Michelle Baharier, is an acclaimed award wining graduate of The Slade School of Fine Art, London, she exhibits her work internationally. A multidisciplinary visual artist whose artistic practice is strongly influenced by her lived experience of disability, resulting in paintings and participatory art/performative events, inclusive to all. Her oeuvre includes colourful and expressive paintings, portraits, collages, poetry photography, phone-drawings storytelling-performance and digital/video. She aims to break down barriers concrete and spiritual faced by people, explores our hearts not a head response to the world around us, with a view to advance equal rights.

Baharier’s awards include: Arts council England, Responsa Foundation, Equality Works, and others for her work. She is an artist member of: The Bethlem Gallery, Artists collective, The Bookery Gallerie, The sharp Gallery, She is a member of the IN/Visible Disabled Women's Arts Collective, South London Women artists, Outside-in and is a blogger for Disability Arts on line. Her Published poetry is available in the poetry Library

Baharier is a trailblazer, she has Dyslexia/Neurodiversity. She Founded the Charity CoolTan Arts, run by and for disabled people. During her tenure from 1993 – 2016, she won twenty -seven prestigious awards, demonstrating her commitment to changing barriers and discrimination.

Currently she is currently commissioned by the London Transport Museum and Tuff gallery. She has won an award with AXIS Arts in April 2024. Her work is held in a number of public institutions collections.

''As an artist, I love what I do, My work is emotionally charged, energetic and I inspired by the diverse tapestry of my experience as a women, with invisible disabilities who needs to knock down barriers to participation. My work often deals with challenging social issues, such as prejudices about disabilities and mental health, my life is informed by my own invisible disabilities.
I do this by using a variety of mediums and techniques, including storytelling, to invite viewers to explore the depths of emotion, and the essence of being. My powerful paintings are vibrant, my photography, is atmospheric, sometimes haunting and evocative, my performance’s are visceral and may engage participation, my collage’s and drawings are often spontaneous, my intention is to create a dialogue between the viewer, igniting there imagination, and arousing subconscious and connection to their emotions.
Drawing from personal experiences and the world around me, my art becomes a vessel for creating mythology, and introducing activism and change, I paint portraits of unknown people who do extraordinary things and I take photographs of the world around and write poems of my everyday life.
Ultimately, my goal as an artist is to spark curiosity, foster empathy, open up conversations and transcend barriers, serving as a catalyst for transformation and positive change.''