Michelle House

Discover Michelle House textile artist.

Michelle is a London based artist and designer who has been creating visually striking hand-printed textile artworks for thirty years.

Her artworks have a vibrant use of colour at their core; the layering of colours and shapes creating the illusion of space within lively, abstract compositions.

Summer abstract print

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Photography is prominent in Michelle’s work; snapshots of patterns, shadows and architectural details are combined with areas of bold flat colour in her textile works, as well as in her limited-edition prints and unique collages.

About Michelle

She graduated from Goldsmiths college in the early nineties with a fine art textiles degree and in 1996 was awarded a Crafts Council Setting-Up grant. Further study followed with a digital fine art course, where she discovered how to use Adobe for print and animation, along with an Artists in Education course, resulting in several art residencies within primary schools. She has since planned workshops and taught textile printing to sixth-form students, at the Sackler Centre for Art Education at Dulwich Picture Gallery.

In 2025 she was selected to create new work for Collect Open at Collect Art Fair, Somerset House. Her textile installation ‘Celebrating what Remains – (What you Stole from Me)’ based on her mother and Alzheimer’s – combined her experience and skills in hand-printing textiles and intuitive use of colour with stitch, to create pieces that celebrated and remembered items made by her mother as acts of love for family and home. See the 2025 Collect Art Fair press release here.

Hoop abstract print

“Presented by Crafts Council, Collect is the leading international art fair for contemporary craft and design.” Crafts Council.

Michelle’s work is included in the British Academy’s art collection. The late Sir Nicholas Goodison recommended to the British Academy’s Art Committee that they commission Michelle to make two large wall-hangings to fit alcoves on their main staircase, after having seen her work at Contemporary Applied Arts. Her work now hangs in place as part of their impressive art collection in Carlton House Terrace, St James’, London. Check out her page on their website to find out more about the resulting artworks.

Commissions and collections include – the British Academy, Ham Yard Hotel (Firmdale Hotels), Peter Jones department store (Sloane Square), Broomfield Hospital, Hove Polyclinic (South Downs NHS Trust), Paintings in Hospitals, Davis Polk Wardwell (Paris), Kysen Design, Logica, Myhotel Bloomsbury and a commission for an International Classical Soprano, who asked Michelle to create two unique and full length hand-printed curtains for her London home.

She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including – as one of ten artists selected for Collect Open as part of Collect Art Fair, Somerset House 2025, Collect Art Fair in 2012 at the Saatchi gallery and virtually in 2021, RWA Open, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Folkestone Triennial, London Craft Week, Ruthin Craft Centre, Gallerie Handwerk (Munich) and SOFA Chicago. She is a member of Contemporary Applied Arts, Crafts Council Directory of Makers, Find A Maker and is a Fellow of Design Nation.

Main gallery photo: Iona Wolff

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