Image Credit: Ellen Eustice

  • Mel Jane Wilson is an academic researcher and artist who explores the transient nature of human experiences through her drawings and paintings. Combining historical motifs with her research on women artists, she oscillates between figuration and abstraction. Using water-based and mixed media techniques, she creates a dialogue between the past and present, capturing the essence of impermanence and its nuanced complexities.

  • Mel Jane Wilson (b. Naarm/ Melbourne) lives in Ballarat, Wadawurrung County.

    Solo exhibitions: Tender Buds, Rubicon Ari, Melbourne, 2023; A Trail of Seams, Assembly Point, Melbourne, 2018; Overlapped Mixings, Mailbox Art Space, Melbourne, 2017; Flux, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, 2015; Cut Removed & Exposed, Rooftop Art Space, Melbourne, 2013.

    Group Exhibitions: Fort Earth, (curated) FortyFive Downstairs, Melbourne, 2024; Birthday Exhibition, Floating Goose Studios, Adelaide, 2024; TAR Member Exhibition, Melbourne, 2024; Eureka Art Prize, Fairbanks Gallery, Ballarat, 2023; Global Period Poverty Forum, Share the Dignity Australia, Brisbane, 2022; Blacktown City Art Prize, The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre, NSW, 2021; Life in Lockdown | Atrium Space, Monash Gallery of Art, 2021; Random Co-Lab, Unicorn Lane, Ballarat, 2020; Venus Rising, Backspace Gallery, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, 2019; Efflorescence, The Artist Guild, Melbourne, 2019; Build/Rebuild, The Artist Guild, Melbourne, 2018; Graeme Hildebrand Painting Prize, Red Gallery, Melbourne, 2017; Home Alone: Solitary Pleasures, Floating Goose Gallery, Adelaide, 2017; Sublime, Sidewalk, Ripple, Wide Open Road, Castlemaine, 2017; Conversation, Montsalvat Gallery, 2017; Fresh! Craft Victoria Gallery, Melbourne, 2016; Tilt, Alderman Upstairs, Melbourne, 2016; Bluestone, The Living Museum of the West, Melbourne, 2016; ;, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne, 2015; Scoopnet, VCA Student Gallery, 2015; Artificial World, Space 32, Melbourne, 2014; The Black Square, Alderman Upstairs, Melbourne, 2013; Mary and Lou Sculpture Show, McClelland Gallery, 2013; Dead Rubber, Project Car Park, Collingwood, 2013; Impromptu, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne, 2013; Proud, Fiona & Sydney Myer Gallery, Melbourne, 2013.

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Image Credit: Ellen Eustice

Mel Jane Wilson pays respect to the Wadawurrung people and their elders past and present – the traditional custodians of the land on which she lives and makes art.