Melissa Cameron
  • 1.1.2017 or Monday – Gun Day
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  • Hi, I’m Melissa
  • Enamel on Steel – insights
  • MDC
  • Conference Papers
    • Holistic Thinking: Interconnectivity In Jewels And Practice
    • How to become an artist jeweller: a Seattle community case study
    • Examining the connections between architecture and jewellery: Looking into the last 100 years to inform a vision of jewellery practice in the future
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  • Part B
  • Everthing Must Go, 2020

    This was a really fun one to make. The rack was an artifact of the capitalist system, made obsolete. I resented its presence on my street, yet I suppose I also felt sorry for it. And I sensed its opportunity. What can I say, I can’t hold myself out of this system. The logic for […]

    September 4, 2020
  • going, going, go…

    Progress images of the apple green rack being eaten/improved.

    September 2, 2020
  • The Neck – Craft ACT

    Hiya team. Apologies for that last cryptic post – with bonus secret password window – on the main blog stream. I feel like a right fool but now the url is attached to an application I can’t change it until adjudication finishes. If it’s any consolation most of the content was taken from last year’s […]

    June 7, 2021
  • What would you do with an apple green sales rack that had clearly seen better days?

    Well here’s what I’d do. I’d take a photo of it as if it was a museum-destined object, measure and record its vitals as if it were a patient on a guerney with cascading symptoms, then start the remodel like it was a kitchen with asbestos linoleum floors – carefully. And so I went, layer […]

    September 1, 2020
  • A/US opens this week

    As a part of this show I’d like to introduce a new work: Everything Must Go. I found this green sales rack back in March, as I was heading to my local cafe to have lunch with a friend, which turned out to be our last lunch before lockdown. I remember talking to her about […]

    August 31, 2020
  • Highlights

    This blog charts the research, process and outcomes of my artistic practice. 2021 – 2022 Juukan Tears The image below is of Juukan Tears, a piece commissioned for the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial (IOTA:21) in Perth in 2021, which will soon to go on display as a finalist of the North Sydney Art Prize. Clock […]

    February 25, 2014
  • Holistic Thinking: Interconnectivity In Jewels And Practice

    Holistic Thinking: Interconnectivity In Jewels And Practice, was presented at the 2016 SNAGnext conference, in Asheville, North Carolina on the 19th of May, 2016. This paper was my response to the SNAGnext theme of: Wellness and Holistic Practices – Exploring the importance of living a well rounded life to stay healthy emotionally, physically and creatively as a […]

    September 17, 2016
  • Interview on Klimt02

    Klimt02 came over to my house/studio for a chat in August. It was lovely talking to Sanna and the photographs by Jonas are great

    November 4, 2014
  • MDC

    The Monthly Deadlines Calendar was a project that I embarked upon for a few years, concluding at the end of 2015. It’s included here for archive purposes. Update: September 2016 Check out Alliages – The contemporary art jewelery agenda for more deadlines, as well as info about openings, events etc. Also you can add your […]

    October 29, 2013
  • Deadlines September 2013

    Fresh deadlines. Get ’em here!

    September 19, 2013
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Melissa Cameron

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I live and work on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar.

I acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands, waters and seas where I live and work. I pay my respects to their Elders and to all Traditional Owners/Custodians and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

Melissa Cameron is an artist, jeweller, writer, designer and former resident alien. She moved back to her hometown Perth, Western Australia in 2018, where it smells of eucalyptus.

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