Mellony Taper |
PROFILE | ~
b. London, 1970
Mellony Taper is an interdisciplinary artist, currently working somewhere at the intersection of trad and digital media: painting, drawing, photography, exploratory digital creation strategies and time-based media. She studied Sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art (now UAL) when it was still the last remaining independent London art school, and prior to that, Contemporary Writing at the University of Middlesex.
She is an occasional writer and critic on the arts and other subjects.
Mellony Taper is Marketing Director of ArtPort, Portishead Arts Festival.
She is an occasional writer and critic on the arts and other subjects.
Mellony Taper is Marketing Director of ArtPort, Portishead Arts Festival.
AWARDS | ~
- Evolver Prize 2022 shortlist
- Arts Council award to deliver “Spotlight”: artwork 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
2021
2020
2019
Selected Earlier Group Shows
2022
- ArtPort 2022 | Portishead Arts Festival
- Above and Below | Artizan, Devon | September 2022 | an exhibition of new works at Artizan Gallery, Devon, that respond to the themes celebrated by the Time and Tide Bell Project. In association with Prof Corinna Wagner (University of Exeter); a project supported by the UK Climate Resilience Programme and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
- Evolver Prize 2022 | 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, UK
- South West Academy of Arts Annual Open | Kennaway House, Sidmouth, Devon, UK
- 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
- ‘Wish You Were Here’ | site-specific 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, UK
- VAO Finalists ExHibition | Chester Arts Fair | Chester, UK
- Summer Exhibition | CREATES Gallery | Monmouth, Wales
2019
- ‘Small and Mighty’ | Black Swan Arts, Frome
Selected Earlier Group Shows
- ‘A’ Gallery | London, UK
- Wimbledon Library Gallery | London, UK
- Cannizaro Park Sculpture Exhibition | London, UK
- Camden Arts | London, UK
- “Out Patients” | Merton Arts Festival | London, UK
- “This is Drawing” | WSA, London UK
- ‘The Mythic Garden’ | Stone Lane Sculpture Gardens | Chagford, Devon, UK