Aimee Melaugh is a painter based in Derry. She graduated with a First Class BA Honours Degree in Fine Art Painting in 2018 from the Belfast School of Art. Melaugh was recently shortlisted for the Robert Walter’s UK New Artist of the Year Award in collaboration with Saatchi Gallery in London and had her work exhibited at Saatchi Gallery in 2021. Melaugh has had a solo exhibition at The Glassworks, Derry, supported by the Arts Council Northern Ireland. She completed an artist residency with Art Arcadia in 2021 and had a solo exhibition at St Augustine’s Old Schoolhouse in Derry. Melaugh has also exhibited at Platform Arts Belfast, PS2 and the ArtisAnn Gallery Belfast. Recognitions include the Belfast Print Workshop Residency Award and the Royal Ulster Academy Award. Her work is included in public collections such as the Belfast School of Art, The Arts Council Northern Ireland’s permanent collection and the Northern Ireland Civil Service Art collection, as well as various private collections. Melaugh also had a solo exhibition at Hang Tough Contemporary in Dublin in September 2022 and has work currently exhibited at the MAC Gallery in Belfast as part of a group exhibition ‘New Exits: 10 Years of Painting Shows,’ curated by Dougal McKenzie & Hugh Mulholland until March 2023.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Handful of Notes, ArtisAnn Gallery, Belfast 1st March - 1st April
2022 Featureless Fine, Hang Tough Contemporary, Dublin
2021 White Walls, Art Arcadia, St Augustine's Old Schoolhouse, Derry Ult-erior, Online Abridged, Curated by Gregory McCartney
2019 Fragmented, The Glassworks, Derry
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 New Exits: 10 Years of Painting Shows, MAC Belfast
2022 Past, Present, Future, King House, Boyle Arts Festival
2021 UK New Artists (UKNA), Robert Walters Group, Saatchi Gallery, London
Portrait of Northern Ireland: neither an elegy nor a manifesto, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
Crossings, King House, Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon
Gallery 545 Group Exhibition, Island Arts Centre, Online
2020 Gallery 545 Contemporary Art of Northern Ireland #2 Group Exhibition
It’s Pronounced AI m – ee, ArtisAnn Gallery Belfast
2019 Wild Tulips/1, Wild Tulips, Derry
Gallery 545, Sea Holly Gallery, Belfast
Gallery 545, Island Arts Centre, Lisburn
Graduate Award Exhibition, Belfast Print Workshop, PS² Belfast
Alternate Perspective, Platform Arts Belfast
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, ArtisAnn Gallery Belfast
2018 Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum Belfast
ArtisAnn Emerging Artist Group Exhibition, ArtisAnn Gallery Belfast
AWARDS
2021 Top 10 in Robert Walter's Group UK New Artist of the Year Award, Saatchi Gallery, London
2018 Belfast Print Workshop Award
ArtisAnn Emerging Artist Award
Royal Ulster Academy Award
COLLECTIONS
Northern Ireland Civil Service Art Collection (Public)
Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s Permanent Collection (Public)
Ulster University Belfast Collection (Public)
Private collections
EDUCATION
2014-2018 Fine Art Painting BA Hons Ulster University Belfast
Links
McKenna Gallery Aimee Melaugh - Works | McKenna Gallery
ArtisAnn Gallery https://www.artisann.org/artist---aimee-melaugh.html
Fierce Nice Prints https://www.fiercenice.com/collections/aimee-melaugh
Gallery 545 Aimee Melaugh – Gallery 545 - CONTEMPORARY ART OF NORTHERN IRELAND
Reviews
Slavka Sverakova Trilateral, PS² Belfast
https://slavkasverakova.blogspot.com/2019/08/belfast-print-workshop-residents.html