Critical Distance DIRECTORY Michelle Wilson

Michelle Wilson is a queer, neurodivergent artist and mother living as an uninvited guest in Guelph, Ontario. Her practice approaches artistic collaboration as a form of anti-colonial care work. Rather than centring the myth of the individual artist, she works through enmeshed networks—creating conditions for many hands, stories, and ways of knowing to gather through shared creation.

She is a founding member of the Coves Collective and the Unsettling Conservation Collective. Working across textile, ceramics, and new media, her projects explore relationality, land, memory, and collective responsibility. She is currently an Assistant Professor teaching in the School of Fine Art and Music and in the Bachelor of Creative Arts, Health & Wellness program at the University of Guelph.