Aimee Melaugh
Aimee Melaugh is a painter based in Derry. She graduated with a First Class BA Honours Degree in Fine Art Painting in 2018 from the Belfast School of Art. Melaugh was recently shortlisted for the Robert Walter’s UK New Artist of the Year Award in collaboration with Saatchi Gallery in London and had her work exhibited at Saatchi Gallery in 2021. Melaugh had a solo exhibition at Hang Tough Contemporary in Dublin in 2022 and was selected to exhibit at the MAC Gallery in Belfast as part of ‘New Exits: 10 Years of Painting Shows in 2022.
Aimee Melaugh’s paintings explore ideas surrounding false personas through reflecting on the relationship between true identity and deceiving appearances. Her work can playfully hint at narcissistic tendencies and often examines the idea of exposing someone’s true authentic form after their mask has slipped and everything has been stripped away. Melaugh’s work focuses on concepts surrounding false realities with reference to film and literature as well. She often portrays this also responding to traumatic events taken place throughout history but hidden or altered by false historical narratives.
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Education
2014-2018 First Class Honours in Fine Art Painting BA Hons Ulster University, Belfast
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Handful of Notes, ArtisAnn Gallery, Belfast
2022 Featureless Fine, Hang Tough Contemporary, Dublin
2021 White Walls, Exhibition and Residency with Art Arcadia at St Augustine's Old Schoolhouse, Derry
2021 Online Exhibition, Ult-erior, Abridged, Curated by Gregory McCartney
2019 Fragmented, An tSeaneaglais - The Glassworks, Derry
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 NEW NOW: Part 1, Guts Gallery, London
2022 New Exits: 10 Years of Painting Shows, MAC Belfast, Curated by Hugh Mulholland & Dougal McKenzie
2022 Past, Present, Future, King House, Boyle Arts Festival
2021 UK New Artists (UKNA), Robert Walters Group, Saatchi Gallery, London
2021 Gallery 545 Group Exhibition, Contemporary Art of Northern Ireland, Blick Studios, Belfast
2021 Portrait of Northern Ireland: neither an elegy nor a manifesto, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
2021 Crossings, King House, Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon
2021 Gallery 545 Group Exhibition, Island Arts Centre Virtual Gallery
2020 It’s Pronounced AI m – ee, ArtisAnn Gallery Belfast
2019 Wild Tulips/1, Wild Tulips, Derry
2019 Gallery 545 Exhibition, Sea Holly Gallery, Belfast
2019 Gallery 545 Exhibition, Island Arts Centre, Lisburn
2019 Graduate Award Winners Exhibition, Belfast Print Workshop, PS² Belfast
2019 Alternate Perspective, Platform Arts Belfast
2019 Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, ArtisAnn Gallery Belfast
2018 Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum Belfast
2018 ArtisAnn Emerging Artist Group Exhibition, ArtisAnn Gallery Belfast
2018 Degree Show Belfast School of Art
Collections
Northern Ireland Civil Service Art Collection (Public)
Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s Permanent Collection (Public)
Ulster University Belfast Collection (Public)
Awards
2021 Top 10 in UK as part of Robert Walter’s UK New Artists in
collaboration with Saatchi Gallery
2018 Belfast Print Workshop Award
ArtisAnn Emerging Artist Award
Royal Ulster Academy Award