Victoria Melody's work deals with everyday life, and often has the quality of ethnographic observational research projects. She is fascinated with that which remains unsaid, unheard, unseen, and unfelt, making visible the invisible. By making site-specific and audience participatory works Victoria responds to the rules and stereotypes that define our national identity and character. What appears to be suburban or domestic can turn into something political or steeped in ritual. These performance and video works often employ humour and the absurd to question personal restrictions placed upon us, including fear, pride, desire and notions of conformity.
Melody also curates, teaches, performs in her own and other people's pieces and she makes films. Her performances and video works have been commissioned and shown Internationally. She has had solo shows in the UK and Berlin and has had a monographic survey published of her work entitled 'Ventilation.'
| 2008 |
Arts Claims Impulse Gallery, Berlin |
| 2005 |
Ventilation, Millais Gallery, Southampton |
| 2004 |
All Fur Coat and No Knickers, a space, Southampton |
| 2008 |
Study Gallery of Modern Art, Poole 2008
Bishop of Winchester School, Bournemouth 2008
St Lukes Infant School, Poole 2008 |
| 2006 |
Body Navigation, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Russia
Deconstruction/Reconstruction, Protoplay, The Basement, Brighton
The Community Arts Leader Award, ACE, London |
| 2005 |
Artist in Residence, Rules and Regs, Artvaults, Southampton
Artist in Residence, Vent, OVADA gallery, Oxford
Artist in Residence, CESTA, Czech Republic
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| 2003-2004 |
Artist in Residence, Silbury Group of Artists, Milton Keynes
Artist In Residence, Artsway, New Forest |
| 2000 – 2001 |
Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art
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| 1997 – 2000 |
BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
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| 1996 –1997 |
Fine Art BTEC Foundation, Blacon College of Art |
Curated Shows
| 2008-ongoing |
Supper Club, monthly art evenings The Basement, Brighton |
| 2008 |
Vid-e-o-phile, Video Art Festival, Brighton |
| 2007 |
Open Phoenix Video Art Festival, Brighton |
Commissions
| 2007 |
Public Art Commission Poole Borough Council
Axis, Online Resource |
| 2005 |
Artsway |
Collectives
Protoplay- http://protoplay.net/
TAFKA- www.theartistsformerlyknownas.com |
Awards and Bursaries
| 2006 |
The Basement, Brighton: Supported Artist
The Community Arts Leader Award, ACE, London |
| 2003-2004 |
Setting UP Scheme Bursary |
| 2001 |
AHRB Research Grant |
| 1997-2000 |
Dr Oldfield Award |
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Selected Group Exhibitions, Performances and Screenings
| 2008 |
Showroom, Aberystwyth
Supper Club, The Basement, Brighton
Ladyfest, Manchester
Phoenix Brighton
The Study Gallery of Modern Art, Poole
Loop Festival, Barcelona, Spain
Biennale of Contemporary Art, France
Novas Gallery, London
Mansfield Museum
Free Art Fair, London
Concrete and Glass Festival, London |
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| 2007 |
Girls on Film, Manchester
Representing UK Artist for Femlink
Phoenix Arts Association, Brighton
Permanent Gallery, Brighton
Boiler Rooms, London
Fresh Festival, Reading
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| 2006 |
The Other is You, performed for Station House Opera, Brighton Fringe
Tract, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
Study Gallery of Modern Art, Poole
Enigma, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Girls On Film, Manchester
Videoclub, Brighton
Girls on Film, Manchester
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| 2005 |
Radio Solent, Southampton
Made, Farnham Maltings, Farnham
BBC South Today, Southampton
Hands Free Series, Dorchester, Norway and Finland
Unsupportable Reality, Kaunas, Lithuania
Klaipeda, Lithuania
Vilnius, Lithuania
Artworks, Bournemouth
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| 2004 |
Silbury Group of Artists, Milton Keynes
Vtape, Canada
2004 Mexican Expo, Mexico
Scan, Southampton
Cube Gallery, Bristol
Britain’s Wildest Sky1
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| 2003 |
2003 Demon FM, Leicester
Candid Arts, London
Seen, Leicester
Poole Lighthouse, Poole
FPLA, Birmingham
Underground Overground, Birmingham
Le Chateau, London
Custard Factory, Birmingham
International and European Theatre Meeting, Birmingham
Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
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| 2002 |
LUX, Royal College of Art, London
Green Shed Show, Chelsea College of Art, London
Window Shopping, Newcastle upon Tyne
Halfway House, Newcastle upon Tyne
Invaders II, Newcastle upon Tyne
Invaders, Newcastle upon Tyne |
Contact
www.victoriamelody.co.uk
info@victoriamelody.co.uk
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