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Aimee Melaugh

Aimee Melaugh is a young award-winning painter who has encountered significant recognition for her artistic merit both in Ireland and the UK. She obtained a degree in Fine Art Painting from the University of Ulster, and shortly after her graduation her works were bought for the public collections of this university and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Since then, she has exhibited with Gallery 545 and high-profile galleries including the Golden Thread Gallery and the MAC in Belfast, and the prestigious Saatchi Gallery in London. Among other significant recognitions, she won a Royal Ulster Academy Award (Belfast ) and was one of ten finalists of the New Artist of the Year Award, Robert Walters Group UK & Saatchi Gallery (London).
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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BASED in

From and based in Derry / Londonderry, Northern Ireland

EDUCATION

2018 BA Degree in Fine Art Painting (First Class Honours), University of Ulster, Belfast

AWARDS

2021 Finalist (1 of 10) of the New Artist of the Year Award, Robert Walters Group UK & Saatchi Gallery
2018 Belfast Print Workshop Award & Royal Ulster Academy Award
2018 ArtisAnn Gallery Emerging Artist Award

COLLECTIONS

Public collections: Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Ulster University, Belfast, Civil Service of Northern Ireland
Private collections

SOLO EXHIBITION

2022 'Handful of Notes', Artisann Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland
2022 'Featureless Fine', Hang Tough Contemporary, Dublin, Ireland
2021 ‘White Walls’, Exhibition and Residency as part of Art Arcadia at St Augustine’s Old Schoolhouse, Derry, N. Ireland
2021 ‘Ult-erior’, Abridged Magazine, Curated by Gregory McCartney (online)
2019 ‘Fragmented,’ An tSeaneaglais - The Glassworks, Derry, N. Ireland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 'New Exits: 10 Years of Painting Shows', MAC, Belfast, N. Ireland
2022 'Past, Present, Future,' King House, Boyle Arts Festival, Boyle, Ireland
2021 ‘Robert Walters Group UK New Artist of the Year Award’, Saatchi Gallery, London
2021, 2020 'Gallery 545 Group Exhibition', Gallery 545 at Blick Studios, Belfast, N. Ireland
2021 ‘Portrait of Northern Ireland: Neither an Elegy nor a Manifesto, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
2020, 2019 ‘Gallery 545: Contemporary Art of Northern Ireland #1, #2', Gallery 545 Online (2020), Gallery 545 at the Sea Holly Gallery, Belfast (2019), N. Ireland
2019 'Artists in Focus', Gallery 545 at the Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, N. Ireland
2019 ‘Graduate Award Winners Group Exhibition,’ Belfast Print Workshop, PS2 Belfast, N. Ireland
2019 ‘Alternate Perspective,’ Platform Arts, Belfast, N. Ireland
2018 ‘Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition,’ Ulster Museum, Belfast, N. Ireland
2018 ‘Emerging Artists 2018,’ ArtisAnn Gallery Belfast, N. Ireland

RESIDENCY

2021 Art Arcadia, Derry, N. Ireland

Selected Recognitions

Award-winning artist, including of a Royal Ulster Academy Award
Finalist (1 of 10) of the New Artist of the Year Award, Robert Walters Group UK & Saatchi Gallery
Works in public collections, including of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and the University of Ulster, Belfast

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