Melissa Cameron – Juukan Tears – Offcuts

“After using a jewellers saw that is 0.25mm wide to hand saw around 200m of steel, I linked the cut pieces back together again to form a portrait of the headquarters of the biggest iron ore producer in Australia. To make the portrait, and the 4,600 tears that emanated from it, I cobbled together four separate sheets of recycled corrugated steel. One was swallowed practically whole, while the others left a few offcuts. Some of them were huge sheets with all corrugations intact, and others were small, even dainty. Jewellery scale. The very limited edition Juukan Tears – Offcuts jewellery works are made from these. They are as they fell from the bench, with small jewellery fittings added to make thirty unique and eminently wearable pieces of art.” – Melissa Cameron.

This series and other stainless steel jewellery will be available for sale throughout the exhibition.
Open Wednesday to Friday 11 - 5pm, Saturday 9 - 1pm

Melissa’s work, ‘Juukan Tears’, will be shown in the 2022 North Sydney Art Prize, 14 – 29 May 2022