Michelle “Mishvania” Beattie
Cape Town, South Africa · grew up in Plettenberg Bay
Biography
As a child in Plettenberg Bay, Michelle Beattie collected small coloured beads on the beach and called them mermaids’ tears. Years later she learned they were nurdles, the raw pellets of the plastic industry. Since 2020 she has made sculptures from plastic she finds on the beaches of Kommetjie and Scarborough near Cape Town. She does not melt or reshape it. The pieces keep the colours and forms the sea gave them.
“If I don’t show you, you will not see,” she says. Her first solo exhibition was in 2024. In 2025 her work was shown in Earth in Orbit in Munich and as Tiny Art on the SPECK Pumpen stand in Barcelona.
Works
4 works. Click a work to look closer.
Coral Blooms, 2024Michelle “Mishvania” BeattieOcean plastic14 × 14 cm
Coral Rehabilitation, 2024Michelle “Mishvania” BeattieOcean plastic22.5 × 53.5 cm
Oh I See, 2024Michelle “Mishvania” BeattieOcean plastic22.5 × 29 cm
The Enchanted Forest, 2024Michelle “Mishvania” BeattieOcean plasticDIN A2 (42 × 59.4)
