-
Circularity Collaboration
I’m heading out to the Makerspace at Curtin Heritage soon for the first of three sessions (the first of two open to the general public) to make rapidlyclosingwindow… #8 The two days open to the public are: Wednesday the 11th of June, 10:00am – 12:pm, Makerspace @ Curtin Heritage Monday the 16th of June, 10:00am…
-
The Poetics of Place II
From the Atta Gallery website: Poetics of Place ll by Australian Artists, Curated by Melinda Young May 15, 2025 – July 13, 2025 The Poetics of Place brings together the work of 16 makers across contemporary craft, object-based and textile practices whose work explores, expands and troubles the concept of ‘place’ in post-colonial Australia and Aotearoa.…
-
Workshop – this Saturday!
Want to learn the basic skills for turning recycled copper into wearable art? Come to the workshop this Saturday at Rockingham Arts Centre, where you can see what I’ve done with recycled objects (conveniently, I have a show in the other room 😉 ) and learn to make your own jewellery or wall art using…
-
PINS & POSTERS – Against the normalization of rightwing ideology
This show opened at the FRONT ROOM gallery of Julia Walter in Amsterdam this Saturday just passed – May 03 2025, 14:00 – 18:00 – and continues on until the 15th of June. From Julia’s statement: Unity against threats from the extreme right is timelessly relevant, internationally. Current developments in the world make clear: the normalization of rightwing…
-
Banner and Badge at RAC
The City of Rockingham invites you to attend Banner and Badge by Melissa CameronExhibition Opening and Artist Talk Guest speaker Jess Boyce from WA Forest Alliance to be held onSaturday 3 May 2025from 4pm-6pm at Rockingham Arts Centre11 Kent Street, RockinghamLight refreshments will be provided.Please RSVP by Wednesday 30 April 2025. Exhibition informationExhibition Catalogue
-
Workshop opportunity!
G’day Rockingham and Rockingham adjacent craft aficionados. I’m bringing my wagon to town, and I want to invite y’all to come play with many, many meters of copper wire and some other intriguing bits and bobs. It’s gonna be fun! — Are you the magpie always finding bits of rusty steel on the street? Do…
-
DAS VERTRAUTE IM FREMDEN – THE FAMILIAR IN THE FOREIGN
Schmuck der Südlichen Hemisphäre / Jewellery from the Southern Hemisphere Galerie Handwerk – opening 12. März 2025, 19 Uhr / 12 March 2025, 7pm Max-Joseph-Straße 4, Eingang Ottostraße, 80333 München From the Galerie Handwerk flyer: We are celebrating ‘Southern Hemisphere Spring’ in Munich! Parallel to the major retrospective of the New Zealand jewellery artist Warwick…
-
horizons II
Part one was of the big vessels, like the ones that loom above Wadjemup lurking about Gage Roads. This time we’re going to talk about the kinds of events that are STILL BIG, but require a little less Melissa participation. Bilk Reset. I have a deep love and so much gratitude for Helen, Mio and…
-
On the horizon…
It may look like a clean slate, but it’s the incoming traffic just above the horizon line that’s widening eyes and setting my little duck-legs to paddlin’. March: Heading to Munich for the jewellery-obsessive’s most favoured/feared hang, Munich Jewellery Week. No, I’m not in the IHM’s one and only Schmuck exhibition this year (but great…
-
Make it Chain!
To my lovely locavore jewellery aficionados, You are invited to my annual open studio event. This year I’m dedicating a spot in the studio to a chain-making station. Everyone (especially any smaller associates) is welcome to don an apron and make some recycled metal chain, in steel or copper, and with some plastic thrown in.…
