Mela Cooke is an Australian sculptor working in bronze. Her subject is the human body in water, and over the years she has built a quiet reputation as one of the more distinctive voices in swimming sculpture in this country.

Her bronze figures capture movement in a way that's hard to explain until you're standing in front of one. The pull of a stroke mid-reach. The compression of a tuck. A Mela Cooke bronze doesn't freeze a moment so much as hold the feeling of it, which is a different thing entirely.
Her work sits in private collections and public spaces across Australia, and she takes on commissions for both. Each piece is cast in bronze and finished by hand.

For anyone looking specifically for Australian bronze sculpture with swimming as its subject, there aren't many sculptors working at this depth with this material. Cooke is one of them.

Commissions and inquiries welcome.