I am very interested to hear from anyone who has flown or is interested in flying in a MiG jet fighter. Please email me at:

dreamsofflyingmigs@gmail.com

Biographical Information

Michelle Atherton is an artist and lecturer whose artwork explores the way we move and are moved within our everyday life.  She quite literally uses different transport systems as case studies for investigating contemporary concerns, preoccupations and obsessions, (that are often taken for granted), as a means to talk about the complexities of relationships and their representation.  Most recent exhibitions include Cancelled: One in a series, Whitstable Biennale Satellite Programme (2008), Missed the Boat II, Dagmar de Pooter Gallery, Antwerp and Linnagalleri, Tallinn Estonia (2006-7).  She is currently researching the role of humour in contemporary art practice and working on the project Dreams of Flying, supported by the AHRC, researching what is considered, or at least marketed as, one of the ultimate flying experiences of the C21st, taking a ride in a fourth generation military jet fighter. 

Michelle Atherton teaches Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University.