Melanie Pyne

Melanie Pyne is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and producer working at the intersection of human rights and environmental justice. Her audio-visual practice blends archival, investigative, and mythopoetic storytelling to explore memory, resistance, and emancipatory futures.

She is a core collaborator on EarthElders, a documentary with the Indigenous-led NGO The Earth Elders, confronting extractivism and defending biocultural sovereignty. Melanie also produces Panjal, an Indigenous-led film on autonomy in Kashmir, and Arwah, which traces the toxic afterlives of war and chemical contamination in Afghanistan.

Her past work includes visual ethnographies in Bosnia exposing EU border violence, and Counter-Surveillance: H2 with Artists+AlliesxHebron, repurposing surveillance tech for land-stewardship & autonomy. At COP26, she supported the Minga Indígena delegation in achieving the world’s first Loss and Damage Policy & Fund for colonial reparations.

As an emerging sonic artist, Melanie’s experimental soundscapes are set to stream in Tokyo, Paris, and Berlin later this year. She is currently producing her debut EP in collaboration with acclaimed musician and producer Barrie-James O’Neill.

Holding an MA in Media Practice for Development and Social Transformation, she specialises in decolonial aesthetics and critical pedagogy. Her work has been featured in BBC, It’s Nice That, SHOWstudio, and UNION Magazine.