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).
Chicory Flexine at G39 UNIT(e)
Artist in Residence, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium
Coventry Biennial
Manor Park Playground Project Penarth, Public Art Commission, EMP Projects, Rhôd and Johana Hartwig, Roger Lougher and Anne-Mie Melis
UNIT(e) Residency at g39, Cardiff, in collaboration with Roger Lougher
Commissioned by Oriel Davies the flora project, coinciding with solo presentation at Oriel Myrddin
Research and Development Award supported by Arts Council Wales, Artist in Residence at PDR, International Centre for Product Design and Research, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Commission / Research Artist in Residence, Duke’s Wood Project, Ordinary Culture, Nottingham
Hybrid, Peter Hulsmans & Anne-Mie Melis, Artist in Residence in Lokaal 01, Antwerp, Belgium
The Leverhulme Trust, Artist in Residence Award, School of Biosciences at Cardiff University
Arts Council England selected Escalator Artist
Research and Development Award, Grants for the Arts, Art Council England, East
Artist in Residence, Addenbrooks Hospital Cambridge, outreach project in collaboration with Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination
The closer we are, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
Coventry Biennial
Y Lle Celf, National Eisteddfod of Wales
Slow Landscape' (solo) at Arcade Cardiff, Queens Arcade, Cardiff
Silent Stage, Kukiskes, Lithuania, group exhibition, interdisciplinary project, curated by Mona Casey and Tadas Stalyga
UNIT(e) Summer School at G39 (with Roger Lougher), Cardiff
A New Niche for Nature, flora commission / solo show at Oriel Myrddin Gallery, commission by Oriel Davies Gallery and supported by ACW
flora touring, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth
Watch My Garden Grow, Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan (solo)
flora, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Powys and touring in Wales
Drawing 2015, Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen
Underground, Cefn Coed Coal and Steam Museum, Neath.
Dukeswood Project with Ordinary Culture, Nottingham, supported by the Arts Council England
Colony 13, curated by Lee Williams, Cardigan
Hybrid, Artist in Residence at Lokaal01, with artist Peter Hulsmans, Antwerp, Belgium, supported by the Flemish Community in Belgium
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
Feeling the Pressure (Climate Change 2), Open Exhibition at Rhyl Library, Museum & Arts Centre, Denbighshire, North Wales
Rhôd 2012, curated by Kathryn Campbell Dodd, Melin Glonc, Drefelin, Carmarthenshire, West Wales
TERRA, Jerwood Encounters, Jerwood Space, London and touring to Grizedale Forest, Lake District, curated by Hayley Skipper and Antony Mottershead
Blind Petunias, The Late Shift at the Forum, Norwich in collaboration with the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Blind Petunias, Cambridge Science Festival, as part of the Invisible Dust installation at Jesus Green Lido, Cambridge, curated by Alice Sharp
Blind Petunias, screening on 17 February at Cardiff University School of Biosciences
Are Your Petunias Actually Transgenic?, (solo) Test Bed, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, curated by Antony Mottershead
Miniscule, Oblong Gallery, London
Suffolk Showcase 2010, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk
The Late Shift, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Animated, Wysing Arts Contemporaries, Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Cambridgeshire
The New Botanists, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff
Kettle's Yard Open 2008, Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge
Watch My Garden Grow, solo exhibition, The Meunier House, Caldecote, Cambridge
Galerij DeGriffioen, Sint-Gillis, Belgium
CCRix, ‘Marieke Pauwels / Anne-Mie Melis’, Deurne-Antwerp, Belgium
Stadsfeestzaal, Antwerp, Belgium
Cultureel Centrum Berchem, Antwerp, Belgium
Closed Circuit, solo exhibition, Bernarduscentrum, Antwerp, Belgium
Stadsfeestzaal, Antwerp, Belgium
Iritis, Flux introduces Young Belgian Artists, De Beweeging, Antwerp, Belgium
Barbaro89, SpazioUno, Firenze, Italy
Kapelgalerie, solo exhibition, Sint Maria, Antwerp, Belgium
Akademiegalerij, solo exhibition, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium