Interactive upcycling with Melissa Cameron

Circularity Collaboration – making art using post-consumer waste with Melissa Cameron, metalsmith and jewellery artist

Everyone is welcome! Come together in the Marine Views Lobby to create a large-scale artwork from post-consumer waste, encoding a binary message about the urgent need for a sustainable future.

Working with the artist Melissa Cameron to carefully prepare and sort collected plastic bottle tops, you will be guided in simple jewellery techniques including wire stripping, drilling, wire twisting and stringing the tops together. (Don’t worry, you can do it & will be guided to do it safely.)

Work with Melissa and your friends to fabricate a colourful and meaningful jewel-like hanging – the more hands the merrier!

Skill level: Suitable for all ages. Knitters and others who read patterns and plans are particularly adept at working with the colour based plans that guide the code placement 🙂
What to bring: curiosity! All materials & tools will be supplied.

Melissa Cameron is a Perth-based jeweller and public artist. She has lived in Naarm/Melbourne and on Duwamish lands in Seattle, USA. She holds a BA in Interior Architecture and a Postgrad Diploma in Jewellery Production from Curtin University, and an MFA in Jewellery and Metalsmithing from Monash University. Melissa recently held an exhibition at Rockingham Arts Centre, was a lead artist in IOTA21, and has been selected to exhibit at the internationally acclaimed Cheongju Craft Biennale in South Korea in September 2025. Visit Melissa’s Instagram page.