Recent Paintings
Melanie Errey
Current Projects 2023 - 2024
Story Portraits
My current series explores our collective subconscious and its external manifestations, emotions seen in hands and faces, and the recall of dreams upon waking. Inspired by Tonee Messiah's insights on intuition and the subconscious in abstract painting (Knowingness and the Intuitive in Painting 2017). Portraits that show more than the physical with movement and the idea of a life well lived.
Sneaky Hand
My current series explores our collective subconscious and its external manifestations, emotions seen in hands and faces, and the recall of dreams upon waking. Inspired by Tonee Messiah's insights on intuition and the subconscious in abstract painting (Knowingness and the Intuitive in Painting 2017). Using body parts to tell the story and deeper contextualize the subtleties in narrative throughout a body of work.
Recent Projects 2021 - 2023
glorious Downfall at ‘House Conspiracy’ 2023
An exhibition of human movement that confronts common fears and assumptions about dancing and losing yourself in your own thoughts.
From elation to embarrassment, and the excitement of making a huge mistake but somehow pulling it off at the last second.
Abstract acrylic painting to celebrate imperfection and random organic shapes in movement contrasted by organised architectural context.
Detail of ‘Dancing Alone Together’ installation of hanging acrylic paintings on transparent materials.
Photographs by @josephwlynch
Secret Sitter - Acrylic Portrait
‘How Long Are You With Me?’
Artfully queer - Acrylic stencil
‘Holding’
Late night sketches - acrylic
‘Move’
Work from ‘Loo Solo’ 2022
‘Lost in thought, a rare occasion’
Painting transferred to Majolica Pottery.