Melanie Jayne Taylor

Melanie Jayne Taylor's practice explores the use of photography as a site for ordering and archiving memory. She works with text components, video and installation strategies to display her extensive personal photographic archive; within these images she investigates the meanings of memory, loss, longing, absence and the complexity of time.

Her recent work concentrates on creating systems and strategies of compilation and cataloguing as a means of managing the ever growing body of material in her archive.

Melanie is an early career artist from Melbourne, Australia, based in Barcelona, Spain. She holds an Master of Fine Arts (2010) from RMIT University, Melbourne, where she is currently studying for a Diploma of Information Management.

Melanie has exhibited her work extensively in Australia and internationally. She has been awarded grants from Australia Council for the Arts, Australia-Thailand Institute, Victorian Multicultural Commission and RMIT University and residencies in Australia, Finland, France, Italy, Spain and Thailand.

Melanie worked for the Storage & Digital Collection Services at State Library Victoria since 2007. She is part of the collectives Concrete Post and Eye Collective.

SOLO EXHIBITION
2017: Interweaving Archives, Archivo Comarcal del Urgell, Catalonia
2016: All The Gardens I Could Find, Blindside, Melbourne
2015: A Way With It All, The Ferry Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2013: A Way With It All, Beam Contemporary, Melbourne
2013: Acts of Re-ordering, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane
2013: Certain Geometry, G3 Art Space, City of Kingston, Melbourne
2011: The Room for Ordering Memory, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2011: Cataloguing the Composite, Beam Contemporary, Melbourne
2011: On the Rise, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat
2011: Some Sort of Split, Summer Studio Residency, Blindside, Melbourne
2010: Viewing Room, First Site Gallery, Melbourne

SELECTED COLLABORATIONS
2015: Concrete Post 3, Collaboration with Concrete Post, Raum 281, Bonn, Germany
2015: Stream: A Room for the Conscious Mind, Collaboration with Laura Thompson and Samuel Stewart, Fringe Festival, Melbourne
2015: Concrete Post 2, Collaboration with Concrete Post, Project Space/Spare Room, RMIT University
2015: Wrapped in Culture, Collaboration with Rushdi Anwar, Ne' na Contemporary Art Space, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2014: Shelf, Collaboration with Concrete Post, SITUATION symposium/exhibition, Desi...