Melinda Harper
Melinda Harper video tour
OLSEN GalleryJune 2021
Video tour of Melinda Harper 2021 exhibition at OLSEN Gallery
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Melinda Harper Recent Paintings & Textiles
Art at work: Melinda Harper
Castlemaine Art MuseumJune 2020
From exuberant and optical through to pensive and moody, Castlemaine based artist Melinda Harper’s abstraction is endlessly absorbing and uplifting. Inspired by her lived experience of the visual world, Harper’s small precise paintings, watercolours and embroideries are equally influenced by early 20th-century abstraction and mid-century modernists. We are delighted to say CAM is currently working with Melinda towards an exhibition at CAM in the not too distant future. Harper shares with us something of her working life in this email interview.
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Courtney Kidd
Jan 2011
What Now?
MELINDA HARPER
Your dazzling paintings in the 1990’s with right, clashing colours, attracted a lot of attention. What have you been working on lately?
I’m focussing on the show coming up in March. It’s made up of embroidery works, small scale about 30 by 30 centimetres in size and all done by hand. Their embroidery mesh is spray-painted, they’re like the way I work with paper. _continue reading_Click here to download PDF