Winning, Melanie

I’ve always worked in the arts, as a performer and as a makeup artist and tutor at The V&A in London. I always wanted to go to art School and completed my degree in 2012. Soon after I exhibited in London’s Cork Street at the Medici Gallery and have since been featured artist twice in reclaim Magazine. I describe my work as magpie collective using reclaim to make lamps, digital arts, photography and painting. I create another world with a dream like surreal feel. People and faces are a theme I always go back to. There is a darkness to my art that I find funny and that keeps my dark side very happy.

I feel very lucky to have been able to make a living as an artist. I have worked with some amazing people at the most brilliant places in the world, including The V&A in London and The Royal Opera House. London has shaped me as an artist and I will always be grateful for that. I’m a magpie with my creativity, I make work on subjects close to my heart, usually dark in nature with a humorous twist, I would say I am a feminist, gently political, Pop Artist. I use reclaim in my work, I love it, it adds a certain cool quirkiness and helps to tell a story. It can be lighting up vintage mannequins, making old clocks into lamps, using skulls and bones, painting over used canvas and using beautiful old frames. I paint photograph and use digital techniques. I have been a featured artist in Reclaim Magazine twice and exhibited at the Medici Gallery in London Cork Street. I am also one half of Mel & Marcel with my musician husband, writing, performing and recording our original songs on taboo subjects, with projected visuals of films and artworks.

Melanie.winning@gmail.com
Instagram: @melsartlamps
www.melaniewinning.com