Melanie Jordan
Melanie's art practice is very tactile and haptic, with thread-based crafts at its core. Such slow repetitive activities allow for reflective thought, being absorbing almost to the point of monotony. It is as though the boredom is a precursor to creativity. The process of making is embedded in Melanie’s work, and for her is as important as the outcome.

 

Melanie’s artwork pays attention to maternal ambivalence; the tension between the need to nurture, and feelings of entrapment in motherhood. Her work is informed by her personal perspective of being a mother of an adult with a learning disability, where the mother-child relationship becomes stuck in a dependent phase.

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Melanie has exhibited throughout the UK and internationally, including exhibitions in Vienna, Stockholm, and Berlin. She is an active member of arts organisation ArtCan and is part of their international project, BRIDGE, an exciting new collaboration between ArtCan and Swedish arts organisation OSKG, that bridges the gap across countries, across borders, across cultures, and across art practices. She has shown work at Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate; being a winner of their Portfolio Art Prize in the community group category. The recent textile exhibition UNRAVELLED in Southwest London was co curated by Melanie, along with BobCat Gallery owner Catherine Sweet.  Melanie was awarded an MA in Fine Art from The University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury in 2020.

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