Recycled Jewellery with Melissa Cameron

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Melissa Cameron

With the provided recycled materials, students will be stripping shielded copper wire from its plastic sheath, then designing, cutting and manipulating this wire to make jewellery and other objects, along with their recycled materials. Bring your rusty or recycled bits and bobs to this class to learn the skills to turn them into beautiful and unique art with jewellery artist Melissa Cameron. Pre-made stainless steel earring hooks and brooch backings, as well as silk or waxed linen cord to hang pendants will be provided. Participants to bring small found metal or plastic objects, a sketchbook, pencil and eraser.

Session 1: Wednesday 7 May 2025  
Session 2: Saturday 17 May 2025 
Time: 10am - 12.30pm
Cost: $20 per session
Registration close: 4pm, Friday 2 May 2025
To book: Call the Rockingham Arts Centre on (08) 9527 0734

About Melissa Cameron
Melissa Cameron is an Australian artist with Anglo-Celtic ancestry. She currently works on Whadjuk Noongar land in Perth, Australia. Previously she’s lived and worked in Naarm/Melbourne and on Duwamish lands in Seattle. Her aesthetic sensibility is influenced by her early studies in computer science, her first career and BFA earned in interior architecture (Curtin University, 2001), and her jewellery/metalsmithing MFA (Monash University, 2009).