Opening Night I Friday the 6th of January
Show Running Until I Wednesday the 18th of January
Melanie Sky is a multidisciplinary emerging artist living on Dja Dja Warrung country in Maldon, Victoria, Australia. She follows the inspiration of the landscape in her surroundings while exploring her strong passion for art and colour. Her work aims to bring you joy, movement, and energy of bold colour, shape, and texture.
‘Wild Country’, explores the dangerous beauty in the Australian landscape through texture, space, shapes, and colour. The collection draws inspiration from personal lived and visual experiences with the diverse and extreme Australian landscape.
Unstableand egregious weather events corrode the fragile landscape and push the flora and fauna to the tipping point, it's too much, too often. Each work references an extremely dangerous event of either fire, flood, drought, or the beautiful yet hazardous aftermath of rejuvenation.
The collection considers the complexities of displacement, death, and destruction of life affected by these natural events. Drawing on aerial photography and imagination the compositions of the paintings utilise a range of colour, shapes, and textures as a way for the viewer to move through the work and the exhibition.
