Biography
Melissa Cameron is from Perth and holds a BA in Interior Architecture and a Postgraduate Diploma in Jewellery Production from Curtin University. She received her MFA in Jewellery and Metalsmithing from Monash University, and moved from Melbourne to Seattle in 2012, returning to Perth in 2018.
She has exhibited extensively, with solo exhibitions in Australia and Japan. Her works appear in public collections including the NGA, the University of Iowa Museum of Art and the Cheongju Collection in South Korea.
She has had residencies in the UK, Germany and the US, received a Fellowship from Artist Trust in Seattle and grants from the Australia Council. She has presented papers at conferences and symposia in Australia, Europe and North America. Her writing appears on Art Jewely Forum and she is the former chair of Metalsmith Magazine's Editorial Advisory Committee
Awards
2018
The Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize
Juried exhibition winner, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PS, USA
2017
Judges Choice Award
Itami International Craft Exhibition, Itami Museum of Arts and Crafts
Collections
University of Iowa Museum of Art, USA
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Cheongju Collection, Cheongju, South Korea
Publications
2018
New Brooches
Nicolas Estrada. Pomopress
2018
1st Annual Jewelry and Metals Survey
Society of North American Goldsmiths
2017
Narrative Jewelry: tales from the toolbox
Ed. Mark Fenn. Schiffer Publishing
Residencies
2018
Smitten Forum - jewellers residency
Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, USA
2016
Shared Concerns
Winter Residency at Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina, USA
2014
Kuenstlerwerkstaetten
Erfurt, Germany with other artists in the exhibition Heat Exchange 2