2023 ‘Womb to Tomb’Solo Exhibition
A creative researcher of Herstory, Mele’s work is intrinsically moved by the initiations of womanhood; on a quest to evoke and embody the inherent archetypal value and power of the mother, witch, visionary, artist and muse.
Mele’s multimedia crafts are inspired by her intimate exploration with the healing spirit, creativity, nature, the elementals, cycles of transformation, death and rebirth and her personal healing and reclamation of her Celtic-Pagan spiritual lineage. Her craft is a personal dialog with the forces of regeneration, restoration and reparation of her matriarchal lineage; to make peace with the cultural, traditional and spiritual genocide of her ancestors.
The Drum and its songs became a central anchor and compass for her as the spiritual seeker of belonging to find her way home, back to the centre, to the heart of what it means to be human and a child of the Earth.
Her creations are a living practice of prayer and a journey of integration; with grief, solo parenting and power plant medicines. Created through times of natural disaster, pandemic and global injustice, she is driven to intentionally create ceremonial and ritualistic beauty and harmony in everything she touches. Bestowing the viewer and the carriers of this medicine, with a physical manifestation and direct transmission of the primordial unifying power of Love.
‘As a species, our creativity is our most sustainable, renewable and regenerate resource’ – Mele
