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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.'

Solo Exhibitions

2008

Arts Claims Impulse Gallery, Berlin

2005 Ventilation, Millais Gallery, Southampton
2004 All Fur Coat and No Knickers, a space, Southampton

Residencies

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

2003-2004

Artist in Residence, Silbury Group of Artists, Milton Keynes

Artist In Residence, Artsway, New Forest

Education

2000 – 2001 Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art

1997 – 2000 BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Northumbria at Newcastle

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

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

   
2007

Girls on Film, Manchester

Representing UK Artist for Femlink

Phoenix Arts Association, Brighton

Permanent Gallery, Brighton

Boiler Rooms, London

Fresh Festival, Reading

 
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

 
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

 
2004 Silbury Group of Artists, Milton Keynes
Vtape, Canada
2004 Mexican Expo, Mexico
Scan, Southampton
Cube Gallery, Bristol
Britain’s Wildest Sky1

 
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

 
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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