Narratives

“Narratives continues an exploration in my work through which painting and photography are brought together in conversation, presenting open-ended narratives around the people and their relationship to one another, and the landscape surrounding them,” says Mellor.
 
“I’ve titled the exhibition Narratives because I’m interested in the storytelling potential of images that have a sense of ambiguity – pictures without one clear or definitive reading. Viewers can then reflect on their own memories and experiences to respond to the work and explore personal readings of each image.”
 
Recomposing archival photographs in acrylic and wash – blurs, blemishes, foxing and all – enables Mellor to draw attention to their physical history as time-travelling objects.
 
“The paintings speak of place and Country, of people and ceremony and the emotions of life, offering narratives of history and memory, a remembering of the world,” Mellor says.