Michael Eather
Michael Eather is a contemporary Australian artist, based in Brisbane who helped found the Campfire Group, a significant cross-cultural artistic collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists.
Eather grew up and was educated in Tasmania. Following his graduation from the Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1983, he spent time in the indigenous community of Maningrida, which became the starting point for decades of inter-cultural artistic collaboration.
