Melissa Spratt

Melissa Spratt (she/her) works primarily in fibre-based art with her practice extending to various mediums including painting, photography, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and installation. However she is most known for her finger-knitting techniques where her work is concerned with immediacy and attunement to sensations. She reflects on our sensitivity to an ever-changing environment and her own inner feelings and contemplations.

Spratt has won and been a finalist in numerous awards and prizes, more recently a finalist in the 2022 Wollumbin Art Award, and BAM Art Prize. She also facilitates workshops for festivals, galleries, libraries and schools. Spratt was the 2018 invited AiR at The Walls Art Space in Miami, where she had a solo exhibition titled ‘Essential Existence’. In 2019 Melissa was AiR at 11th Ave Creative in Palm Beach and was the first AiR at Relative Creative, where she collaborated on work for ‘Gold Coast City Futures Forum’.

After success at The Other Art Fair Melbourne, Melissa was given a place at The Other Art Fair Sydney, where she was listed in the ‘Top 20 artists to watch’. Spratt has been successful in several grants, including a RADF (Regional Arts Development Fund) project which was completed in 2021 ti...

2018 - 2019 Completion
TAE40116 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment

2016 - 2016 Graduate
Diploma of Education, Visual Arts, Classroom and Behaviour Management. Queensland University of Technology. 22 day practicum at Varsity College. 33 day practicum at Marymount College

2015 - July to August
Leeds International Summer School. University of Leeds, UK. Modules; ‘The English Country House’ and ‘Entrepreneurship and Society’.

2015 - 2015 Graduate
Bachelor of Digital Media, Honours. Griffith University, Major in Fine Art/Studio Art. II Class Honours.

2012 - 2014 Graduate
Bachelor of Digital Media. Griffith University, Major in Fine Art/Studio Art.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 ‘SENSITISED & SENTIMENAL’ September to November. Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, Murwillumbah, NSW
2022 ‘SENSITISED’ March — Level Up Shop Front Gallery, Coolangatta, Gold Coast, QLD
2021 ‘SENSITISED’ August — RADF body of work and documentary film, Kirra Hill Art Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD
2020 ’New Felt Panic’ @new_felt_panic - Online Instagram Exhibition
2019 October 25-27 ‘Gold Coast City Futures Forum’ accompanying exhibition, The Walls Art Space, Miami Gold Coast, Australia
2015 - 2016 ‘Melissa Spratt’, The Arts Centre, Gold Coast, Australia
2018 August ‘Essential Existence’, The Walls Art Space, Miami Gold Coast, Australia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 ‘Just for Fun’ Group show at 3/3 Studio, Surfers Paradise
2023 Surface Festival 100/100 Exhibition and Fence Line, Miami QLD
2022 Surface Festival 100/100 Exhibition and Fence Line, Miami QLD
2022 Finders Keepers Brisbane stall holder debut, Brisbane Exhibition Centre, QLD
2022 ‘Supercut’ Online Exhibition (Project 2) with Outerspace Brisbane, QLD
2021 ‘Untitled 2021’ Traffic Jam Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2020 CO-VIDEO video work group screening via @thefield.mbah
2020 Pop up exhibition, 1 of 12 out of 140 artists TOAF at Westfield Pitt Street ...