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Melanie Jayne Sancho Taylor

  • About
    • Biography
    • CV
  • Exhibitions
    • Upcoming
    • Past
  • Projects
  • News
  • Contact

CV


Qualifications

2023 Certified Photo Manager, The Photo Managers
2021  Completion of Managing and Preserving Photographs, Film and Sound Module, the University of Dundee, Scotland
2017        Graduate Certificate of Information Management (High Distinction), RMIT University, Melbourne
2010        Masters of Fine Art by Coursework (High Distinction), RMIT University, Melbourne
2006        Bachelor of Fine Arts (Photography) (High Distinction), RMIT University, Melbourne


Solo Exhibitions  

2024 Item Level, (upcoming), Five Walls, Melbourne
2017        Interweaving Archives, Arxiu Comarcal de l'Urgell, Tàrrega, Spain
2016        All The Gardens I Could Find, Blindside, Melbourne
2015        Variations [Re-orientation], WTA Emerging Art Centre, Barcelona                                                                                                                             
2015        A Way With It All, The Ferry Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand  
2013        A Way With It All, Beam Contemporary, Melbourne
2013        Acts of Re-ordering, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane
2013        Certain Geometry, G3 Art Space, City of Kingston, Melbourne
2011        The Room for Ordering Memory, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2011        Cataloguing the Composite, Beam Contemporary, Melbourne
2011        On the Rise, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat
2011        Some Sort of Split, Summer Studio Residency, Blindside, Melbourne
2010       Viewing Room, First Site Gallery, Melbourne


Selected Collaborations

2015        Concrete Post 3, Collaboration with Concrete Post, Raum 281, Bonn, Germany
2015        Stream: A Room for the Conscious Mind, Collaboration with Laura Thompson and Samuel Stewart, Fringe Festival, Melbourne
2015        Concrete Post 2, Collaboration with Concrete Post, Project Space/Spare Room, RMIT University
2015        Wrapped in Culture, Collaboration with Rushdi Anwar, Ne' na Contemporary Art Space, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2014        Shelf, Collaboration with Concrete Post, SITUATION symposium/exhibition, Design Hub, RMIT University
2014        Constructing Absence Part III, Collaboration with Eye Collective, Mailbox Artspace, Melbourne
2013        Summer Studio Residency, Collaboration with Eye Collective, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
2012        Shared Spaces, Collaboration with Eye Collective, First Site Gallery, Melbourne
2011        Constructing Absence: Part Two, Eye Collective, KINGS ARI, Melbourne
2011        Constructing Absence: Part One, Eye Collective, Dear Patti Smith, Melbourne


Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 Check the website for details, Kuiper Projects, Brisbane
2019 Ode to Marion, curated by Boe-Lin Bastian, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Valley City Council
2017 Excavation, co-curated by Simone Hine & Kyle Weise, Centre for Classics and Archaeology, Melbourne University
2015        Wandering Archive, co-curated by Simone Hine & Kyle Weise, Blindside ARI, Melbourne
2014        View from the Window, co-curated Jason Mcquoid & Vivian Cooper Smith Wallflower Photo Media Gallery, Mildura
2014        View from the Window, co-curated Jason Mcquoid & Vivian Cooper-Smith, Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne
2014        Lens Mist Award, Kingston Arts, City of Kingston, Melbourne
2013        Wandering Archive, Scope Miami, Miami Beach
2012        Orientation, Beam Contemporary, Melbourne
2012        Matter and Space, Ne Na Contemporary Art Space, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2011        (Untitled), Sardam Gallery, Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan
2011        Space and the City, COALESCE ARI. Eckersley’s Open Space Gallery, Melbourne
2011        Oh the Places You Will Go, Rae and Bennett Gallery, Melbourne
2010        Master of Fine Art Graduation Show, RMIT School of Art, Gossard Project Space, Melbourne
2010        Marking Time, Brunswick Art Space, Melbourne
 


Selected Awards and Residencies

2017        Artist in Residence, Arxiu Comarcal de l'Urgell, Tàrrega, Spain
2016        Artist in Residence, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia
2015        Artist in Residence, Werner Thoni Emerging Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain
2015        Artist in Residence, Ne’na Contemporary Art Space, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2014        Artist in Residency Program, Australia-Thailand Institute, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
2014        Lens Mist Award Finalist – Highly Commended, Kingston Arts, City of Kingston
2013        Artist in Residence, 33 Officina Creativa,Toffia, Italy
2012        Artist in Residence, Seventh Gallery Summer Studio, Collaboration with Eye Collective, Melbourne
2012        Artist in Residence, Mustarinda, Hyrynsalmi, Finland
2012        Australian-Thailand Institute Funding, Department of Foreign Affairs
2012        Victorian Multicultural Commission Project Grant
2011        Art Start Grant, Australia Council of the Arts
2010        Artist in Residence, Summer Studio Award, Blindside, Melbourne
2010        Vice Chancellor’s List Award for Masters in Fine Art,RMIT University, Melbourne
2010        RMIT Link Arts Funding


Publications and Reviews

2018        “Archive in Practice: An Imagined Exhibition”, published for Archivoz
2016        “All the Gardens I Could Find”, exhibition catalogue essay by Philip Goldswain.
2016        “All the Gardens I Could Find”, exhibition catalogue essay by Timmi Tsapaliaris
2015        “Concrete Post”, exhibition catalogue essay by Andrew Tetzlaff and David Thomas
2014        “View from the Window” exhibition catalogue essay by Christopher Williams-Wynn
2013        “Wandering Archive”, exhibition catalogue essay by Simone Hine and Kyle Weise
2013        “Shelf Life”, Sat 19 Jan, Agnes So
2012        The Age, Sat 9 June, ‘Around the Galleries’ by Dan Rule
2012        The Age, Sat 10 March, ‘Around the Galleries’ by Dan Rule
2011        The Age, Sat 27 August, ‘Around the Galleries’ by Dan Rule
2011        Three Thousand Magazine, ‘Eye Collective Exhibition Opening’ by Rachel Elliot Jones, issue 301
2011        “The Spaces Between”, exhibition catalogue essay by Sarah Edwards

 

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