Melinda Young at Pablo Fanque

Despite the restrictive guidelines of Take a ball of thread… there is a definite sense of freedom to each work. The artist’s intention is to bring about spontaneous responses to found objects, materials and methods and the project has become a vehicle for pushing and re-working jewellery and craft based techniques. The works themselves provide unexpected juxtapositions of the precious and non-precious, alongside an exploration of meaning and the ongoing conceptual concerns in the artist’s practice. The common thread of pink brings with it a consideration of the multiplicity of playful and serious significances attached to the colour and the material.
Melinda Young won the Established Artist category in the inaugural Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia NSW Profile Award earlier this year for pieces from this body of work. The artist has a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) and a Master of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. She has participated in over 75 exhibitions in Australia and overseas since 1997 and currently teaches in the Jewellery and Object Design Department at the Design Centre, Enmore.