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Anne-Mie Melis is a visual artist and educator. Her artwork explores how we as humans experience our natural environment. She uses digital alongside traditional media in installations with a combination of drawing, sculptural work, video, stop-motion animation and/or photography.

Her latest work increasingly incorporates interactive elements. She invites the public to share her naïve attempts to establish change to our behaviour, thus exploring art as a possible tool for its potential to instigate social and environmental change. She often collaborates on projects with other people. Running outreach projects for people of different ages and backgrounds is an integrated part of Melis' practice.

Recent projects and exhibitions include Lead Creative School Projects (with Roger Lougher at Alaw PS, Ystruth PS, Llwnderw PS), ArcadeCampfa (Cardiff), Silent Stage (Lithuania), G39 (Cardiff, with Roger Lougher), Oriel Myrddin (Carmarthen), Oriel Davies (Newtown), the Jerwood Space (London), Lokaal01 (Antwerp, Belgium) and the Weizzmann Institute of Science (Israel).

m.melis@btinternet.com

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Chicory Flexine at G39 UNIT(e)

AWARDS / RESIDENCIES / COMMISSIONS

2021

Artist in Residence, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium

2019

Coventry Biennial

2018 - '19

Manor Park Playground Project Penarth, Public Art Commission, EMP Projects, Rhôd and Johana Hartwig, Roger Lougher and Anne-Mie Melis

2017

UNIT(e) Residency at g39, Cardiff, in collaboration with Roger Lougher

2015 - '16

Commissioned by Oriel Davies the flora project, coinciding with solo presentation at Oriel Myrddin

2014

Research and Development Award supported by Arts Council Wales, Artist in Residence at PDR, International Centre for Product Design and Research, Cardiff Metropolitan University

2013

Commission / Research Artist in Residence, Duke’s Wood Project, Ordinary Culture, Nottingham

2012

Hybrid, Peter Hulsmans & Anne-Mie Melis, Artist in Residence in Lokaal 01, Antwerp, Belgium

2010 - '11

The Leverhulme Trust, Artist in Residence Award, School of Biosciences at Cardiff University

2010

Arts Council England selected Escalator Artist

2009

Research and Development Award, Grants for the Arts, Art Council England, East

2009

Artist in Residence, Addenbrooks Hospital Cambridge, outreach project in collaboration with Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2019

The closer we are, Elysium Gallery, Swansea

2019

Coventry Biennial

2019

Y Lle Celf, National Eisteddfod of Wales

2018

Slow Landscape' (solo) at Arcade Cardiff, Queens Arcade, Cardiff

2018

Silent Stage, Kukiskes, Lithuania, group exhibition, interdisciplinary project, curated by Mona Casey and Tadas Stalyga

2017

UNIT(e) Summer School at G39 (with Roger Lougher), Cardiff

2016

A New Niche for Nature, flora commission / solo show at Oriel Myrddin Gallery, commission by Oriel Davies Gallery and supported by ACW

2016

flora touring, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth

2015

Watch My Garden Grow, Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan (solo)

2015

flora, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Powys and touring in Wales

2015

Drawing 2015, Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen

2014

Underground, Cefn Coed Coal and Steam Museum, Neath.

2013

Dukeswood Project with Ordinary Culture, Nottingham, supported by the Arts Council England

2013

Colony 13, curated by Lee Williams, Cardigan

2012

Hybrid, Artist in Residence at Lokaal01, with artist Peter Hulsmans, Antwerp, Belgium, supported by the Flemish Community in Belgium

2012

Intersections, Science in Contemporary Art, exhibition at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, curated by Cathy Wills and Carolyn Drake, supported by the British Council Israel

2012

Feeling the Pressure (Climate Change 2), Open Exhibition at Rhyl Library, Museum & Arts Centre, Denbighshire, North Wales

2012

Rhôd 2012, curated by Kathryn Campbell Dodd, Melin Glonc, Drefelin, Carmarthenshire, West Wales

2012

TERRA, Jerwood Encounters, Jerwood Space, London and touring to Grizedale Forest, Lake District, curated by Hayley Skipper and Antony Mottershead

2011

Blind Petunias, The Late Shift at the Forum, Norwich in collaboration with the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

2011

Blind Petunias, Cambridge Science Festival, as part of the Invisible Dust installation at Jesus Green Lido, Cambridge, curated by Alice Sharp

2011

Blind Petunias, screening on 17 February at Cardiff University School of Biosciences

2011

Are Your Petunias Actually Transgenic?, (solo) Test Bed, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, curated by Antony Mottershead

2010

Miniscule, Oblong Gallery, London

2010

Suffolk Showcase 2010, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk

2010

The Late Shift, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich

2009

Animated, Wysing Arts Contemporaries, Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Cambridgeshire

2009

The New Botanists, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff

2008

Kettle's Yard Open 2008, Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge

2006

Watch My Garden Grow, solo exhibition, The Meunier House, Caldecote, Cambridge

1999

Galerij DeGriffioen, Sint-Gillis, Belgium

1999

CCRix, ‘Marieke Pauwels / Anne-Mie Melis’, Deurne-Antwerp, Belgium

1997

Stadsfeestzaal, Antwerp, Belgium

1996

Cultureel Centrum Berchem, Antwerp, Belgium

1996

Closed Circuit, solo exhibition, Bernarduscentrum, Antwerp, Belgium

1991

Stadsfeestzaal, Antwerp, Belgium

1989

Iritis, Flux introduces Young Belgian Artists, De Beweeging, Antwerp, Belgium

1989

Barbaro89, SpazioUno, Firenze, Italy

1989

Kapelgalerie, solo exhibition, Sint Maria, Antwerp, Belgium

1988

Akademiegalerij, solo exhibition, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium

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