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Juukan Tears
Juukan Tears is my largest hand-made installation work to date. Made over 2020 – 2021, it was featured in the John Curtin Gallery as a part of IOTA:21 – the inaugral Indian Ocean Craft Triennial in August-October 2021. The works protests the destruction of the Juukan Shelters, by the global mining giant, Rio Tinto, who…
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Juukan Tears Offcuts / Island Welcome both open tomorrow
If only it could be a double bill, then I could be at both too! Juukan Tears Offcuts opens at Bridget Kennedy Project Space at 53 Ridge St, North Sydney from 2-4pm tomorrow (30.4.22). There will be an artist talk (yup, more of this kind of thing), and chats, and drinks, and contrary to my…
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Juukan Tears – last days to see!
There is but a few short days left to see my work Juukan Tears at the John Curtin Gallery as a part of IOTA21 in Curiosity and Rituals of the Everyday. If you’re not gonna make it (who even travels any more? I can’t – really, I’m in WA and state daddy says no…) I…
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Juukan Tears is up!
Juukan Tears has been launched for nearly a week now, so here’s a few images of the work for those far away and curious. Juukan Tears In May of 2020 mining company Rio Tinto destroyed a site which contained the Juukan Shelters, a place that had been in use by the First Nations traditional custodians…
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Juukan Tears Offcuts
Juukan Tears – Offcuts After using a jewellers saw that is 0.25mm wide to hand saw around 200m of steel, I linked the cut pieces back together again to form a portrait of the headquarters of the biggest iron ore producer in Australia. To make the portrait, and the 4,600 tears that emanated from it,…
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thank you for watching – Juukan Tears update
sigh It has been bittersweet, winding down this project over the last week. I finished making and tearing off decals last Tuesday the 11th of May, after a mammoth effort by Susannah who had started the stripping the previous Friday while I prepped the support board for eventually hanging the work. Then the Friday just…
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Juukan Tears
In May of 2020 mining company Rio Tinto destroyed the Juukan Shelters, containing sacred caves that had been in use by the traditional custodians of that part of (what we now call) Western Australia, the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura (PKKP) peoples, for over 46,000 years. The Shelters were in the remote Pilbara region of…
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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…
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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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Melbourne Design Fair + more
Next month, thanks to Maker&Smith who are headed to Melbourne Design Fair, my works will be exhibited with my dear colleagues and friends Sarah Elson and Eden Lennox. Curated by the National Gallery of Victoria and delivered in collaboration with the Melbourne Art Foundation, Melbourne Design Fair is an annual platform for designers, commercial galleries,…
