Michael Fikaris is an award winning Australian artist working at a practice that includes comics, printmaking, artist books, fine art and mural art. 

Whether creating a small book or a large scale painting, each project is considered an opportunity to connect with people and place.  Be it figurative or abstract work, themes of regeneration and change run throughout the confident and prolific output of this experiential artist. 
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Born in the City of Melbourne and raised in North Queensland, Michael was always encouraged to draw outside. While his art practice has moved through many techniques over the years it still begins most days, outside, with a pencil on paper. For Fikaris, everything begins with drawing. Drawing the natural world and the manufactured world and finding the spaces in-between is what informs many of the motifs seen in their works today.​

Fikaris has shown widely in Australia and undertaken residencies in France, Portugal and Greece. His work is collected in the National Gallery of Victoria (Living Artists Collection), State Library of Victoria (Artists' Books Collection) and National Gallery of Australia (Book Arts Collection). 

Alongside his oeuvre, Fikaris is also an editor, publisher and community arts practitioner, who founded Silent Army Projects.
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'A graphic art guru'  -The Age newspaper ​

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