Louella Michael is a Meanjin (Brisbane) based artist working primarily with interactive and kinetic sculpture. Michael works at the intersection between craft, art and technology, exploring how the virtual has fractured and reframed our understanding and interactions with space, self and community. In an attempt to understand the alienating fast-paced hyper-connection of today, she intentionally over-invests time and labour in highly saturated digital forms to connect more deeply with that which often passes us by. In recent projects Michael has drawn on craft and textile associations of care and community, her processes emphasise slowness and physical presence, resituating and grounding the importance of connection offline. Tensions between slow and fast in process and material are stretched further in her installation choices that sterilise and constrain the softness of textile forms.

In 2024 Michael founded The Noticeboard, an online guide and archive focusing on independent and emerging creative activity in Magandjin. In 2025 Michael worked at Flying Arts Alliance as the Program and Exhibitions Manager where she managed two touring exhibitions, delivered nine exhibitions in Brisbane, and managed a broad program of in-person and online workshops, webinars and mentorship consultations.  all working to develop and platform regional artists across the state. 

Michael graduated with a Bachelor of fine Art (Visual Art) from QUT with distinction at the end of 2023 and was awarded the Metro Arts Substation Workshop prize.