Author: Melissa Cameron

  • Livestream vacation

    It’s another public holiday today in Perth, and after the uber long weekend I’ll still be on holiday (read: working on unrelated projects in the studio) until the 9th, coming back on the 12th of April. Looking forward to seeing you – my beloved livestream devotee(s)- then 😉

  • Submission deadline extended!

    Friends and Supporters of the Uluru Dialogue  The government last week announced they have extended public submissions on a voice to parliament to Friday, 30 April. This gives you four more weeks to voice your support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart and a First Nations Voice to Parliament protected by the Constitution.  Nothing has changed. We…

  • The Uluru Statement needs you!

    For those of you following along, here in Australia we’re getting close to the submission deadline for comment on the Indigenous Voice co-design process, with final submissions due on the 31st of March. From the zoom lecture I attended I found out that the Minister of Indigenous Affairs Ken Wyatt has not sought to push…

  • Livestream up!

    Hey hey viewers. Apologies for the stream being down this morning; there were some technology changes over the weekend which have altered the setup. They have been addressed now so we’re live again here. Thank you for your patience 😉

  • humble apologies

    to anyone who got sent to Twitch instead of YouTube by clicking on my link yesterday, I’m really sorry. I don’t know where the twitch link came from – I had that URL in a draft of one of my posts for a tiny moment, 6 weeks ago! I did make the mistake of copying…

  • Live now!

    We’re taking to ourselves in the studio: https://youtu.be/Zzsu3Q2_bks

  • tomorrow!

    Come chat with me on YouTube for an hour! Live now: https://youtu.be/Zzsu3Q2_bks Details: go to my YouTube channel where you can click on the live-stream and in the chat window type in a question for us to answer. Yes, us! Susannah Kings-Lynne will be there too. 11am at GMT +8, (though the feed will be…

  • Juukan Tears

    Juukan Tears

    In May of 2020 mining company Rio Tinto destroyed the Juukan Shelters, containing sacred caves that had been in use by the traditional custodians of that part of (what we now call) Western Australia, the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura (PKKP) peoples, for over 46,000 years. The Shelters were in the remote Pilbara region of…

  • live-stream q+a

    11am on Friday the 19th of February, Perth time (see below for your timezone) we’re having a live q+a on my YouTube channel about the piece – working title Juukan Tears – that me and my assistant Susannah Kings-Lynne are currently working on in my studio. If you have a question you’d like to put…

  • sawing continues solo

    I’m still live-streaming from the studio Monday – Friday, 9am-ish till 5pmish, minus lunch time. This was to be the first full week of our current routine, in which my colleague Susannah Kings-Lynne joins in the action on Mondays and Fridays for 5 hours per day.* But even before we could begin our uninterrupted week…