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Banner + Badge – New Website!
The decade-long wait for new content on my main website is over! There are not enough emoji to convey the effort expended, and the gratitude and relief to have it up and out in the world. https://www.melissacameron.net/exhibition/banner_and_badge/ You just gotta see it for yourself 😉 Before I get into that, and the show, I need…
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Call me Ed. Guest Ed.
Thanks to the illustrious Dr Kevin Murray, I’m the guest editor for this quarter’s issue of Garland – The Street. I have also written an article about the collaborative making and adorning of the Er Pavilion for the Fremantle Biennale for the issue. The best part of being guest editor? Connecting with the stories of…
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Can you collect?
Perth + Melbourne, can you help? I’m working towards a new work and I’m on the hunt for two specific recycled materials: all as pictured above. I’m seeking hundreds of both lids and bristles, so it would mean a HUGE amount to me if you were to keep your eyes peeled and pick up either…
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Remade-Reloved
‘Remade-Reloved’ is a group exhibition curated by Bridget Kennedy that opens next week at her studio/gallery in North Sydney. And for those of you not in the know, it will be one of the last shows at the Bridget Kennedy Project Space, as Bridget is going to be closing down the gallery next March, after…
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IOTA:24
The Indian Ocean Triennial Australia – otherwise known as the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial owing to its craft focus – is already in the planning stages for the 2024 edition. As an artist I was heavily involved in the last one – my piece Juukan Tears was in one of the keystone exhibits, and the…
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My article in Autor 2022
I forgot to mention, I wrote an article! I kinda did it by accident (longtime readers may remember the story, but I never revealed the piece before) when Autor magazine asked for photos and comments about ‘failure’. I cribbed from my blog post, did a rewrite to include thoughts that have come to me in…
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Edith Cowan commemorative pin featured in WA Parliament
Welcome dear friends, to a picture of me posing with several WA Politicians, in the WA Parliament foyer. Obviously fans of the WA parliament will have already seen this collage pop up in their FB feed but at the risk of boring those people I’ve screen cap’d it to share with y’all (in other words,…
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Island Welcome in Perth/ North Sydney Art Prize
I’m pleased and proud to say that Juukan Tears has been named as a finalist in the North Sydney Art Prize. The opening and prize ceremony will be on the 14th of May at the Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability in North Sydney, and at the same time and in the same ‘hood I’ll be…
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Garland Magazine
I had a piece published last month in Garland Magazine’s 25th issue Craft Currencies – Value is in our own hands. Editor Dr Kevin Murray saw the work and asked me to write about the series Juukan Tears Offcuts that I made last year, through the lens of high/low, rich/poor, gallery/gift shop craft. It is…
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Juukan Caves Anniversary / Virtual Indigenous Film Fest 2021
Yesterday marks 1 year since the destruction of the Juukan Shelters, a traditional site of the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinnikura (PKKP) peoples located in the Pilbara area in the northwest of Western Australia. If you’ve been following this blog for the last few months you’ll know that I have made the facts of that…
