ADRIAN MELLON

Adrian Mellon is Irish. His work moves between painting, drawing, sculpture, objects and built structures.

Water, light, wind, balance and movement run through the work. Not as themes added from outside, but as things lived with, watched, tested and made visible. A painting may begin with water, but it is never only water. It is surface, depth, reflection, disturbance, distance and light.

The sculptural works follow the same line into space. Masts turn in the wind. Suspended forms shift with air and light. Objects become instruments for movement, gravity and balance.

The work is made from looking, building, remembering and testing. It is not separate from life. It comes from water, tools, materials, labour, weather, travel, loss, invention and the need to make visible what would otherwise pass.

Born in Johannesburg in 1960, Adrian Mellon has worked for more than four decades with painting, watercolour, drawing, sculpture, ceramics and spatial structures.

Born in Johannesburg in 1960. Studied Fine Art at the College of Art, Johannesburg, BA. Grew up in South Africa and later lived and worked in Germany, Ireland, Portugal and Mali.

Exhibitions and public contexts

Work has been shown in museum, gallery and public contexts in South Africa, Mali, Ireland and Germany.

Selected public contexts include the National Gallery, Bamako, Mali, and the Museum of Modern Art, Heikendorf, Germany.

Further gallery exhibitions have taken place in Germany, Portugal, Ireland, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden and South Africa.

Selected commissions and projects

Outdoor sculptural works, kinetic mast structures, architectural and site-related objects, and private commissions.