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Melanie Jayne Sancho Taylor's practice explores the use of photography as a site for ordering and archiving memory.
She works with text components and installation strategies to display her extensive personal photographic archive; within these images she investigates the transitory meanings of memory, loss, absence and the complexity of time.
Melanie holds a Master of Fine Arts (2010) from RMIT University, Melbourne, and a Graduate Certificate in Information Management (2017) from RMIT University and specialist training in Managing and Preserving Photographs, Film and Sound (2021) from the University of Dundee, Scotland.
Melanie has exhibited her work extensively in Australia and internationally. She has been awarded grants from Australia Council for the Arts, Australia-Thailand Institute, Ministry of Culture (Government of Catalonia), Victorian Multicultural Commission and RMIT University and residencies in Australia, Finland, France, Italy, Spain and Thailand.
Alongside her artistic practice, Melanie has worked across the library and archive sector for over a decade at the State Library of Victoria and the British Library, London. She is the founder of Your Photo Legacy and a member of the collective Concrete Post
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"Her practice is as much concerned with the continued processes of interpreting her personal archive of images, as it is concerned with generating new images. Images are carefully arranged within the gallery, or within the space of a single print. In Taylor’s practice, images are never fixed but instead, through a dynamic concept of the archive, become subject to constant reinterpretation and reconfiguration. This process brings to light previously dormant narrative and graphic connections between images and even between exhibitions. Taylor’s images are constantly unboxed: this is an archival practice defined by interruption rather than stasis."
Kyle Weise and Simone Hine.
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I acknowledge the Bunurong people of the Kulin nation as the traditional owners and custodians of this land that I live and work on.
I pay my respect to their Elders, past and present and emerging.