Michèle Oberdieck

Inspired by natural forms and organic structures, Michèle Oberdieck explores balance and asymmetry through shape, surface and color. She often creates pieces to work in pairs and uses sculptural form as a gesture or expression. Her work has been influenced by American Abstract expressionists such as Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler, and the soft forms of Jean Arp’s sculptures.

Michelle is drawn to biomorphic shapes found in floral growth and decay, drawing inspiration from the delicate forms the petals take as they complete their life cycle. These beautifully twisted organic shapes reveal the motion of time and a transformation she aims to capture in glass. Color also plays an important role in Oberdieck’s work, with her past practices in printmaking and textile translating to her work with glass. This medium allows her to express the delicate nature of color and its interaction with light, reflecting things such as the shifting of colors in the sky as day turns to dusk. Colour and form evolve together in these glass works. The free tonal movement of color flows within the glass creating cascades of reflection.

Previously  studying textile design at Glasgow School of Art, she ran a successful printed textile practice for several years based at the Oxo Tower, London. She received an MA in Glass at the Royal College of Art in 2016.