Melanie Cobham’s work deals with migration, colonisation, language and place, mapping the territories (both internal and external) that chart belonging.

After moving to Australia in 2019, and as migration became an increasingly tense subject in the face of the pandemic, she started considering more abstract ways to understand borders, identity and belonging. Surveying landscape and language, her works manifest in the form of drawings, prints, installations and weavings, and embody the fraught translations between the analogue and the digital, between gesture and image, between communication and misunderstanding. She has studied Design, Fine Arts, Filmmaking, Photography, and Silversmithing. Her widely diverse range of interests is often reflected in a practice that spans across a vast array of media. She is currently finishing her Masters of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, and actively participates in group shows, talks and exhibitions both nationally and internationally.