Approved: 18.02.2014

Melanie Rose

Artist, Lecturer / academic, Researcher

Approved: 18.02.2014

Melanie Rose is Educated at Winchester School of Art, Trent Polytechnic, and Central Saint Martins and is currently in the final stages of a practice led PhD in the School of Design at the University of Leeds. The focus of her research is the landscape set within the South Downs National Park, explored through painting and walking. Melanie is a member of LAND2, a national network of artist/researchers with an interest in place-oriented art. She has exhibited widely and has work in both private and public collections.

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  • Location: Winchester, South East
  • Contexts: Exhibition, Practice-based research, Research
  • Artforms: Painting
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Artist Statement

Melanie Rose is Educated at Winchester School of Art, Trent Polytechnic, and Central Saint Martins and is currently in the final stages of a practice led PhD in the School of Design at the University of Leeds. The focus of her research is the landscape set within the South Downs National Park, explored through painting and walking. Melanie is a member of LAND2, a national network of artist/researchers with an interest in place-oriented art. She has exhibited widely and has work in both private and public collections.

In 2019 she walked the South Downs Way, from Eastbourne to Winchester, drawing, photographing and writing as she went. At the same time, she collated a unique collection of images of this landscape from pre-1750 to the present day. She returned to her studio and produced an extensive body of work through which she explores echoes of the past through contemporary painting, including themes such as tracks, traces, paths, and tumuli. Her work invites questions as to whether it is possible to re-envision the landscape of the South Downs through contemporary painting, raising questions for the present and future of the area in terms of access, biodiversity, farming practices and stewardship, arguments sourced, witnessed, and explored through walking and painting.

CV & Education

Education

2018                         PhD practice-led University of Leeds, School of Design (fulltime researcher final year)

2011                         PGCE University of Portsmouth                    

2000 - 2002              MA Central Saint Martins 

1984 - 1987              BA (Hons) Fine Art Trent Polytechnic     

1983 - 1984              Art Foundation Winchester School of Art

 

Exhibitions (Full list available)

2021                        Facing Both Ways: Walking the South Downs Way through Painting City Space, Winchester  

2020                        Picture Palace Transition Gallery, London

2019                        Sunday Times Water Colour Competition Mall Galleries (touring)

2019                        Arborealists The Youngs Gallery, Salisbury (group exhibition)

2019                        Phytopia Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea

2019                        Bone Winter West Dean College of Arts and Conservation

2018                        The Masters Screen and Stone Bankside Gallery, London

2018                        A Case for Place, The Steel Rooms Gallery, Brigg

2017                        The Moon and a Smile Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea

2016                        Imagined Landscapes Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 

2016                        A Balancing Act Mottisfont NT Cellarium

2015                        10 Days: Chalk Winchester Discovery Centre 

2015                        Drawing Breath St Johns Bethnal Green, London

2015                        Drawing Breath The Manor, Hemingford Grey

2013                        Landscape Art & Uncertainty Exhibition Southampton City Art Gallery

2013                        Elemental Dialogues 10 Days Creative Collisions / Guildhall Gallery, Winchester