A woman with pink hair, glasses, wearing a white T-shirt with a watermelon graphic, jeans, yellow socks, and pink Crocs, sitting in a motorized wheelchair, smiling and laughing in a decorated room with a wall hanging that says 'You brought your' and a purple unicorn made of fabric and ribbons.

Image by Zahra ODea

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.

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Decorated corner with a light blue tulle skirted table holding shell decor and a small lamp; wall adornments include paper fish, a clock, and a banner reading 'You thought you was, I thought meander'.

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.

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Graffiti wall with a red banner that reads "I CHOOSE THE B E A R" in yellow letters, surrounded by colorful street art and a metal fence.

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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View fullsize Today I graduated Bachelor of Fine Art (with distinction) @rmit_art 🎓 This comes 25 years after I finished high school and carries the weight of time, persistence, and navigating a system that wasn’t built with people like me. When I started
View fullsize Before graduation, I’m thinking about the work that shifted everything — “Hey Bear” and the essay that followed. My essay “I Choose the Thread: Feminist Resistance Through Craft” was selected for publication as pa
View fullsize If white is the colour of the year, then I guess I’m out of season and proud of it. 🌈 In a world that keeps trying to wash everything white, I choose colour. ALWAYS. Colour is resistance. Colour is memory. Colour is joy.
View fullsize Trans Awareness Week feels different this year… After a series of transphobic events on campus, the students protested, and the School of Art announced, ‘There are real battles to stage, and they are not in art school.’ My new art
View fullsize All set up and ready for grad show. Who is coming to check it out? RMIT city campus - my work is in building 2 level 3! Access via Rodda lane and Bowen st, off La Trobe st. Opening Night 18 November 2025 5–8pm Exhibition Hours: 19 November
View fullsize Next stop Grad show. Save the date to come along and see a collection of my final pieces including … ‘A Seat at the Table’ - eight tiny protest chairs for everyone who’s ever been told to sit down, calm down, or make do. Glaz
View fullsize After three years, countless stitches and cups of tea — my final assessment is installed… I Made It Cozy So You’d Feel the Tension. Born from a conversation in the first year of my degree that exhibited patriarchal bias, the insta
View fullsize Update on what’s been happening on campus… After my last post, all posters and what the university labelled as “graffiti” calling out the ongoing transphobia were removed. Staff then asked us to “wear trans colours and
View fullsize Edited for Accuracy (2025), Ink on paper, 21 x 30 cm This work responds to the language used by School of Art staff towards students calling out transphobia. The original staff notice framed protest as aggression and presented the situation as a mut
View fullsize Stitching away in my studio @rmit_art only a few weeks left and I’ll be finished my degree 🎀 “You brought your bias, I brought my needles” 🪡
View fullsize Two artworks accidentally interacting in my studio @rmit_art 🐻🪞
View fullsize It’s only the second week back at uni and we have pulled together a huge group show of the whole third year cohort, featuring some of teaching and tech staff 💪 Here is a little snippet of my work ⏰ with the wonderful @ruth_o.leary and @saraja
View fullsize There is nothing else to say 🐻
View fullsize Oops, It’s been a red hot minute between posts but this one is a goodie. Semester 1 of the last year in my fine art degree is done and dusted. Here is a little taste of what I’ve been working on… Taking on bias with craft 🎀 More o
View fullsize The walls of @portia_and_co have had a refresh of my artworks with these four now available. Can’t get to Maldon in person? Shipping is available. Get in touch with Rebecca for more info.
View fullsize 2024 is done and dusted. Thinking about it I didn’t do much… I made some art, exhibited some art, saw some art exhibitions, went to uni to study art, hung out with my arty friends, and other art related things… Looking forward to
View fullsize My first double sided painting combines silk and earthenware to explore themes of memory and place. Definitely a contender for favourite piece made in 2024 🫶
View fullsize Two down, one to go 💪 Bring on 2025, I just need a lot of sleep first. Thanks to my gal Z for my traditional end of semester snap ✨ @zahra_o.slay

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