Melicia Zaini

Melicia (符丽霞, they/them) is a queer, Chinese-Indonesian multidisciplinary artist who dances between costume design, graphic design, visual art, and personal essays (localcolour.substack.com). Their work is a love letter to colours, finding small joys, community building, and celebrating silliness. As a costume designer for stage and screen, they are passionate about designing for new works and designing through a dramaturgical lens. Melicia’s visual art has been exhibited at Slice of Life Gallery and the Vines Art Festival, and can be viewed at @local__colour (that's two underscores!) on instagram. In their free time, they love solving crosswords, being surrounded by trees, and sharing hotpot with loved ones. Melicia is grateful to live and create on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. More info: bio.site/melicia