Michael Simms is a multi-award-winning queer interdisciplinary artist based in Sydney on Gadigal Country. His practice centres on the human body and queer identity, using painting, drawing, and cross-disciplinary collaboration to examine masculinity, intimacy, and embodiment in the digital age. Drawing on European classical techniques and art-historical traditions of portraiture and the nude, his work challenges inherited framings of the figure by foregrounding vulnerability and desire. Simms holds a psychology degree and studied at the Julian Ashton Art School on scholarship. He is the recipient of the Royal Art Society of NSW Young Artist Prize, has been shortlisted for major awards including the Archibald Prize, and has undertaken residencies at Bundanon and the New York Academy of Art. He is represented by Eloise Cato Gallery in Sydney and Flinders Lane Gallery in Melbourne.