Author: Melissa Cameron

  • Something for the ear

    Something for the ear

    Thanks as always to the generous Bilk team for another sterling opportunity: Something for the ear 19 August – 16 September 2023 This is one of our favourite exhibitions to hold in the gallery and originally the idea resulted from a conversation we had about this wonderful form of adornment and the frustrated response to…

  • now showing + upcoming

    now showing  + upcoming

    I have a new two-part stainless-and-titanium work, Inside, Outside now on show as a part of the Wanneroo Community Art Awards 2023. Community Art Awards & Exhibition 2023Open to the public from 7 June 10am When: Wednesday 7 June 2023 to Saturday 12 August 2023 Time: 10am to 4pm Wed – Sat (closed Sunday and…

  • Can you collect?

    Can you collect?

    Perth + Melbourne, can you help? I’m working towards a new work and I’m on the hunt for two specific recycled materials: all as pictured above. I’m seeking hundreds of both lids and bristles, so it would mean a HUGE amount to me if you were to keep your eyes peeled and pick up either…

  • Melbourne Design Fair + more

    Melbourne Design Fair + more

    Next month, thanks to Maker&Smith who are headed to Melbourne Design Fair, my works will be exhibited with my dear colleagues and friends Sarah Elson and Eden Lennox. Curated by the National Gallery of Victoria and delivered in collaboration with the Melbourne Art Foundation, Melbourne Design Fair is an annual platform for designers, commercial galleries,…

  • Public Artwork

    If it’s on the internet, it must be true, right? Hesperia is pleased to announce Melissa Cameron; Rohin Kickett and Matthew McVeigh; and Anne Neil as the artists commissioned to create a series of public artworks at Murdoch Square. Following an extensive Expression of Interest (EOI) campaign, the four Australian artists were carefully selected to…

  • 19th Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia national biennial conference – call for papers + workshops

    Have you heard?? The Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia invite expressions of interest for the 2024 conference in Perth, Western Australia. The JMGA have convened biennially since 1980 to celebrate, educate and showcase contemporary jewellery in the region. The theme; “Involution: Making Jewellery, Creating Change” captures the entangled pushing and pulling of organisms constantly…

  • Annual Studio Sale

    Annual Studio Sale

    Yes, it’s that time again. If your feasting and shopping are going well, maybe you have a moment to stop in? Though perhaps, more importantly, if they are going poorly, you should stop by and be refreshed and rewarded by your visit. Join me in December on:Friday the 16th, 11am – 5pmSaturday the 17th, 11am…

  • Remade-Reloved, preview

    Remade-Reloved, preview

    This is not a work; this was a photo I took as a study for a work. In the end I lost the knot (unintentionally, damn!) but it precipitated something a bit more involved, using these two ingredients. Stay tuned – or better yet – head to Bridget Kennedy Project Space for the Remade-Reloved exhibition…

  • Remade-Reloved

    ‘Remade-Reloved’ is a group exhibition curated by Bridget Kennedy that opens next week at her studio/gallery in North Sydney. And for those of you not in the know, it will be one of the last shows at the Bridget Kennedy Project Space, as Bridget is going to be closing down the gallery next March, after…

  • LOBES at Danaca in Seattle

    LOBES at Danaca in Seattle

    LOBES – it has meaning Dana at Danaca Design announced her intention to have a holiday earring show with local Seattle makers back in October (while I happened to be visiting the town I called home for 6.5 years for the first time since I left in 2018), and I immediately jumped on the bandwagon.…