MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ARTIST WORKING AT THE INTERSECTION OF TRAD AND DIGITAL MEDIA
Mellony Taper is an interdisciplinary artist working with traditional, digital and time based media. Often working with digital photography and layers, she describes these works as palimpsests. Taper likes to work in series’, producing bodies of work connected to a particular place or idea.
Her working process is endlessly iterative: a piece may go through many infinitesimal, incremental changes in its evolution. Working digitally means that each evolution can be saved in its own right, creating a succession of visual echoes.
PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES
Long-term interests pursue people and landscapes - singularly, and each within the other. Landscape is a metaphysical idea, and a human one. There is the earth; there is humanity: “landscape” is a concept that occurs only when the two are put together.
Recent landscape work has chronicled erosion landscapes: human traces and interventions in the liminal places along the coastline of the UK.
Taper cultivates a visual ambivalence in her work that reflects innate tensions and obfuscates or plays with identifiable signifiers such as the figure, time, architecture, landmarks. The resulting constructs challenge fixed notions of time and place; reflecting instead metaphysical human experiences of place, experience and memory.
Taper describes her practice as:
“ a liminal thing: belonging neither to one state or another; one medium or another. In very real terms, I exist as an artist at the edges and in-between spaces of my own life, and my practice is both a product and reflection of this. This coming-to-terms is the subject of a new and very recent, body of work currently evolving, examining my journey and experience as artist and mother. I’m tentatively referring to this work as “Connections””.
Her working process is endlessly iterative: a piece may go through many infinitesimal, incremental changes in its evolution. Working digitally means that each evolution can be saved in its own right, creating a succession of visual echoes.
PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES
Long-term interests pursue people and landscapes - singularly, and each within the other. Landscape is a metaphysical idea, and a human one. There is the earth; there is humanity: “landscape” is a concept that occurs only when the two are put together.
Recent landscape work has chronicled erosion landscapes: human traces and interventions in the liminal places along the coastline of the UK.
Taper cultivates a visual ambivalence in her work that reflects innate tensions and obfuscates or plays with identifiable signifiers such as the figure, time, architecture, landmarks. The resulting constructs challenge fixed notions of time and place; reflecting instead metaphysical human experiences of place, experience and memory.
Taper describes her practice as:
“ a liminal thing: belonging neither to one state or another; one medium or another. In very real terms, I exist as an artist at the edges and in-between spaces of my own life, and my practice is both a product and reflection of this. This coming-to-terms is the subject of a new and very recent, body of work currently evolving, examining my journey and experience as artist and mother. I’m tentatively referring to this work as “Connections””.