Spotlight

Current CV
2023

Current research includes:

1/ collaborating with architect leads vittinoAshe alongside Brendan Moore (Southwest Aboriginal Land and Sea Council) and Syrinx for an artwork as part of the upcoming Fremantle Biennial Pavilion.

2/ the generation, creation and installation of a public artwork for Murdoch Square, to be delivered later this year.

2021 – 2022

New jewellery works:

L-R Remade-Reloved, remade recycled jewellery; pixel rings; already taken, 2022. Made from a collected part of the Rabbit Proof Fence, as shown in the exhibition Island Welcome.

Above are works made in 2022 for the curated exhibitions Island Welcome and Remade-Reloved, and a collection of rings made for my annual studio party.

Juukan Tears

The image below is of Juukan Tears, a piece commissioned for the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial (IOTA:21) in Perth in 2021. In 2022 it was finalist in the North Sydney Art Prize, and was on display at the Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability in North Sydney in May 2022.

Juukan Tears, 2021. Recycled roofing steel (from the artist’s own back shed) chromed steel chain.
2.6m long 4m tall, 5cm wide

I have made multiple posts on this blog about the design and making of this work, including an artist statement.

Juukan Tears Offcuts, 2021 – 2022. Recycled steel (from the artist shed) stainless steel.

Juukan Tears Offcuts (a limited series made with the fabrication remnants of Juukan Tears) was again a touring companion for the larger work in Sydney, in 2022, while in 2021 Garland Magazine asked me to write about the series.

2019 – 2020

Everything Must Go; Marfa, TX; Connexions

Everything Must Go, 2020. Found steel rack, stainless steel chain links, card, mdf. Green rack found discarded on my street, March 2020.

I detailed my 2020 lock-down project Everything Must Go on this platform, and a recent solo exhibition at Bilk Gallery, Marfa, TX, (2019). Also documented are my curatorial experiences, including as Connexions (2020-2021).

2017-2018

Winner – Raphael Prize

Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh

I use this blog as a research platform. It contains dozens of posts written as background to my Raphael prizewinning piece 1.1.2017 (2017-2018). Using online sources I researched each of the guns used on one day of gun violence in the USA. For ten months of Mondays I detailed my findings, and my drawings of the weapons. I then paired the drawings with objects found in each of the towns where the weapons were used to kill, to make the piece 1.1.2017. This short film captures the project:

2013 – 2016

Body Politic / Escalation Series

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) detail 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 13 years.

1200 Shot Round (breastplate), 11 RPH Cannon (brooch). Both 2013. Left – non-slip pan, stainless steel cable. Right, Japanese vintage lacquer ware, patinated copper, cotton cord.
Collection of the National Gallery of Australia.

Gallery

This is a blog that has been maintained since 2010 with hundreds of images among the posts. Instagram also has images from my studio – including in-progress and finished pieces. I maintain a profile on Klimt02, and my website melissacameron.net is currently an archive of work pre-2014.