
Melanie Jordan
grasp the stillness

About
A haptic practice with thread-based crafts at its core. My current artwork pays attention to the inner tension between the need to nurture and a feeling of entrapment associated with motherhood; that is maternal ambivalence. My personal perspective is of a mother of an adult with learning difficulties, where the mother- child relationship becomes trapped in a dependent phase. Repetitive conversations form a considerable part of the interactions between myself and my adult son. Within these intense exchanges are brief pauses in the flow of words that I relish. It is as if within these lulls there exist traces of myself. I have been considering my own thoughts to fill these ‘slivers of silence’ and stitching them into ribbons of words.
MA Final Installation
Publication

PRENZLAUER STUDIO- WINDOW PROJECT
BERLIN 2021
Placenta beautifully installed in the window of the Prenzlauer Studio in Berlin.

CROSSING THE LIMINAL
ArtCan Artists Exhibition
Curated by Lucy Pickford
Hampstead Garden Gallery July 2021
look out for my little oak gall ink pieces.



BREWERY TAP RESIDENCY 2021
Artist Lorrain Mailer, Ali Lees and I spent a week installing and making work in The Brewery Tap Folkestone in April.

LUNAR 2021-
An exhibition exploring our relationship with the moon.

THE TURNER OPEN EXHIBITION 2021



REFRESH ART AWARD 2021
Proud to be shortlisted for The Refresh Art Award. A real life show!


CUT THE UMBILICAL
This piece is the first in a series of sculpted implements for severing the umbilical link between mother and dependent adult.