Melanie Hava is a talented Aboriginal Artist, based in Far North Queensland. Her artwork is influenced by her diverse cultures and experiences in the outback, rainforest and reef country.
Melanie was born into interesting and diverse cultures: her father came from the oldest city in Austria, Enns (Upper Austria); her mother from one of the oldest cultures on earth, aboriginal people of Australia.
While celebrating her Austrian heritage, Melanie also identifies through her Mum’s line as a Mamu Aboriginal woman, Dugul-barra and Wari-barra family groups, from the North Johnstone River catchment of the Wet Tropics of Far North Queensland and the adjoining Great Barrier Reef sea country.
Melanie continues to exhibit her artwork across Australia, and has joined up with galleries, had several exhibitions both solo and group, painting in Mount Isa, Toowoomba and Yowah, before settling down in beautiful and inspiring Far North Queensland’s Cairns city – close at hand to her mother’s country and generations past and present.
Melanie was born into interesting and diverse cultures: her father came from the oldest city in Austria, Enns (Upper Austria); her mother from one of the oldest cultures on earth, Aboriginal people of Australia.
In 2023, Melanie has collaborated with Greenigo to create the Jigay (Earth) Collection comprising wood cover notebooks, journals and wood bookmarks made with 100% sustainable wood veneer.
In her words - "I present to you the Jigay Collection because everything alive on earth comes from the earth. This collection consists of some of my favourite Australian birds and animals to paint. Our ‘old ones’, our ancestors lived as one with their country and the earth provided for them. Our native birds and animals still live as one with the earth and its fauna and the earth always provides for them. The closer we are connecting with
our surrounding nature and earth, the more happiness and serenity we find in ourselves
and our lives."
