Mel Donohoe

Born in Ipswich, 1973.

Currently returning to the first principles that sustain me...something lurks and manifests beyond the notion of tragedy in which should be avoided at all cost.

Lecturer in Fine Art and Performance.
Colchester Institute

There is an exquisite difficulty in ascribing any definitive label to the manifestations of my current practice, this is intrinsic to the temporal juncture I am at right now. My practice, which spans performance art and installation, text and critical drawing, always challenging comfortable institutions of art itself, never resting.

My practice is untidy but multivocal, complex with simple aesthetic and always collaborative. I now aim at an inconvenience towards the agendas of the institution, and failure is rich.

My explicit practice is currently a civil war...