Melanie Stidolph

📣 Delighted that my video work ‘The next dawn, the next spring’ has been selected for Re:Vision, East Wing Biennial at Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, London.

The opening night is Wednesday 24th September, from 6.30pm. If you’re in town and would like to come please click here to book a free ticket to the event.

Through a wide-ranging selection of contemporary artwork and an exciting slate of events throughout 2025-2027, RE:VISION urges audiences to interrogate and question: Who writes history? Who has the right to revise it? And how can art destabilise these narratives?

RE:VISION brings together artists who respond to the past, reconciling it with the present to avoid the pitfalls of history. Their work resists erasure and reclaims autonomy by challenging what endures and what expires; rethinking, reinventing and reconstructing to instigate the potential for the future to change.

Highlights include prints by Yinka Shonibare, photographs by Dora Maar and Jeff Wall and film stills by Pipilotti Rist. Opening night events include a performance and site-specific piece by Maria Gvardeitseva, and a film programme including works by ORLAN and Jeremy Deller.

Thank you Olga Smith – NUAcT Fellow – Fine Art, Newcastle University, for the invitation to attend the first Motherhood & Ecology workshops held at Edinburgh University.

Brilliant presentations from Olga, Kirsten Lloyd and D Ferrett.

This is the first of a series of workshops, devised with a view of fostering collaboration and joint research projects into themes and urgencies around capitalism, violence, and the feminine.

Looking forward to screening ‘The next dawn, the next spring’ on Saturday 7 June as part of the Promenade Weekender in Weston Super Mare! Thank you to Sam Francis of Super Collider for the invitation.

A great programme including Deep Listening with Simone Marconi, the Swamp Women of Weston Super Mare, experimental 16mm film programme and the RNLI Commissioned film, White Horses by Ivan Morrison.

Super Collider – ‘Uplifting people and places in Weston-super-Mare and North Somerset through culture and creativity’.

So pleased (and its such fantastic timing!) that I have been awarded an Arts Council England – Develop Your Creative Practice grant.

The funding will support me acquiring new skills in my practice to develop elements for the photo series ‘Last Summer’ and begin work on a new film project. I will be working with artist and curator Hannah Rose to explore future ambitions and further develop my studio at Porthmeor as a production and hosting space.

Huge thank yous to Hannah Rose for her access support to develop and write the application and to Anna Testar, Senior Curator, Hospital Rooms for her wonderful letter of support. 

📣 A huge thank you to @creativekernowassociates and @cove_park!

// We are delighted to announce that Melanie Stidolph has been selected for the first Creative Kernow Associates residency at Cove Park. Melanie will spend two weeks living and working on the 50-acre site overlooking Loch Long and the Firth of Clyde in March 2025, a period which marks the beginning of a year-long sabbatical to focus on her practice.

Melanie’s work is rooted in photography, exploring her relationship to grief and longing in relation to childlessness. Her photos pay attention to, and are in response to, slight changes of light, movement and the interaction of humans with the landscape. Recently her practice has expanded to incorporate working with others, and to bring the voice to the landscape as the trigger to change – literal and emotional. She is looking to start expanding this work on the voice during her time at Cove Park, developing scripts to bring an imaginative dimension to a practice that is built on a quiet observation of the real.//

This is a beautiful beginning to a year’s sabbatical to focus on my practice. 🙌 Can’t wait to be Lochside. 💙

Creative Kernow Associates

Cove Park

Thank you to Rosalyn Scott for the invitation to be part of her important online project In Other Words.

Featuring interviews with authors and poets who identify as either childless or childfree (as well as those who lie somewhere in between or prefer not to label themselves), we hear about their work, inspiration and lives. The discussions also cover the representation of non-parents in literature, and how childless or childfree writers and readers can be better represented by the wider publishing world.

Rosalyn runs the ‘NoMo’ book club – highlighting books that feature realistic narratives around this experience – find it on instagram here – NoMo Book Club. *NoMo is a term created by the childless advocate Jody Day in 2012 – it is used to describe anyone who identifies as a non-mother.

I’m in Group 4 of her interview series, with some wonderful and influential writers (Rosalyn has kindly stretched the definition to include my work and the photo book Endless Reproduction). Launches on 19 October online here – In Other Words.