Mellony Taper’s interdisciplinary practice sits somewhere at the intersection of trad and new media. Often working with digital photography as a raw material, she works outside any single ‘maker definition’, making works that don’t much care about accepted definitions of photography, drawing, moving image or sculpture. Taper works across all these mediums, often fusing them during the making process.
She is interested in how new media art manifests itself in the world, and there is a subtext to her practice that calls out value judgements and prejudices about how digital art is made. She is currently experimenting with AI interventions as part of her digital and photographic practice. Since the birth of her daughter a decade ago, the genesis of Taper’s work has been shaped by the borders of the domiciliary: digital works manifesting themselves in the memorabilia - and subsequently - the fabrics of a home. First: family photographs; then, fabrics: household linens, bedcovers, towels, napkins, tissues…’Artifex Domestica’. |