Artist Bio
Melissa is an Australian artist who works on Whadjuk Noongar land in Boorloo/Perth, and has lived and worked in Naarm/Melbourne and on Duwamish lands in Seattle, USA. Her aesthetic sensibility is influenced by her early studies in computer science and her first career and BFA (hons) in interior architecture (Curtin University, 2001). She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Jewellery Production (Curtin University, 2006) and a jewellery and metalsmithing MFA (Monash University, 2009).
Her practice alternates between meticulously researched socially aware / protest art, and technology / materials-based investigations.
She has works in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the University of Iowa Museum of Art, and Cheongju Collection in South Korea, amongst others, and she has exhibited in the prestigious Schmuck exhibition in Munich. Cameron has received grants and prizes, presented at conferences, attended residencies, and published writings on jewellery and architecture globally.
Artist Statement
Made from recycled steel chain that has been sandblasted and enamelled in red and white, the colours of a STOP sign. When decoded via ascii/binary, the sections of this piece read: “rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable & sustainable future for all – IPCC 2023”
(IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
Year: 2025
Exhibited: Remade-Reloved 2025
detail – rapidlyclosingwindow… #9, 2025, mild steel, vitreous enamel, 75 long chain x 10cm x 1cm
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Artist Bio
Melissa is an Australian artist who works on Whadjuk Noongar land in Boorloo/Perth, and has lived and worked in Naarm/Melbourne and on Duwamish lands in Seattle, USA. Her aesthetic sensibility is influenced by her early studies in computer science and her first career and BFA (hons) in interior architecture (Curtin University, 2001). She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Jewellery Production (Curtin University, 2006) and a jewellery and metalsmithing MFA (Monash University, 2009).
Her practice alternates between meticulously researched socially aware / protest art, and technology / materials-based investigations.
She has works in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the University of Iowa Museum of Art, and Cheongju Collection in South Korea, amongst others, and she has exhibited in the prestigious Schmuck exhibition in Munich. Cameron has received grants and prizes, presented at conferences, attended residencies, and published writings on jewellery and architecture globally.
Artist Statement
Made from recycled steel chain that has been sandblasted and enamelled in red and white, the colours of a STOP sign. When decoded via ascii/binary, the sections of this piece read: “rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable & sustainable future for all – IPCC 2023”
(IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
Year: 2025
Exhibited: Remade-Reloved 2025
detail – rapidlyclosingwindow… #9, 2025, mild steel, vitreous enamel, 75 long chain x 10cm x 1cm
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