Melody Willis is an artist and writer working on Eora country (Sydney). She currently teaches drawing and creative processes at the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning (University of Sydney).   Her work in painting, drawing and sculpture often emerges from drawings of incidental arrangements of objects, architecture and nature, and explores the ways people alter and engage in and with public space. Her painting aims to capture extreme weather effects.  She will generally soak, dye, stain, bleach or collage the canvas to create ephemeral abstractions on the surface before beginning painting, and tears apart and refashions paintings into soft sculpture. 

 

Melody Willis has a Master of Fine Arts (research) from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW and later completed a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture at UNSW. She has been the recipient of several artist residencies, including a drawing residency with the National Art School, a Freedman Foundation Scholarship that took her to Arcosanti, Arizona and an Asialink residency in Beijing, China supported by the Australia Council for the Arts. ​Work is included in the collections of Artbank, Casula Powerhouse and the Macquarie Bank, as well as private collections.  ​

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portrait by Mark Bond