Melanie Sky

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 the joy, movement, and energy of bold colour, shape, and texture.

As a child growing up in coastal NSW, she enjoyed being surrounded by dance, music, colour, and creativity. She has always felt a subtle energetic connection with the Australian environment, and now explores this relationship with the land, love of movement, and the interplay of nature and colour through my works.

Melanie's work starts with being on country and photographing the landscape both at ground level and from the sky with a drone. Once back in the studio she uses those images to draw inspiration from the shapes, colours and textures seen and felt in the landscape. She loves to turn up the volume with the colour and uses different techniques to create flexibility and fluidity in her style. This allows her to dramatise the landscape through the use of bold colours, shapes and textures.

August 2021 - Climate Resilience Is Art Exhibition, Bendigo
September 2021 - Market building winter art show, Castlemaine
October 2021 - The Valley Art Show‘s 9 5 Art Prize, Wyong Creek
October 2021 - Shortlist -Into the Light’ Whitewall Art Prize 2021
October 2021 - Solo Exhibition, Bendigo Bank, Bendigo
October 2021 - Hepburn Swiss Italian Festa Central Victorian Landscape Prize
October 2021 - Melbourne Artists “Spring Breeze” Virtual Exhibition
November 2021 - Daylesford Art Show
November 2021 - Kathryn and the bear Petal & Twig group show, Northcote
November 2021 - Alykat Creative Gallery group show, Coffs Harbour
December 2021 - Market building art show summer, Castlemaine
January 2022 - Over the horizon group show, The Old Auction House Kyneton
March 2022 - 55 Cities group show, The Hue and Cry Collective Geelong
March 2022 - Grammar Art Show, Toowoomba
April 2022 - Before the fall group show, The Old Auction House Kyneton
April 2022 - Fight Cancer Foundation’ 9x5, Swan Hill
April 2022 - Solo Exhibition, Bendigo Bank, Bendigo
April 2022 - Bendigo Art Show, Bendigo
April 2022 - Petite Pieces Prize, Aspire Gallery, Paddington
April 2022 - Aspects Art Show, Goondiwindi
May 2022 - The Other Art Fair, Melbourne...