Biography

Observer, creator, teacher, explorer, and companion with the natural world.

Born in Naarm ( Melbourne) Melinda holds a Bachelor of Arts in Applied Art from Deakin University, a Graduate Diploma of Education from LaTrobe University and a Masters in Therapeutic Arts Practice from MIECAT in Melbourne. Alongside her studio practice, Melinda works as an art therapist and educator. She facilitates private art classes for young artists and practical workshops that introduce adults to the experience of art therapy through process and sensorimotor experience.

Melinda approaches art-making as a personal discipline — a practice of attention — but also as a form of dialogue: a way of being in conversation with the world, and of extending that conversation in her teaching of others.

Melinda exhibits her work both nationally and internationally. She lives and works within the unceded ancestral lands, Dja Dja Wurrung, of the Djaara people of the Kulin Nation.

"My practice is a personal inquiry into origin, attachment and individuation — and into the profound human experience of how we are formed relationally. It began with my own reckoning and has grown into something larger than autobiography, because this territory is not mine alone. It is what so many of us move through — often quietly, often without language for it. And it reaches further still — into our relationship with the earth, with the more-than-human world, with the original mother that precedes and outlasts us all."