Traces:

The ephemeral qualities of time and decay, investigating marks and impressions left after ‘life’ exploring the traces of what might be left behind, physically and spiritually.

Mixd Media. Found objects, clay, paint, threads, hair.

Home Maker : Mixed media – A1 – A4

‘The shadows that cross the day‘ – Homemaker -Mixed Media. A1

Mixed Media : (3 D ) Sculpture, found objects. clay , paint.

Retaining Knowledge from the Book Worm. Mixed Media - Cyanotype impressions of book worm holes printed onto found paper and white chalk pencil.

Lemon trope of decay: Wax pencil on tracing paper, hung with red thread.

2. Murmuration: ‘our fears like starlings’.

Female metal health and its taboos, expectations, treatments and acknowledgements. Taking these delicate, frightening and often hidden emotions  to more  prominent  level  of acceptance, understanding and tolerance.

Drawing: Charcoal, mixed media

Murmuration 3D Sculpture work. : Mixed media with detritus/dust

Exploring the materiality of Detritus – Forms, household machinery, trope of the female domestic.

Encased:

New Work :

Machine Pelts – working with the detritus of the inners of domestic machinery – concerning the notion of the ‘ female and the homemaker’ / ‘womans work’

3. Femaleness: – ( Potential Collaboration )

‘Femaleness’. This I believe holds identifiable traits and is concerned with an underpinning narrative to unite and collaborate cross cultures, ethnicity and gender.

Semiotic : ‘Veneration’ Shrine to the Female.

( postcard collaborative project )

‘Venerate’ is a work concerning the essential and pared back notions of ‘femaleness’. Exploring across culture and ethnicity it comes from a place of belonging, shared experiences and the common bonds of being female and what that necessitates within us. The symbolism created around it is thus reminiscent of a ‘shrine’ hinting at the physical essence of the female ( and all who identify with it ) and her exulted and venerated state using the international sign for the female.’

( Melissa Veitch 2024)

Stencil sprayed onto building debris : A1

Pressure Gage: Collage, red thread and barograph paper;

Collected and discarded: Investigating notions of perfection : Botanical and ‘found botanical’

‘Found ‘ Botanical detritus No. 1

‘Found ‘ Botanical detritus No. 2.

Cyanotype of decay:

Lemon trope of decay: Wax pencil on tracing paper, hung with red thread. Interactive art.