Current Exhibition

Solo exhibition of work by artist Mellony Taper, winner of the THG Open 2025.

The works explore female stories, inviting us to consider how inherited experience and repeating generational patterns have shaped women’s lives.

Taper’s interdisciplinary practice traverses the intersection of traditional and new media, and she creates multi-layered palimpsests—layer upon layer continually overwritten.

The works can be seen as real and imaginary objects and pictures, two- and three-dimensional, often blurring the line between both. They feature inherited objects and domestic relics, and ​items with a vague or lost provenance, chronicling fragments of history and hints of past lives.  The works are incomplete records, imperfect navigations of the ever-shifting perceptions of memory, time and experience.
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Taper has an increasing interest in how digital and lens-based works manifest themselves in the world. She challenges traditional boundaries of their material representation attempting to work outside any single ‘maker definition’. The works defy accepted definitions of photography, sculpture, drawing or moving image.  

Exhibition opening Saturday 16 May, 2 – 4pm. Drop in and meet the artist to discover more about the exhibition.

Image: © Mellony Taper, Trousseau

The THG upper stairwell will feature Gillian Taylor’s new artwork commemorating the end of the Danish postal service. At the end of last year, PostNord stopped delivering letters and removed all the post boxes.

To mark this moment, Gillian invited people in Denmark to send one last letter. They wrote about memories of meaningful letters received in the past, and shared their thoughts on PostNord’s decision to end letter deliveries, reflecting on the effort and time taken to write a letter by hand.

One writer recalled the family gathering round the kitchen table with the smell of coffee, listening to her mother reading letters from an aunt in Norway.  Others included old Christmas cards, pictures, and an envelope from 1926 addressed to Berlingske, Denmark’s oldest newspaper.

The hanging installation uses daisies made from copies of the letters and their envelopes. The daisy is the national flower of Denmark as well as a symbol of new beginnings and hope – offering an optimistic note, despite the sad end of the handwritten letter.

About Gillian Taylor

photo credit Jim Wileman