Engage Artist

Jem Mellor

Artform:
Interdisciplinary Practice: sculpture, photography, film and fibre arts
Year:
2021-22
Location:
Birmingham
Influences:
Lindsey Seers, Otobong Nkanga, Richard Wentworth, Sheila Hicks, Cornelia Parker, Richard Tuttle
Email:
jemmamellorstudio@gmail.com
Social link:
jemellor_studio
Project summary:

Jem Mellor is an interdisciplinary artist. Central to her work is the opening up of colloquies (formal conversations) with materials and the development of material co-productive practice.

Employing photography, sculpture and film, her work considers the voice of matter and objects as speaking of more than form and instead encompassing histories, myths, political, social and spiritual relations.

The material world is a vital collaborator in building human and non human worlds but it is often cast simply as a prop, assistant or bit part. In development of greater material co-productive models in arts practices, my own work considers matter from unusual angles and thus grants space to view anew our material world. 

My current proposal and subsequent project seeks to consider materials, matter and objects as active and vibrant agents within art and design practice. 

Using a performative research model to relationally develop material knowledges and evolve a more collaborative relationship with the materials of my own shared practice, Myself, Cotton, Concrete and Wood will be co-producing whilst getting to know one another.

 

Jem Mellor is an interdisciplinary artist. Central to her work is the opening up of colloquies (formal conversations) with materials and the development of material co-productive practice.

Employing photography, sculpture and film, her work considers the voice of matter and objects as speaking of more than form and instead encompassing histories, myths, political, social and spiritual relations.

The material world is a vital collaborator in building human and non human worlds but it is often cast simply as a prop, assistant or bit part. In development of greater material co-productive models in arts practices, my own work considers matter from unusual angles and thus grants space to view anew our material world. 

My current proposal and subsequent project seeks to consider materials, matter and objects as active and vibrant agents within art and design practice. 

Using a performative research model to relationally develop material knowledges and evolve a more collaborative relationship with the materials of my own shared practice, Myself, Cotton, Concrete and Wood will be co-producing whilst getting to know one another.

 

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