Melanie Comber:cv
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2022The Walks Land Residency Exhibition Galloper Sands Contemporary
, Alde Valley Suffolk.
- 2021From This Land Galloper Sands Contemporary
, Alde Valley Suffolk.
- 2013Tourist The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong.
- 2011No Man's Land The Fine Art Society, London.
- 2008Daytripper The Fine Art Society, London.
- 2007Snowglobe The Fine Art Society, London.
- 2005Long Distance The Fine Art Society, London.
- 2000Melanie Comber Hiscox Art Café, London.
- 200066 Degrees, 33’ N, 18 degrees 01’W The Blue
Gallery, London.
- 1998Heavy Breathing The Blue Gallery, London.
- 1995Melanie Comber Paintings The Blue Gallery,
London.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2021Galloper Sands Contemporary Collections Suffolk
- 2021Truth in The Face of Reality Robert Berry Gallery New York (online)
- 2020The London Art Fair Osborne Samuel Gallery
- 2020Wells Art Contemporary Wells Cathedral Somerset
- 2020The Discerning Eye London
- 2019Space and Time Knightwebb Gallery London
- 2019Summer Exhibition Campden Gallery
- 2019The London Art Fair
- 2018Winter Exhibition Lemond Gallery Edinburgh
- 2018Another World Charity Auction Deutschebank Frieze London
- 2018The RWA 166 Annual Exhibition, Bristol
- 2018The Pittenweem Arts Festival 2018
- 2018The London Art Fair
- 2017The Discerning Eye Mall Galleries London
- 2017Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery London
- 2017The RWA Academy Open 165 Bristol
- 2017The Summer Exhibition The Royal Academy of Arts, London
- 2017London Art Fair with Osborne Samuel Gallery
- 2017Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary with Osborne Samuel Gallery
- 2016Art Miami with Osborne Samuel Gallery
- 2016Melanie Comber, Brendan Stuart Burns, Sean Henry at Osborne Samuel
Gallery, London
- 2016Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London
- 2016 The Alde Valley Spring Festival,Suffolk
- 2015 In Visual Dialogue, Unix Gallery New York
- 2015The Summer Exhibition 2015, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
- 2015The Alde Valley Spring Festival, Suffolk
- 2014Art Taipei, Taiwan
- 2013Wonder Works The Space Hong Kong
- 2013The Alde Valley Spring Festival Great Glemham, Suffolk
- 2012The Materiality Of Paint at the Fine Art Society September 6th - September 29th
- 2012The British Cut The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong.
- 2011 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London.
- 2011 Trans-Siberian Art Centre Kitchen Projects, Siberia.
- 2011 The Marmite Art Prize Central Art Gallery Tameside, Lanchester Gallery Projects Coventry, The Nunnery London.
- 2010 Small is Beautiful XXVIII Flowers Central, London.
- 2010 BFAMI Gala Charity Auction Christies, London.
- 2009 Volta Basel Fine Art Society, London.
- 2009 1984, DACS 25th Anniversary Exhibition The Kowalsky Gallery, London.
- 2009 British Painting of the Twentieth Century David Koetser Gallery, Zurich.
- 2008 Scope London Fine Art Society, London.
- 2008 Scope Miami USA Fine Art Society, Miami.
- 2007 Select Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh, Scotland.
- 2007 Monochromed 2 The Fine Art Society, London.
- 2003 Three Bcontemporary, London.
- 2002 Balmy Daze Houldsworth Fine Art, London.
- 2001 Line Up Gallery Fine, London.
- 2001 British Abstract Painting 2001 Flowers East, London.
AWARDS
- 2011 Exhibitor, The Marmite Painting Prize.
- 1997 Prizewinner, The Nat West Art Prize, London.
- 1994 Finalist, SBC European Art Award, London.
- 1993 Finalist, The New Art Award, Cubitt Street Gallery,London.
PUBLICATIONS
- Heavy Breathing, The Blue Gallery, Published by The PaleGreen Press (1998).
- The Nat West Art Prize 1997, Published by Weald Press.
- Artworks, British and German Contemporary Art 1960 - 2000 (ISBN 1 85894 118 0) Published by Merrell.
- British Abstract Painting 2001 Matthew Collings.
(ISBN 1 902945271)Published by Momentum.
- Long Distance, The Fine Art Society (ISBN 0 905062191).
- Snowglobe, The Fine Art Society (ISBN 978 0905062 396).
- Daytripper, The Fine Art Society (ISBN 978 0905062 556).
- Monochromed, The Fine Art Society (ISBN 0 905 062 302).
COLLECTIONS
- Deutschebank
- Coutts,
- RBS,
- Hiscox,
- RGB Underwriting,
- Jupiter,
- Pantheon Ventures,
- The David Roberts Foundation,
- Sainsburys and numerous private collections in the UK and abroad.
EDUCATION
- 1990Maidstone College of Art, Kent
Foundation Diploma
- 1993Wimbledon School of Art, London
BA Hons Fine Art Painting
- 1994Chelsea College of Art, London
MA Fine Art Painting
WORK EXPERIENCE
- 2004Wimbledon School of Art, Visiting Lecturer.
- 1999The Reykjavik School of Arts and Crafts, Iceland, Visiting Lecturer.
- 1995The Victoria and Albert Museum