Commissions & Awards |
2025 | Arts Council England, DYCP grant
Creative Kernow Associates x Cove Park Residency |
2023 | Hospital Rooms commission
Arts Council England project grant |
2015 | Shortlisted for Exeter Phoenix Artists’ Moving Image Commission |
2013 | Shortlisted for ‘ArchIsle’ Residency, Jersey |
2012 | Open Studio, Tate Modern
Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England |
2011 | The World in London, The Photographers’ Gallery, London |
2007 | Nominated for ArtSway Production Residency |
2007 | Arts Trail, The Big Chill, curated by Alice Sharp |
2006 | Shortlisted for Arts Council England International Fellowship, Finland
Nominated for PLAT(T)FORM 07, Zurich
Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England, London |
1994 | The Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Studentship |
Conferences |
2024 | Picturing the Unseen, MAC Birmingham - curated with Hettie Judah & Sally Butcher |
2023 | (M)otherhood: Barbara Hepworth Art & Life, Tate St Ives. Curator. |
Education |
1994-1996 | MFA, University of British Columbia, Canada. Tutor: Jeff Wall |
1987-1991 | BA (Hons) First Class, University of Leeds |
Solo Exhibitions |
2022 | As It Is Seen, Grays Wharf |
2012 | The Fall, Campbell Works, London |
2007 | Melanie Stidolph, Keith Talent Gallery, London |
2005 | Melanie Stidolph, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland |
2004 | Interior Life, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland |
2001 | Common, Fremantle, London |
1997 | Shallows, Kamloops Art Gallery, Canada |
Group Exhibitions |
2025 | Re:Vision, East Wing Biennial, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London |
2024 | Manchester Contemporary with Creative Kernow.
Submerged Bodies, Exeter, curated by MA Curation students, University of Exeter |
2023 | RWA Photo Open
We Are Floating in Space, Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange |
2022 | Exeter Contemporary Open, Exeter Phoenix |
2021 | A strong defence of delicate things, Anna Lucas, Melanie Stidolph and Alice Walton, Auction House, Redruth
Trethvor,
Newlyn & The Exchange Gallery
Synesthesia, online, The Bridge, Plymouth Uni / Cultivator |
2020 | Cine Sisters, Plymouth Art Weekender |
2019 | Scenes, Newlyn Art Gallery |
2017 | Future Imperfect symposium, Plymouth University
Circle Contemporary screenings, Cornwall
Black Box, Uni Creative Arts Farnham |
2016 | Omgyjer Glusek, Peckham 24, South Kiosk gallery, London
The Voyeurs, screenings, Porthmeor Studios
All Out of Love, film programme, Tate St Ives |
2015 | Eventually Everything Connects, Mandy Lee Jandrell / Mel Stidolph, Solent Showcase
Acts of Looking, curated by Hannah Starkey, online
Except The Mirror (curated), Evidence: Format Festival, Derby |
2014 | Open Screening, Whitechapel Gallery, London
PIGDOGANDMONKEYFESTOS, Air Space Gallery, Stoke on Trent |
2013 | Album II, 5 Years Gallery, London |
2012 | Is That It, Brighton Photo Fringe
The World in London (Commission), The Photographers’ Gallery offsite project |
2011 | Nine Point Perspective, Hotshoe Gallery, London
Harbingers, Centrum, Berlin |
2010 | Make, Believe, Blank Gallery, Brighton
Rhizomatic, Departure Gallery, London
Running and Standing, The Agency, London |
2009 | The Shandy Show, The Arts Gallery, London
Territory, Otter Gallery, University of Chichester
The Russell Herron Collection, Sartorial Contemporary Art, London |
2008 | Call Back, The Exchange, Penzance
Three BY Three (2), Yinka Shonibare’s space, London
Art Trail (Commission), The Big Chill Festival, Eastnor
Curious Nature, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
Curious Nature, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London |
2007 | Pulse Art Fair, Miami
Pass the Picture, Goethe Institut, Berlin |
2006 | YearO6 Art Fair, London
Real, Fake and Imagined, Permanent Gallery off-site, Brighton
To a Watery Grave, St Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada
Scope Art Fair, New York |
2005 | Aqua Art Miami, Florida
Torn Stasis, Keith Talent Gallery, London
This Show is Ribbed for Her Pleasure, Cynthia Broan Gallery, NY |
2004 | The Shandy Show, The Shandy Foundation, London - inc. Paul Noble, Mark Titchner, Sarah Lucas
Freehouse, MOT off-site project, London
PILOT:1, London, nominated by Alistair Robinson
Lilith, MOT, London, inc. Runa Islam, Sonia Boyce
To a Watery Grave, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, Canada |
2003 | Scrambled, MOT, London |
2002 | Worthy Subjects: Photographs from the Kamloops Art Gallery Permanent Collection, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada |
1999 | Lapsus, Five Years, London, curated by John Roberts |
1998 | Home Base, Kamloops Art Gallery, Canada |
1997 | Browser, Roundhouse, Vancouver, Canada
Good Sports, Burnaby Art Gallery, Canada |
1996 | Endless Summer, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Canada |
Press |
2023 | 'Trying to conceive: a photographic journey in pictures' The Guardian |
2020 | 'Last Summer', interview, Photomonitor.co.uk
'A body, in parts, interjects' Lizzie Lloyd for Synaesthesia |
2015 | 'Except The Mirror' blogspot, Pete McGovern |
2012 | 'On Falling' Interview with Christiane Monarchi, Photomonitor.co.uk
'Photographing Apples', Daniel C Blight, varioussmallfires.co.uk
‘Tate Blog’, www.tate.org.uk
‘Photo Soup at Unit 24’, The Up Coming, blog |
2010 | ‘Brighton Photo Fringe’, Hotshoe magazine blog
‘The Anachronistic Album’, The Times, March 2010 |
2008 | ‘Art Trail 2008’ www.a-n.co.uk
‘Curious Nature’, www.artcornwall.org
‘The Emma Hart Biennale Radio Show’, Resonance FM, 14 Feb |
2007 | ‘Melanie Stidolph’, The Art Newspaper, Frieze Art Fair, 12 Oct |
2006 | ‘2006 Critics Picks’, www.akimbo.biz
‘Seven Says’, Nicky Catley, Sunday Telegraph Magazine, October |
2005 | ‘When I Lived in Modern Times’, www.talesofnewcastle.net
‘Lust and Found’, James Westcott, ArtNet
‘This show is ribbed for her pleasure’, Michael Paulson, NYArts Magazine
‘Interior Life’, Northern Metro |
2004 | ‘Lilith’, The Guardian, The Guide |
Publications |
2024 | Hospital Rooms, Cornwall Project, essays Martin Holman |
2022 | 'Endless Reproduction' photobook |
2020 | 'Last Summer', Nu journal www.nureview.org
'A body in parts interjects' Lizzie Lloyd, Synesthesia project |
2014 | ‘I wanted the best for you’, Playground, Tate Learning |
2012 | ‘Behind the Image’ Anna Fox and Natasha Caruana |
2009 | ‘The Russell Herron Collection’, Sartorial Contemporary Art, exhibition publication |
2005 | Miser & Now, issue 7 |