14/02/2017
The study of fabric series, 2017
Commissioned for the Joondalup Invitational Art Award 2017. 15 -28 October 2017 at Lakeside Centre - Joondalup, WA.
14/02/2017
The stories I tell myself, 2017
Underlying my 17 years of art practice has been an interest in how meaning is constructed. How we are defined and confined by the physiology, psychology, culture, geography and time we are born into and live. Contexts which inform us and give us meaning. Meaning
13/02/2017
The stories I tell myself 2, 2017
The starting point for this work began in 2013 in the Czech Republic when the artist revisited her mother’s homeland and developed a further interest in how an individual is constructed. Gentle strands and crude stitches forming the pattern of conditioning imposed by external and
13/02/2017
The weight of waiting, 2017
This artwork was commissioned for the eighth Stations of the Cross annual exhibition. Exhibiting: 8th - 17th April 2017 Wesley Church, Perth, WA 26th May - 11th June 2017 Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Geraldton, WA Running
25/02/2016
Olympia series, 2016
Exhibited in Steal at Linton & Kay Galleries (Perth City, Western Australia) 28 May - June 2016. Curated by Anna Sabadini. Steal is a group show that celebrates the ideas of other painters, even, yes, pinching them. This is a time-honoured tradition - it links with the past
14/02/2016
A thought in progress series, 2016
Meaning embeds itself one mark at a time. Poised wrist I wait. Every moment an intersection. Left, right, straight or do I stall? As the path becomes more obvious the direction becomes clear. Some possibilities diminish while others are exposed. I am interested in how we
14/02/2016
Constructing memory series (solo exhibition), 2016
Memories are mothers, lovers, bullies on a rampage. Protectors, seducers, tormentors. Drowning, smothering, saving us again and again. Images flash - pain, pleasure, ambivalence. Held in a present long since past, reminding. Solo exhibition by Mel Dare. 10th - 23rd October 2016 Peekaboo Gallery - Northbridge, Western Australia.
22/01/2016
Lines that Define series (exhibition), 2016
17 June - 3 July 2016 Paper Mountain ARI, Perth Lines that Define: the exploration of subjectivity and perspective by artists Olga Cironis and Mel Dare. Inspired by their personal narratives and migrant cultural contexts, Cironis and Dare produce socially-charged yet personal 3D and flatline works respectively. While
25/02/2015
Apperception, 2015
Exhibited in Mel Dare's solo exhibition A Momentary Considerations at Art Collective WA - Subiaco, Wa. 20 August 2015 – 12 September 2015.
25/02/2015
A momentary consideration series (solo exhibition), 2015
Caught between the past and future; programmed by culture and genetics we orientate and organise our lives using an underlying story which is threaded together one moment to the next. Catagorising and compartmentalising as we go. Most experiences forgotten before they reach consciousness. Others shoved