Melanie is a creative with interests across writing, photography, painting, music, and film who lives and works on Wurundjeri country. As a photographer, she 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 analogue photography. She has exhibited her work regularly via group shows and 'Skyverse' at Lupine Studio is her first solo exhibition.

Beyond visual art, Melanie also writes. 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. She has studied fiction at Faber Writing Academy and poetry at Varuna, The National Writers' House. In 2023, she was a hot desk fellow at The Wheeler Centre.

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 human experience is at the heart of all Melanie does.