MELLONY TAPER

  • “Spotlight” Theatre Residency
  • Work by series
    • Renamed City
    • Visual Archaeology
    • I Really Wish You Were Here
    • Here We Are Again
    • Life, Twice Removed
    • Redrawing the Landscape
    • Moving Image & Sound
  • Information
    • Bio
    • Exhibitions
    • Sales
    • News
    • Contact
  • “Spotlight” Theatre Residency
  • Work by series
    • Renamed City
    • Visual Archaeology
    • I Really Wish You Were Here
    • Here We Are Again
    • Life, Twice Removed
    • Redrawing the Landscape
    • Moving Image & Sound
  • Information
    • Bio
    • Exhibitions
    • Sales
    • News
    • Contact
PROFILE | ~
Interdisciplinary artist, currently working at the intersection of trad and digital media: painting, drawing, photography, exploratory digital creation strategies and time-based media. Ad hoc arts writer.

AWARDS | ~
  • Arts Council England funding award to deliver “Spotlight” a year-long theatre residency and exhibition project, examining the impact of and recovery from enforced pandemic closure of more than 500 days on regional theatres. | 2022-2023
  • Winner | Digital Practice Award, English Riviera Winter Open 2021
  • Shortlisted | Visual Art Open Emerging UK & International Artists Prize 2021
  • Finalist | Visual Art Open Emerging UK & International Artists Prize 2020
  • Winner | Exeter Living award, South West Academy of Arts Open exhibition, 2020
  • Selected as Royal West of England Academy (RWA) Artist Network member 2019
EXHIBITIONS | ~

2022
  • Evolver Prize 2022 - Top 50 Exhibition | Ace Arts, Somerton | 2 - 30 July 2022 | plus publication in Evolver Magazine 126
  • “Spotlight” 12- month solo show and residency | Princess Theatre (Ambassador Theatre Group), Torquay, Devon.
  • English Riviera Summer Open 22 | Artizan Gallery, Torquay, Devon | 25 June - 07 August 2022
  • Bath Society of Artists 117th Open | Victoria Art Gallery, Bath | 14th May - 2nd July, 2022.
  • ‘Urban Fables’ | Site-specific film projection | inclusive, community based arts event Window Wanderland.

2021
  • Bath Society of Artists 116th Annual Exhibition | Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.
  • South West Academy of Arts Annual Open | Kennaway House, Sidmouth.
  • Artizan Gallery Winter Showcase | Artizan Gallery, Devon. Winner of the Digital Practice Award.
  • Summer Open exhibition | Artizan Gallery, Devon
  • The South West Photography Showcase ‘Finding a Way Home’ | The SouthWest Collective | Artizan Gallery, Devon.
  • ‘Wish You Were Here’ | community art installation | Window Wanderland | Bristol

2020
  • ‘Reflections’ | South West Academy of Fine Arts, Devon | Prize Winner of the Exeter Living Award.
  • The English Riviera Winter Open | Artizan Gallery, Devon
  • Chester Arts Fair Curated Collection
  • Summer Exhibition | CREATES Gallery, Monmouth
  • Window Wanderland | Public Art Installation | Bristol

2019
  • ‘Small and Mighty’ | Black Swan Arts, Frome
  • Window Wanderland | Site-specific Public Art Installation | Bristol

Selected Earlier Group Shows
  • ‘A’ Gallery, London, UK
  • Wimbledon Library Gallery, London, UK
  • Cannizaro Park Annual Sculpture Exhibition, London, UK
  • Camden Arts @ Swiss Cottage Library, London, UK
  • “Out Patients”, Merton Arts Festival, SW London, UK
  • “This is Drawing”, WSA, London UK
  • ‘The Mythic Garden’ Sculpture Garden, Chagford, Devon, UK
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