{"id":8760,"date":"2021-06-07T17:16:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T07:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=8760"},"modified":"2021-06-07T17:17:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T07:17:36","slug":"the-neck-craft-act-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=8760","title":{"rendered":"The Neck – Craft ACT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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 Everything Must Go<\/a><\/em>, with images taken from yet another post to bulk it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And to placate my own ego let me mention that I had managed to add an entire new section to the Works\/CV<\/a> page a little while ago without anyone noticing \ud83d\ude09 That was in lieu of smartening up my website (I’ve given up promising a date for that; soon, just soon) for another application. In that case I was not successful (asking a mining company for funds to protest another mining company was probably seen more as trolling than as a unique artistic concept) but at least the work I did is useful longer-term as an introduction to my current practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re new around these parts why not check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in other news, a recent Craft ACT emailer used my image to promote The Neck<\/em>, a show I have a work in at the moment. I’ll post their text in full below. I’ll soon be in another show just outside Canberra, thanks to Bilk<\/a>. More news on that soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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resilience, 2016. flattened firearm, steel chain. melissa cameron.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Neck \/\/<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy the works<\/a> \/ Catalogue<\/a> \/ Video tour<\/a> \/ Artist biographies + statements<\/a> \/ Essay<\/a> \/ Photo gallery<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vivien Atkinson | Roseanne Bartley | Macarena Bernal | Vernon Bowden | Zoe Brand | Melissa Cameron | Anna Davern |  Pennie Jagiello | Cara Johnson | Bridget Kennedy | Claire McArdle | Melinda Young<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curator Bridget Kennedy <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The neck, often seen as a sensual part of the body, a site of vulnerability, is also a site of strength, supporting the heavy head, a conduit to our heart and lungs, providing life giving oxygen to our bodies, and nourishment through the ingestion of food. At a time when our planet and humanity seems to be suffocating on many fronts, strangled by powerful, self serving \u2018leaders\u2019, Bridget Kennedy invites selected artists to explore the neck as a vehicle for political, social, and environmental critique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vivien Atkinson is represented by Avid Gallery, Wellington. Melissa Cameron is represented by Bilk Gallery, Canberra.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,113,112,111,58,96,107,53],"tags":[143,142,144,141,4],"class_list":["post-8760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-competitions","category-dialogue","category-exhibition","category-galleries-2","category-housekeeping","category-jewellery","category-objects","tag-australia","tag-bilk-gallery","tag-blogging","tag-craft","tag-jewellery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8761,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8760\/revisions\/8761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}