Mel Booth is an emerging artist living and working on Gadigal Land (Sydney, Australia).
Her practice investigates the instability of systems used to categorise and define the world. Working with textiles, embroidery, ceramics and bio-materials, she engages with materials loaded with social and political meaning in experimental and intuitive ways. Their intersection mirrors her conceptual interest in “in-between-ness”: the complex realities that exist beneath rigid structures such as gender binaries, nationalism and biological classification. Through surreal and uncanny imagery, Booth uses curiosity and intuition as tools to probe how perspectives are formed and sustained.
I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live, work and play - the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. I recognise their continuing connection to the land and waters, and thank them for protecting this coastline and its ecosystems since time immemorial. I would like to pay my respects to elders past and present and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.