Exhibition of work by artist Mellony Taper, winner of the THG Open 2025: .
Taper’s interdisciplinary practice traverses the intersection of traditional and new media, she creates multi-layered palimpsests: layer upon layer, constantly overwritten, partially erased and written again.
These works take their place in the world as objects and pictures – both real and imaginary; both two- and three-dimensional, often blurring the line between both. They may be inherited objects, domestic relics; items with a vague or lost provenance; chronicling fragments of real or revisionist histories: hints of lives. They are incomplete records and imperfect navigations of the ever-shifting perceptions of memory, time and experience.
One physical manifestation of this line of enquiry is an increasing interest in how digital and lens-based works manifest themselves in the world: challenging traditional boundaries of their material representation and attempting to work outside any single ‘maker definition’, making works that don’t much care about 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 including: the Royal West of England Academy; the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; East Quay Open; the RWA Photo Open and the Bath Open Art Prize. She is an Academician of the South West Academy of Arts and has been affiliated with the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) via its elective Artist Network since 2019. Her work is included in ProCreate Project’s living archive of work by artist-mothers. |
Image: © Mellony Taper, Trousseau
