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Born in Melbourne, Australia Melinda McCarthy has been an exhibiting artist for the last ten years, working in a variety of media from painting to photography and installation. |
| About the Artist | |
Mainly now focussed on painting, my work is quite illustrative. I am mainly inspired by the mythology and folklore of different cultures. |
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mystery of the Moche
2006 |
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| The Moche are thought to be a fearsome warrior race pre-dating the Inca in Peru. Recently a Moche tomb has been uncovered during an excavation. Inside was a great warrior and leader mummified with all the trimmings of one highly revered, jewels, weapons, even sacrificial offerings. However when they unwrapped the body, this great man they expected to find was a woman! |
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Rontobabuk (healing dolls)
2006 |
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| In Hungarian folk medicine, dolls were used to symbolically “carry the sickness awayâ€. The dolls would be circled around the affected area and then thrown away in the moonlight at crossroads. |
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Eris
2006 |
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| Many people know the story, Helen of Troy and the Trojan war. Some also know that this story came about because of Helen being offered as a prize to Paris to stop three goddesses squabbling.
But what many do not know (including myself until recently) is why they were arguing to begin with.Apparently it was all thanks to Eris, the goddess of chaos who rolled amongst them a golden apple with kallisti or for the most beautiful written across it. Thus stirring up trouble as of course ALL three believed it theirs and so the story began. |
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Busojaras
2006 |
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| In February, these masks are worn, in a festivity to scare away winter and welcome spring as well as to celebrate the victory in the battle of Mohács |
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the green one
2000 |
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| Some say she is a witch, some, mother earth incarnate others, a goddess. With the lifeforce of fire in her hands, she continues the cycle of life from birth to bones and back again! |
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Beithe
2008 |
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| Beith represents the Birch tree, and new beginnings. A tree linked to the great bard Taliesin, it's totem animal is the white stag. Quite recently a mummy was found on the Pazyryk plains bordering Russia and Mongolia. A woman who was buried as one of great importance and archaeologists believe that she was a storyteller or shaman. A bard. Curiously on her shoulder was a tattoo of the stag a sign perhaps of this relationship reaching far beyond the celts of the British Isles. This painting is in honor ancient stories and the ones, such as this mysterious woman who kept them alive in our imaginations. |
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Gaining of Wisdom
2009 |
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| The art of Alchemy was not exclusively for turning base metals into Gold, it was also used as a means of self transformation; finding the "philosopher's stone" and through this an understanding of how the universe worked.
Part of this process was Separation. Often shown by mediaeval artists as an operation (usually to the brain) this was the process of identifying special elements or essences and separating them out. The operation shown is for "wisdom teeth" an interesting play on words as the arabic for these teeth is "Ders-al-a'qel" which means tooth of the mind and so perhaps a manifestation of this first initial essence!
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| PAST EXHIBITIONS 2009 Biennale of Chianciano Terme- Siena Italy Art for L'Aquila-fundraising auction @ Italian Cultural Institute, Belgrave Sq, London Catch in the Eye Save in the Heart group show@ 3 Bedfordbury, Covent Garden, London Rotary Tarra Festival Art Show @ Yarram Regent Theatre, Victoria 2008 Gothic Belgravia @ Eaton Terrace Gallery, Belgravia, London Into the Woods @ Queen's Wood Cafe, Muswell Hill, London Catch in the Eye Save in the Heart group show @ Eaton Terrace Gallery, Belgravia, London Catch in the Eye Save in the Heart group show @ Art-space Gallery Mayfair, London Art in Mind group exhibition at The Brick Lane Gallery, London 2007 Hidden exhibition @ Momma Cherri's for Brighton Fringe Festival, Brighton U.K. Jewellery Quarter Art and Craft Fair St Paul's Square Birmingham U.K. 2006 Rhythm of Life Ancient and Abstract group exhibition @ Vanguard gallery, Melbourne Regölés solo exhibition of oil paintings, Fitzroy, Melbourne 2005 Travels in Turkey exhibition @ Mayfield’s Bar Fitzroy, Melbourne Group Exhibition The Fitzroy Gallery Fitzroy, Melbourne The Collectors Exhibition group exhibition with the Contemporary Art Society of Victoria at Steps Gallery Carlton, Melbourne 2004 Entertaining Countess Dracula an installation on the infamous Countess Báthory, Melbourne “SHE” is a bitch women’s art prize, Walker st Gallery Dandenong, Melbourne The Collectors Exhibition Steps Gallery Carlton, Melbourne Linden Postcard Show Linden Art Gallery St Kilda, Melbourne 2003 Group Exhibition @ Mayfield’s Bar Fitzroy, Melbourne “With The Dark” art installation in performance space of play “With the Dark” held at C.E.R.E.S. Brunswick, Melbourne Art Blitz - 24 Hour Art Prize held at Kingston Art Center, Melbourne Linden Postcard Show, Melbourne 2002 The Collectors Exhibition Steps Gallery Carlton, Melbourne Postcard Show, Linden Gallery St. Kilda, Melbourne 2001 “I said Pet Show”, Contemporary Art Society of Victoria, Melbourne 1999 Agitate, working with RedPlanet and the Guerrilla Girls running workshops to produce screen-printed political posters and exhibiting them at Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne Youthpix, photography exhibition, Glen Eira Gallery, Melbourne Women Gathering, group exhibition with painting and photography, Melbourne 1998 “Voice”, young women’s project with photography, performance and short film, Melbourne “The Bridge (construction in process VI)” international art project doing installation work painting and screen-printing, Melbourne 1997 Women in Print Queen Victoria Women’s Centre Melbourne, group exhibition of screen printing with RedPlanet, Melbourne ARTS ACTIVITIES 2000-08 various comissioned work in illustration, painting, design and photography, clients including: The Sanctuary Post Production, London Devonshire Otseopaths, London Author Steve Mayhew, Melbourne Lothlorien world music, Melbourne Timothy Gordon - Choreographer, New Zealand 2003-04 toured with VARDOS playing traditional music from Hungary and Romania 1996-2000 working with Red Planet (a community based art and screen-print studio) running workshops for various community groups including workshops and talks on water-based screen-printing at Sale Art Gallery (as part of Powerful posters touring exhibition). EDUCATION 1994 –1995 Associate diploma of screen-printing art & design.Melbourne Institute of Textiles |
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| Future shows | |
| Next Showing at Gagliardi Gallery in London- May 2010 | |
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