Apperception, 2015
Exhibited in Mel Dare's solo exhibition A Momentary Considerations at Art Collective WA - Subiaco, Wa. 20 August 2015 – 12 September 2015.
Exhibited in Mel Dare's solo exhibition A Momentary Considerations at Art Collective WA - Subiaco, Wa. 20 August 2015 – 12 September 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
Exhibited in PWCK: 7EAVEN at Nyisztor Gallery 26 September - 18 October 2015. This was the 7th year of the annual exhibition Pure Contemplation Without Knowledge curated by Ron Nyisztor.
This painting is part of a body of work which began in the Czech Republic while visiting my mother’s homeland. Immersed in its beauty and history full of dark passages I developed a further interest in the notion of self. How the individual is constructed,
Spectrum Project Space, Edith Cowan University - Mount Lawley, Western Australia. 15 - 28 May 2015. In 100 days Mel Dare finds many questions and some answers. Through her work the artist has delved into many different but interrelating subjects including subjectivity, psychology, identity, time and perspective.
This body of work began in the Czech Republic while I was visiting my mother’s homeland. Immersed in such a long history full of beauty and dark passages I developed a further interest in the notion of self. How an individual is constructed, threaded together
Whether by choice or without conscious moment by moment we are continually gathering and discarding points of reference throughout our lifetime. Ways of understanding who we are; determining how we relate to the world. Influenced by our family, culture, geography, and biology. Effecting the way
Versions of the past imprinted on the facades of the buildings of Perth. The decorative remains of bygone eras. Decorations constructed, borrowed, transplanted from other eras, other cultures, other lands. Reading the stories of white settlement I began to see distorted patterns which became white