Rae Melody

Rae Melody is a contemporary British artist whose work explores the interconnection between memory, matter and environment through the lens of crystal frequencies and ancestral resonance.

Her layered, chiselled paintings investigate how grief and remembrance become embedded within the physical world - how emotion, like geology, settles into strata over time.

Educated in Surface Pattern Design and Printing in Leeds, and with a background as an art teacher, Melody’s practice bridges intuitive process with structural precision.
Her paintings are often embedded with collaged pages
from books once belonging to her late cousin, forming coded sequences that echo DNA structures and the crystalline architecture of memory.
Through this, she explores the environment not just as landscape, but as a living archive of human experience - where every layer holds vibration and story.

Alongside her studio practice, Melody continues to work with young people with special educational needs and some of society’s most vulnerable groups using art as a vehicle for confidence, connection and healing.
She has delivered projects with organisations including the Royal West of England Academy, Doorway Charity for the Homeless, and Kandu, an alternative ...

BA (Hons) Printed Textiles & Surface Pattern Design. Leeds College of Art & Design (affiliated by Leeds University) 1995-1998

PGCE Art & Design.
Bath Spa University 2008-2009

2026:
Messums West, Tisbury, UK (17 Jan- 28 March)

2025:
The Other Art Fair, London, UK
London Bienalle
RWA 172 Annual Open Exhibition, Bristol, UK

2024:
Friends of the RWA, Bristol, UK
Bath Society of Artists 119th Annual Open Exhibition, Bath, UK
Modern Art Collective group exhibition, PRIOR, Bristol, UK

2023:
Also Artists, RWA, Bristol, UK
Spotlight 3 (Permanent Collection) Chippenham Museum, UK
DARK, Forbidden Carnival, Chippenham, UK
Superfine Art Fair, New York, USA
RWA 170 Annual Open Exhibition, Bristol, UK
Head Above the Clouds Exhibition, Swindon, UK
Hail the Curious, Forbidden Carnival, Chippenham, UK
Bath Society of Artists Annual Open Exhibition, Bath, UK
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2022:
Pound Arts Annual Open Exhibition, Corsham, UK
CDA Annual Exhibition, Chippenham, UK
Out Loud Exhibition, Trowbridge, UK
RWA 169 Annual Open Exhibition, Bristol, UK
Swindon Paint Fest, Swindon, UK
Wiltshire Creative Summer Open Exhibition, Salisbury, UK
Bath Society of Artists Annual Open Exhibition, Bath, UK
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2021:
Pound Arts Annual Open Exhibition, Corsham, UK
Art2Life International Juried Exhibition, online