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.
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.
| Mellony Taper is a British interdisciplinary artist. Her work has been exhibited widely across the UK and is regularly selected for prize exhibitions. She is an Academician of the South West Academy of Arts and is a member of the Royal West of England Academy Artist Network. Her work is included in ProCreate Project’s living archive of work by artist-mothers and formed part of the 2023 series of ProCreate Public Activations across London. In 2023, Taper was invited to create work for the exhibition ‘Found Cities, Lost Objects: Women in the City’ curated by Turner Prize-winner and cultural activist, Lubaina Himid CBE, during its tenure at the Royal West of England Academy. Mellony is the winner of the 2025 THG Open Main Prize for her work ‘Trousseau’. |
Image: © Mellony Taper, Trousseau
