ABOUT
ABOUT
Melanie Schuijers
Melanie Skyers
Melanie Skyers
Melanie is multi-disciplinary creative with interests across writing, photography, painting, music, and film who lives and works on Wurundjeri country. She began her career in the music industry as a lyricist and topliner, with highlights including penning a song that charted in the top twenty, winning an independent music award, and writing music for film and television.
Aside from lyrics, Melanie has pursued other forms of writing and has had a short poetry collection published in an online literary magazine. She studied creative writing and literature at The University of Melbourne, then engaged further in a fiction writing course taught by Hannah Kent and Rebecca Stanford at Kill Your Darlings. She was selected for the 2022 Writing a Novel program with Emily Bitto and Sophie Cunningham at Faber Writing Academy where she worked on a fiction novel, Bellyheart, and further developed this project as a 2023 Wheeler Centre hot desk fellow. Melanie was selected for 2023 Kill Your Darlings mentorship with poet Omar Sakr where she worked on a verse novel titled Nacre. This project was also selected for a 2024 Varuna Masterclass with Felicity Plunkett.
Melanie is a creative with interests across writing, photography, painting, music, and film who lives and works on Wurundjeri country. She began her career in the music industry as a lyricist and topliner, with highlights including penning a song that charted in the top twenty, winning an independent music award, and writing music for film and television.
Beyond lyrics, Melanie has explored other forms of writing and has had a short poetry collection published in an online literary magazine. She studied creative writing and literature at The University of Melbourne, then engaged in a fiction writing course taught by Hannah Kent and Rebecca Stanford at Kill Your Darlings. She was selected for the 2022 Writing a Novel program with Emily Bitto and Sophie Cunningham at Faber Writing Academy where she worked on a fiction novel, Belly-Heart, and further developed this project as a 2023 Wheeler Centre hot desk fellow. Melanie was selected for 2023 Kill Your Darlings mentorship with poet Omar Sakr where she worked on a verse novel titled Nacre. This project was also selected for a 2024 Varuna Masterclass with Felicity Plunkett.
Melanie is a creative with interests across writing, photography, painting, music, and film who lives and works on Wurundjeri country. She began her career in the music industry as a lyricist and topliner, with highlights including penning a song that charted in the top twenty, winning an independent music award, and writing music for film and television.
Beyond lyrics, Melanie has explored other forms of writing and has had a short poetry collection published in an online literary magazine. She studied creative writing and literature at The University of Melbourne, then engaged in a fiction writing course taught by Hannah Kent and Rebecca Stanford at Kill Your Darlings. She was selected for the 2022 Writing a Novel program with Emily Bitto and Sophie Cunningham at Faber Writing Academy where she worked on a fiction novel, Belly-Heart, and further developed this project as a 2023 Wheeler Centre hot desk fellow. Melanie was selected for 2023 Kill Your Darlings mentorship with poet Omar Sakr where she worked on a verse novel titled Nacre. This project was also selected for a 2024 Varuna Masterclass with Felicity Plunkett.
Melanie Skyers
Melanie is a creative with interests across writing, photography, painting, music, and film who lives and works on Wurundjeri country. She began her career in the music industry as a lyricist and topliner, with highlights including penning a song that charted in the top twenty, winning an independent music award, and writing music for film and television.
Beyond lyrics, Melanie has explored other forms of writing and has had a short poetry collection published in an online literary magazine. She studied creative writing and literature at The University of Melbourne, then engaged in a fiction writing course taught by Hannah Kent and Rebecca Stanford at Kill Your Darlings. She was selected for the 2022 Writing a Novel program with Emily Bitto and Sophie Cunningham at Faber Writing Academy where she worked on a fiction novel, Belly-Heart, and further developed this project as a 2023 Wheeler Centre hot desk fellow. Melanie was selected for 2023 Kill Your Darlings mentorship with poet Omar Sakr where she worked on a verse novel titled Nacre. This project was also selected for a 2024 Varuna Masterclass with Felicity Plunkett.
Melanie Skyers
Melanie is a creative with interests across writing, photography, painting, music, and film who lives and works on Wurundjeri country. She began her career in the music industry as a lyricist and topliner, with highlights including penning a song that charted in the top twenty, winning an independent music award, and writing music for film and television.
Beyond lyrics, Melanie has explored other forms of writing and has had a short poetry collection published in an online literary magazine. She studied creative writing and literature at The University of Melbourne, then engaged in a fiction writing course taught by Hannah Kent and Rebecca Stanford at Kill Your Darlings. She was selected for the 2022 Writing a Novel program with Emily Bitto and Sophie Cunningham at Faber Writing Academy where she worked on a fiction novel, Belly-Heart, and further developed this project as a 2023 Wheeler Centre hot desk fellow. Melanie was selected for 2023 Kill Your Darlings mentorship with poet Omar Sakr where she worked on a verse novel titled Nacre. This project was also selected for a 2024 Varuna Masterclass with Felicity Plunkett.
As a photographer, Melanie is drawn to all things analogue, collecting vintage cameras and shooting on film. She particularly enjoys experimental photography, altering images non-digitally to create surreal effects. After studying painting, Melanie became curious about how abstraction could be explored via the photographic medium. She has exhibited her work regularly via group shows at Brunswick Street Gallery and a solo show at Lupine Studio. Images from Melanie's Skyverse series were part of the hero festival identity for Midsumma 2025, appearing across Melbourne / Naarm, including on a tram.
Melanie currently works at a local creative agency in the leadership team, as a photographer, and as a creative director. She also has a doctoral degree in clinical psychology. While expressed in many different forms, hopeful, visceral, synesthetic exploration of the human experience is at the heart of all Melanie does.
I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands and waters where I work and live, the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to Elders past, present, and future, and celebrate the ongoing art, storytelling, and cultural traditions that have been practised on this land by one of the oldest cultures on the planet.
© 2025 - Melanie Skyers
I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands and waters where I work and live, the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to Elders past, present, and future, and celebrate the ongoing art, storytelling, and cultural traditions that have been practised on this land by one of the oldest cultures on the planet.
© 2025 - Melanie Skyers
I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands and waters where I work and live, the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to Elders past, present, and future, and celebrate the ongoing art, storytelling, and cultural traditions that have been practised on this land by one of the oldest cultures on the planet.
© 2025 - Melanie Skyers
I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands and waters where I work and live, the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to Elders past, present, and future, and celebrate the ongoing art, storytelling, and cultural traditions that have been practised on this land by one of the oldest cultures on the planet.
© 2025 - Melanie Skyers
I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands and waters where I work and live, the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to Elders past, present, and future, and celebrate the ongoing art, storytelling, and cultural traditions that have been practised on this land by one of the oldest cultures on the planet.
© 2025 - Melanie Skyers