Mel’s personal arts practice spans painting, printmaking, textiles and tattooing. Mel is also an Academic and Somatic Arts Therapist who has been building and facilitating community cultural events and interactions for 20 years. Mel is the founder of Dr Sketchy’s Anti-Art School Melbourne, a life drawing event that changed the landscape of life drawing in Australia when it launched 18 years ago. Mel now holds regular life drawing events as a part of her project, Ever Tender.

Witnessing first hand the transformative power of creativity and expression, Mel is passionate about inspiring and nurturing an individual’s ability to trust themselves and explore their own expressive style.

Mel’s personal arts practice is dedicated to embodied, intuitive inquiry, drawing on her personal expression of emotions, thoughts and sensations as Mel considers the more than human world around her and blends her love of folklore, myth and magic.