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Mark Melvin
About
b. 1979, Bury, UKMelvin has achieved a great deal of success to date as an artist in his own right, resulting in several high profile awards, residencies and exhibitions both within the UK and abroad. Last year he won the Nationwide Mercury Art Prize, with his work featuring on the album cover for the music prize selected by Tim Marlow and Sir Peter Blake and was selected as one of four finalists for the Saatchi 4 New Sensations competition with a 3-minute wonder documentary on his work shown on Channel 4 in October 2007. As a result his work has been selected as part of both the Zablodowicz and Uhoda collections. Highlights this year include a solo exhibition, Looking forward to looking back, at Sassoon Gallery, London and a group show Nihilism, Silence and the Refusal to Speak at Paraplufabriek, in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Both projects were the subject of documentaries made by the South East London Film Collective who Melvin continues to work with. His work often involves a great deal of cross-disciplinary and site-specific work and he has a longstanding collaborative partnership with his brother and composer Adam Melvin in developing both curatorial and artistic projects that combine music and visual art in tandem with one another so that neither one element is deemed subsidiary to the other. As a research area, it represents something of a first in its field and has allowed him to participate in some of the most innovative multi-disciplinary projects happening today. This work has involved working with numerous performance practioners particularly from the worlds of music and theatre. Examples include award winning jazz musician, Matt Bourne, Juice Vocal Trio, and the Netherlands based instrumental ensemble, Duo X. … Read More
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Website
- http://www.markmelvin.co.uk
GALLERY REPRESENTATION AND COLLECTIONS
Sherin Najjar Gallery (represented artist)
Zabludowicz Collection
Huis Marseille Collection
Uhoda Collection
Nationwide Mercury Prize Collection
Other private collections
UPCOMING PROJECTS (2012)
Collaboration with Adam Melvin, Void Gallery, Londonderry, UK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Closing Time, Horatio Jr., London, UK
2012 Interval, Hackney Picture House, London, UK
2012 Sunday, Cob Gallery, London. UK
2011 Solo presentation, With Galerie Sherin Najjar, Solo Projects, Basel, Switzerland
2011 Remember to Forget, Galerie Sherin Najjar, Berlin, Germany
2008 Looking Forward to Looking Back, Solo exhibition, Sassoon Gallery, London, UK
2005 The Second Hand Unwinds Crosby Show Manchester Art Prize 2004,
Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Gjentagelse, Gallery Pictura, Lund, Sweden
2010
Beyond the Dustheaps, Charles Dickens Museum, London, UK
Brachen-Siedlung,(Wasteland Settlement) touring exhibition, Nijmegen and Arnhem, Netherlands and Duisburg, Germany
A Man is not a tree, Galerie Sherin Najjar, Berlin, Germany
White Garden, group exhibition, Hospital Júlio de Matos Lisbon, Portugal
2009
Mark Melvin and Tom Lewis, ROA Gallery, London, UK
Frustration Canon with Skup Palet at Copenhagen Alternative Art Fair, Denmark
Apocalypse Now, group exhibition, Red Wire Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2008
Concrete and Glass (Saatchi Online Artists at the Gallery, Beach Blanket Babylon, London, UK
In and Out of Place, The Krautcho Club, 176 Gallery, London, UK and Galerie im
Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany.
Twilight Suite, Louise T Blouin Institute, London, UK
Spin – The Art of Record Design, University of the Arts, London, UK
Becks Fusions, Manchester, UK
Staff Exhibition , Phillips De Pury, London, UK
Nihilism, Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2007
4 New Sensations, Old Truman Breweries, London, UK
Out of The Frying Pan, L’ Espace Uhoda, Liege, Belgium
Nationwide Mercury Prize Exhibition, The Hospital, London, UK
11.427 Central Saint Martins MA Interim Exhibition, Barge House, London, UK … Read More
BA hons (first class) Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art/ Maryland Institute College of Art and DesignMA studies in Context and Media, Konsthogskolan ValandMA FIne Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, … Read More
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Events
Upcoming events: Viewpoint, September 2012 @ Huis Marseille, Amsterdam and Fulgurites (a collaboration with Adam Melvin) October 2012 @ Void Gallery, Londonderry, UK.
Exhibitions
Latest Exhibition: Closing Time, Horatio Jr., London, UK
