Mel Jhey Art

Mel Jhey lives and works on Gadigal Country in Sydney, Australia. Her practice explores the somatemotional connection using material agency and environment.

Working primarily with ceramics alongside drawing and installation, Jhey approaches clay as a responsive and unpredictable material. Her process is fast and physical, allowing glazes, slips and the effects of fire to influence the final form.

Her hybrid sculptures sit between the familiar and the surreal, suggesting botanical growths, anatomical fragments, relics and speculative lifeforms. These ambiguous works explore cycles of decay and regeneration and juxtapose humour and playfulness against dark visceral energies.