Matilda Michell graduated from the National Art School in 2009. She specialises in classical oil painting techniques and has won a number of prizes and residencies including the Waterhouse Art Prize, the Glebe Art Prize, the Waverley Art Prize and the Pata Paris Studio Residency. She was the recipient of a William Fletcher Foundation grant and has been highly commended in the John Olsen Prize for figure drawing and the Arthur Le Gay Brereton Draughtsmanship Award. Matilda has exhibited in both Australia and Ireland and has been shortlisted in a wide range of prestigious Australian Prizes.