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Melanie Sky is a multidisciplinary artist who explores language, care, and resistance through textiles, ceramics, and material-based installations. Her recent work transforms domestic space into a site of protest and reclamation, using expanded crafting processes to expose the subtleties of bias and inequity embedded in everyday life. Rooted in lived experience and a background in painting and socially engaged art, her practice reclaims softness as a form of strength and defiance.
Check out Latest Work –
I Made it Cozy so You’d Feel The Tension
My graduate installation transforms a domestic scene into a site of protest and reclamation. Through textiles, ceramics, and found objects, I explore how everyday materials carry the weight of bias and expectation — turning softness, craft and “too much” into a language of resistance.
Read my published essay –
I Choose the Thread: Feminist Resistance Through Craft
Written during my final year at RMIT, the essay on the making of Hey Bear reflects on the politics of language, care, and creative resistance — exploring how small acts of making and naming can push back against silence.
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