Ryke’s practice-led research focuses on a critical and playful investigation of the quotidian and experimentation with installation and time based media. Through these mediums the key notion of a bodily experience in space is explored from a phenomenological framework. Recent projects have been focused on embodied listening; listening and recording as a sensorial experience. This topic is being further explored as a creative research doctorate supported by ZHdK, Zurich in partnership with the Kunstuniversitat Linz.

Ryke’s work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including at the Palais des Beaux Arts (Lille, FR), Seventh Gallery (Melbourne, AU), !MetroArts and Boxcopy (Brisbane, AU), Ars Electronica (Linz, AT), Kiosk (Ghent, BE) and at AADK (Blanca, ES). She studied Fine Arts in both Australia and France and has completed the European Postgraduate in Art in Sound at KASK, Ghent in June 2020. Melissa Ryke is an Australian artist currently based in Brussels, Belgium.