ARTIST STATEMENT

Melody’s work primarily examines the relationship between mediums - painting and photography, whilst looking at the effects of paint as a means for translating imagery from one medium to another. In particular it focuses on the process of abstraction that occurs when translating photography into painting, and exploring the notion of allowing imagery to move through time whilst also remaining an 'absolute' fixed visual. Latest print works have continued to explore the relationship between mediums by examining the notion of 're-representation' and translating imagery from one medium back into another, particularly through collage. The importance of the figure within contemporary painting has recently become a focal point of her work, exploring the elimination of the figure and discussing what figurative work becomes with the loss of this dominating feature.

BIOGRAPHY

Melody was born on July 29th 1992 and graduated from a BA in Fine Art Painting from Winchester School of Art in 2013. She has been involved in a number of group and solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including  'Paper Dreams' at The Show Space, London, Fringe Arts Bath Festival 2014, 'Order/Disorder' at Brentwood Gallery, 'Art Takes Miami: 1001 artists project', Miami, and she also continues to partner with ‘This Must Be For You’ arts organisation. She currently lives in London and is continuing her practice.