MELLONY TAPER | ARTIST
Interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of trad and new media
Mellony Taper is an interdisciplinary artist, currently working at the intersection of trad and digital media: painting, drawing, photography, exploratory digital creation strategies and time-based media.
Taper works with traditional, digital and time based media. Her work is about people and places; She describe them variously as psychogeographies, palimpsests, timescapes, visual archaeology.
With a working process that is endlessly iterative, a piece may go through many infinitesimal, incremental changes in its evolution. Working digitally means that each evolution can be saved in its own right, creating a succession of visual echoes. This approach facilitates working in series’, producing bodies of work connected to a particular place or idea.
Known for her coastal bodies of work, Taper has recently turned her attention to the urban environments of the city where she lives, exploring daily experience of urban environments; the visual archaeology of the urban spaces we inhabit, of cityscapes at street level: - the incremental layerings of time, and human imprints, like layers of bill posters on a derelict building.
Taper works with traditional, digital and time based media. Her work is about people and places; She describe them variously as psychogeographies, palimpsests, timescapes, visual archaeology.
With a working process that is endlessly iterative, a piece may go through many infinitesimal, incremental changes in its evolution. Working digitally means that each evolution can be saved in its own right, creating a succession of visual echoes. This approach facilitates working in series’, producing bodies of work connected to a particular place or idea.
Known for her coastal bodies of work, Taper has recently turned her attention to the urban environments of the city where she lives, exploring daily experience of urban environments; the visual archaeology of the urban spaces we inhabit, of cityscapes at street level: - the incremental layerings of time, and human imprints, like layers of bill posters on a derelict building.
