Melanie Jackson

"Melanie Jackson has been developing an aesthetic that allows her to reflect on the manner in which she is implicated in the condition of her subjects…She tries out tactics of representation which remain provisional rather than definitive, treating the gallery as a stage for experimentation with art roles. Here is mimicry, documentation, myth fabrication, cultural voyeurism, performance, animation, political commentary, music, installation, craft and the cultivation of aesthetic delight. The irresolvable contradictions in this set of manoeuvres keeps her own complicity visible as part of the circulation of meanings around her art."-Mark Harris, Art In America

Works

Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid: Share of Throat, film still, Wellcome Collection, London, 2023.

Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid: Share of Throat, Wellcome Collection, London, 2023. Installation views by the Wellcome Collection / Steven Pocock and the artist.

Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid: Share of Throat, Wellcome Collection, London, 2023. Installation view by the Wellcome Collection / Steven Pocock and the artist.
Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid: Share of Throat, film still, Wellcome Collection, London, 2023.
Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid: Share of Throat, Wellcome Collection, London, 2023. Installation view by the Wellcome Collection / Steven Pocock and the artist.

Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid: Share of Throat, Wellcome Collection, London, 2023. Installation views by the Wellcome Collection / Steven Pocock and the artist.

Melanie Jackson, Spekyng Rybawdy, Block 336, London, 2022.
Melanie Jackson, Spekyng Rybawdy, Block 336, London, 2022.
Melanie Jackson, Spekyng Rybawdy, Block 336, London, 2022.
Melanie Jackson, Spekyng Rybawdy, Block 336, London, 2022.
Melanie Jackson, Spekyng Rybawdy, Block 336, London, 2022.
Melanie Jackson, Spekyng Rybawdy, Block 336, London, 2022.
Melanie Jackson, Spekyng Rybawdy, Block 336, London, 2022.
Melanie Jackson, Rouge Flambé, San Mei Gallery, London, 2023. Installation view by Jack Elliot Edwards.
Melanie Jackson, Rouge Flambé, San Mei Gallery, London, 2023. Installation view by Jack Elliot Edwards.
Melanie Jackson, Rouge Flambé, San Mei Gallery, London, 2023. Installation view by Jack Elliot Edwards.
Melanie Jackson, Rouge Flambé, San Mei Gallery, London, 2023. Installation view by Jack Elliot Edwards.

Melanie Jackson, Rouge Flambé, film still, 2023.

Melanie Jackson, Rouge Flambé, San Mei Gallery, London, 2023. Installation view by Jack Elliot Edwards.

Melanie Jackson, spekyng rybawy, (clip), 2012

Melanie Jackson, spekyng rybawy, (still), Duration 4:14, 2012
Melanie Jackson, spekyng rybawy, (still), Duration 4:14, 2012
Melanie Jackson, spekyng rybawy, (still), Duration 4:14, 2012
Melanie Jackson, spekyng rybawy, (still), Duration 4:14, 2012
Melanie Jackson, The Inextinguishable, (gif), 2020
Melanie Jackson, The Inextinguishable, (gif), 2020
Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid, Grand Union, Birmingham, 2018
Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid, Grand Union, Birmingham, 2018
Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid, Grand Union, Birmingham, 2018
Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid, Grand Union, Birmingham, 2018
Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid, Grand Union, Birmingham, 2018
Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid, 2018, still from digital video
Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid, Grand Union, Birmingham, 2018
Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid, Grand Union, Birmingham, 2018
Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid, Grand Union, Birmingham, 2018
Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid, Grand Union, Birmingham, 2018
Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid, Grand Union, Birmingham, 2018
Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid, 2018, still from digital video
Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid, 2018, still from digital video
Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid, Grand Union, Birmingham, 2018
Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid, Grand Union, Birmingham, 2018
Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid, Grand Union, Birmingham, 2018
Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid, 2018, still from digital video
Melanie Jackson, The Urpflanze (part 1), Drawing Room, 2010
Melanie Jackson, The Urpflanze (part 2), Drawing Room, 2010
Melanie Jackson, The Urpflanze (part 1 & part 2), Drawing Room, London, 2010
Melanie Jackson, The Urpflanze (part 1 & part 2), Drawing Room, London, 2010
Melanie Jackson, Transformism, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 2013
Melanie Jackson,The Urpflanze (part 2), (still), 2013
Melanie Jackson, The Urpflanze (part 2), (still), 2013
Melanie Jackson, Transformism, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 2013
Melanie Jackson, Transformism, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 2013
Melanie Jackson, Transformism, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 2013
Melanie Jackson, Transformism, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 2013
Melanie Jackson, Transformism, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 2013
Melanie Jackson, Transformism, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 2013
Melanie Jackson, Transformism, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 2013
Melanie Jackson, The Urpflanze (part 2), (still), 2013
Melanie Jackson, The Urpflanze (part 2), (still), 2013
Melanie Jackson, Giving Suck (Marie Antoinette as Hebe), Drawing Biennale, The Drawing Room, London, 2015
Melanie Jackson, The Urpflanze (part 1), Drawing Room, London, 2010
Melanie Jackson, The Urpflanze: The Primal Plant: Plants of The Future By Melanie Jackson & Esther Leslie, (newspaper), Drawing Room Publications, 2010
Melanie Jackson, Market Stall, Fordham Gallery, London, 2010
Melanie Jackson, Market, Fordham Gallery, London, 2010
Melanie Jackson, Made in China, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 2008
Melanie Jackson, Made in China, (still), 2005
Melanie Jackson, Made in China, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 2008
Melanie Jackson, Made in China, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 2008
Melanie Jackson, Made in China, (still), 2005
Melanie Jackson, Made in China, (still), 2005
Melanie Jackson, Made in China, (still), 2005
Melanie Jackson, Made in China, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2005
Melanie Jackson, Made in China, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2005
Melanie Jackson, Made in China, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2005
Melanie Jackson, Made in China, (still), 2005
Melanie Jackson, Some Things You Are Not Allowed to Send Around the World, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2003
Melanie Jackson, Some Things You Are Not Allowed to Send Around the World, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2003
Melanie Jackson, Some Things You Are Not Allowed to Send Around the World, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2003
Melanie Jackson, Some Things You Are Not Allowed to Send Around the World, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2003
Melanie Jackson, Some Things You Are Not Allowed to Send Around the World, (detail), Matts Gallery, London, 2003
Melanie Jackson, Some Things You Are Not Allowed to Send Around the World, (detail), Matts Gallery, London, 2003
Melanie Jackson, Some Things You Are Not Allowed to Send Around the World, (detail), Matts Gallery, London, 2003
Melanie Jackson, Some Things You Are Not Allowed to Send Around the World, (detail), Matts Gallery, London, 2003
Melanie Jackson, Some Things You Are Not Allowed to Send Around the World, (detail), Matts Gallery, London, 2003
Melanie Jackson, Some Things You Are Not Allowed to Send Around the World, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2003
Melanie Jackson, Some Things You Are Not Allowed to Send Around the World, (detail), Matts Gallery, London, 2003
Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid: Share of Throat, film still, Wellcome Collection, London, 2023.

Melanie Jackson, Deeper in the Pyramid: Share of Throat, film still, Wellcome Collection, London, 2023.

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