Aimee Melaugh obtained a degree in Fine Art Painting from the Belfast School of Art and has since had her work selected for public collections including the Belfast School of Art, The Arts Council Northern Ireland’s permanent collection and the Northern Ireland Civil Service Art Collection. Melaugh was shortlisted for the Robert Walter’s UK New Artist of the Year Award in collaboration with Saatchi Gallery, London and had her work exhibited at Saatchi Gallery in 2021. She has exhibited at the Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast, and has had solo exhibitions at The Glassworks, Derry and Hang Tough Contemporary, Dublin. She completed an artist residency with Art Arcadia in 2021 and had a solo exhibition at St Augustine’s Old Schoolhouse in Derry as part of her residency. Melaugh has exhibited at Platform Arts Belfast, the ArtisAnn Gallery Belfast and Gallery 545. Recognitions include the Belfast Print Workshop Residency Award and the Royal Ulster Academy Award. Melaugh exhibited at the MAC Gallery in Belfast as part of ‘New Exits: 10 Years of Painting Shows,’ and exhibited at Guts Gallery, London in 2023 as part of a group exhibition ‘New Now.’
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Echoed Occurrence, Verbal Arts, Derry
2023 Handful of Notes, ArtisAnn Gallery, Belfast
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
2024 Visions of the Future: Young Women Artists of Northern Ireland, The
Irish Cultural Centre, London, curated by ArtisAnn Gallery
2023 NEW NOW Guts Gallery, London
2023 Contemporary Art of Northern Ireland #4, Gallery 545, Island Arts Centre, Lisburn
2023 Young Female Artists Exhibition, ArtisAnn Gallery, Belfast
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
ArtisAnn Gallery https://www.artisann.org/artist---aimee-melaugh.html
Fierce Nice Prints https://www.fiercenice.com/collections/aimee-melaugh
Reviews
Slavka Sverakova New Exits 10 Years of Painting Shows
https://slavkasverakova.blogspot.com/2023/02/new-exits10-years-of-painting-shows-9.html