About Mel

Mel Winning MA with Distinction

Camberwell Art School UAL

Melanie Winning MA is a UK-based multidisciplinary artist working across painting, mixed media, and installation. Her practice explores the intersections of memory, materiality, and place, examining how personal and collective histories are constructed, fragmented, and reimagined over time.

Winning completed her Master of Arts i Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts, where she developed a research-led approach grounded in material investigation and critical reflection. This continues to inform her work, supporting an ongoing engagement with contemporary cultural and social discourse.

Her process is rooted in layering, erasure, and reconfiguration, creating surfaces that operate as visual palimpsests. Through this approach, her work resists fixed narratives, instead offering spaces of ambiguity where meaning emerges gradually. Influenced by subtle observations of landscape and environment, she translates lived experience into abstract forms that evoke atmosphere rather than direct representation.

Winning has exhibited in London, including at Medici Gallery and Wellcome Collection. Her work has also been featured in Reclaim Magazine, contributing to wider conversations around contemporary art and emerging practices.

Her work has been described as “half dream, half reality,” often carrying a subtle dark undertone that runs through her visual language. She continues to develop her practice from her UK  Essex studio, exploring themes of displacement, belonging, and the shifting nature of perception. Her work invites a slower mode of looking—one that acknowledges uncertainty, material presence, and the quiet complexity of lived experience.

The Medici Gallery Cork Street  London Nov 2012

Oude Kerk Amsterdam  Dec 2012

The Balckall Gallery London June 2012

The Wellcome Collection London August 2012

 Solo Exhibition Merchant Taylors Trust London Jan 2013

The Ripley Gallery London  March 2013

Camberwell Art School London Oct 2013

The Misty Moon Gallery  London Oct 2013

Brighton Beach Hut Advent  Dec 2013

Martin Hebblewhites Gallery  Manningtree Aug 2015

First Site Gallery Colchester Oct 2015

Sudberry Brush Strokes 2016

Solo Exhibition Drama in Make-up Colchester Mercury Theatre 2016

Untitled Kings Road 2024 

Solo Commision Age Exchange 2019

Minories Colchester 2018/ 2025 

Boomer Gallery London  2025