Melanie Olde

Melanie Olde is an Australian artist with professional experience in art, production weaving, research and teaching. In addition to a BA (visual) and her current MA, Melanie has studied nationally and internationally and is a compulsive researcher. Her artistic practice has involved researching cellular structures for form, function, and array to interpret these in biomimetic, moving, woven 3-dimensional forms. She is currently investigating woven systems as a metaphor for complex life-system models, working first with digital applications then symbiotically with her loom to process and create physical/digital woven artworks. She regularly exhibits and publishes nationally and internationally. She recently won awards in consecutive international Complexity weaving exhibitions, presented and exhibited at Bridges Mathematics/Art Conference in Helsinki, Finland, and gave lectures and workshops in New Zealand. She is currently a sessional lecturer at ANU School of Art.