This blog collects the stories about my pieces alongside images, both finished an in-progress, of my works. Most recently it details my 2021 work-in-progress Juukan Tears, and my 2020 lock-down project Everything Must Go. It provides a platform for me to share my making and curatorial experiences as well, such as Connexions (2020-2021), and my most recent solo exhibition, Marfa, TX, (2019) at Bilk Gallery in Canberra.
This blog became a research platform for my Raphael prizewinning piece 1.1.2017 (2017-2018). Using online sources I went hunting for each of the guns used on one day of gun violence in the USA. For ten months of Mondays I detailed my findings, and the drawings I made of each of the weapons. Using the drawings I made the piece 1.1.2017 from objects found in each of the towns where the weapons were used to kill. This video captures the project:
Body Politic (2016), was my previous show at Bilk, for which they too host a great archive. The posts on the Escalation series (2013-2020) details some of the works from this show. The aforementioned pages coexist with those showing works made for a whole host of one-off works and limited jewellery series, made for specific exhibitions over the last 12 years.
Below is a sample of my recent works – see Instagram for the very latest images from my studio – both works in progress and finished pieces. Also check out melissacameron.net for my work archive (pre-2013). That site has a copy of my CV, as does this link.
Juukan Tears, work in progress, 2021. Recycled galvinised steel, chrome-plated steel, timber 
10% of the years, work in progress, 2021. Recycled galvinised steel, chrome-plated steel, timber 
Recycled corrugated steel material for the Juukan Tears project, in situ. 2021 
Everything Must Go – rack with neckpieces. 2020 
Everything Must Go – individual neckpieces. 2020 
5811, venn c, 5843b. Steel found in Marfa, TX, stainless steel, 750 gold, vitreous enamel. From the exhibition Marfa, TX, at Bilk Gallery, 2019 
Marfa, TX invitation, 2019. Work: 5807. found steel, vitreous enamel, 750 gold 
5807: 30,18.2138N, 104,1.3102W
From the exhibition Marfa, TX, at Bilk Gallery, 2019
1.1.2017. Found objects, card tags, ink. 2018. as installed at Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh. 
1.1.2017 – as worn by volunteers, 2018 
body/politic – corporate entity/corporeal entity. stainless steel, titanium, vitreous enamel. 2017 
body/politic – corporate entity/corporeal entity. stainless steel, titanium, vitreous enamel. 2017 
fuck_this-president_and_the_regime_he_rode_in_on. Stainless steel, titanium vitreous enamel 2017 
body/politic – social unit.
Stainless steel, titanium vitreous enamel 2017
“Attempts to kill…” 2016. Mexican tortilla pan, vitreous enamel, stainless steel, titanium. 
Escalation – 21st C Caltrop #5 – 2011: AARON PEÑA’s spikes. 2020. Non-stick pie dish, stainless steel. 
AR15 – 154 shells – 60 meters. 2014.
Work from the escalation series
1100 Shot Round (breastplate) and M1 Abrams (neckpiece). 2013. From the Escalation series. 
‘Cannon’ Seven Personnel (neckpiece), 11 RPH Cannon (brooch), From the Escalation series. 
Caltrop, 20C Caltrop and 21C Caltrop. From the Escalation series, 2016 
HEAT – single panel array. 2015. Stainless steel, vitreous enamel, titanium