L A T E S T N E W S ___

FINALIST - City of Melville Art Prize 2024

UPCOMING -
OPEN - side tracks + crossed paths
gallery.ths Margaret River WA FRIDAY 25th OCTOBER 2024

(natural) habitat
Curatorial+Co SYDNEY
OPENING Wednesday 13th Nov 6pm 2024

Photo by Bo Wong

Melissa Boughey describes her work as “an annotation of landscape, a shorthand writing, a synthesis of experience.” Time spent immersed in the landscape, drawing en plein air, is intrinsic to her experience and provides the framework for the development of paintings in her bush studio, where she has lived and worked for the past 23 years, located on the Kent River near Denmark, WA. 

Melissa’s work often sits between the two worlds of desert and bush, or coastal and inland, usually inspired by a recent camping trip. Painting for her is a sensory experience, allowing the work to develop of its own accord is paramount, through mark-making, colour play, and integrity to materials and surface.