portfolio | matilde melodia






Body In Motion - Room Edition,
Graduate Show Proposal
May-June 2026
(in progress)My practice begins with the body as something not fixed, but continuously reconstructed. I approach the exhibition space in the same way, treating the room as a body in construction: open, unfinished, and changing. The installation contains objects that may be added, removed, or rearranged throughout the exhibition, functioning as entry points rather than fixed artworks. The space remains open to development through conversation, interaction, and collaboration.

Throughout the exhibition, the space hosts informal, small-scale events such as conversation-based encounters, collective making, and exchange. These are not strictly scheduled, but emerge through word of mouth, supporting a responsive and evolving atmosphere. My role is to facilitate conditions for interaction rather than determine outcomes.




Between Body, Mind, and Earth Two Handmade Journal Workshops,  Fruitmarket, in response to Jaune Quick-to-See exhibition, 2026 Facilitated two bookbinding workshops exploring the relationship between body, material, and environment. Using simple and accessible materials, participants created handmade journals while reflecting on slow making, sustainability, and personal connection to the natural world. The journal became a space for reflection, drawing, and creative responses to the themes of the exhibition.





Between Body and Mind, Two Handmade Journal Workshops at the Sanki Gallery in response to The Carved Body
2026

Facilitated bookbinding workshops responding to the exhibition The Carved Body. Participants created handmade sketchbooks using paper, thread, and simple binding techniques. The sessions framed journaling as a slow, reflective practice—inviting participants to reconnect mind and body through making and to use the journal as a space for drawing, writing, and personal reflection.





Make a Mark in collaboration with Liv Davis
at the Crossing Points Exhibition.
Risograph prints, acrylic’s, potatoes, paper roll. 
2026
As facilitator, I developed a participatory workshop inviting visitors to leave a potato print on a long collective surface. While the potato will rot, the marks remain—forming a growing pattern of shared traces and exploring ideas of community, continuity, and the tension between the temporary and the lasting






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How to Make a Journal / Time to Jorunal
Zines
2026

Two zines developed alongside the workshop. ‘How to Make a Journal’ offers simple instructions for making a journal from found paper—covering paper hunting, cutting, sewing, and gluing—providing participants with a tool to use during and beyond the workshop. ‘Time to Jorunal‘ explores journaling as a space for slowness, reflection, and imagination, offering prompts such as drawing inner landscapes or hybrid selves, encouraging the journal as a place to think, experiment, and simply be.




Creative Activities Support | Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity
October 2024 – PresentFacilitate creative and sensory activities for children and families in a hospital setting. I design simple, accessible drawing and colouring activities that encourage play, expression, and participation. Through this role, developed over two years of working in care environments, I have strengthened skills in empathy, communication, and adapting creative practices for diverse needs.








Curatorial and Communications Support 
The Space Between Exhibition
ECA, University of Edinburgh
2025Contributed to the installation and opening of the MA Fine Art 4th/5th Year exhibition. Supported promotion through social media and helped develop materials for the exhibition launch. Worked collaboratively with peers to realise the exhibition and engage audiences.





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Spelling Out
2025My practice positions the body as both subject and medium, treating it as a visual language. Through shifting positions, it expresses what is often unspoken or pre-verbal, revealing how the body registers impact, tension, and conflict.




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Performace in Collaboration 
with artsit Freya Glass and curator Rosie Hodgson Smith
Held down by the wind
2025

"Working with Freya became a shared process of play, intuition, and experimentation. The body functioned as a responsive medium – through folding, stretching, bending, and repositioning, mirroring Freya’s own process of repetitive reshaping. What emerged was a dialogue between our practices: a continual back-and-forth in which body and material co-constructed and reacted to one another."





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Where Do I Begin Again?
2025, oil pastels and printed paper collage,  29.7 x 42 cm each


Crossing Point Exhibition,
Edunburgh College of Art, 2026.

Collage becomes a process of removal and reassembly, where the body shifts context and meaning. The work explores transformation and colour as a form of renewal, asking what new structures can emerge through rupture and the ongoing process of figuring things out.




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Body Font
2026Body Font is a digital typeface created from photographs of my body. Through abstract poses that loosely resemble letters, the body becomes a tool for writing. The resulting language resists readability, reflecting how experience and trauma can be held in the body when words fail, turning typing into a physical gesture rather than a readable outcome.





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Invisible Structure
Performance
2025

In Invisible Structure, I wear an intentionally awkward costume that exaggerates the effort of simple actions. The body moves within this restrictive form, revealing how invisible structures—psychological, social, or emotional—shape physical behaviour. Presented during The Space Between exhibition, the performance turns the body into a moving sculptural object, emphasising tension between movement, constraint, and adaptation.







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Stages of Becoming,
Binded prints, 
14.5 x 25.5 cm,
2025










Matilde Melodia
Stages of Becoming,
 Binded prints, 
14.5 x 25.5 cm,
2025







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Puzzled
Print on Found Object
2026








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Stretch Break with Body to Body Mat,
acrylic on found fabric,
2026






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Can’t Feel my Body,
paper collage,
2026







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Narrative Reclamation
Animation
2025

I revisited a found object titled Man on Fire, an old-fashioned masculine book, by projecting and painting movements of my own body onto its pages. I filmed the shadow of my body moving in my bedroom, a private space where movement became a way of processing and reconnecting with myself, then transferred these gestures using brush and ink across the book. The silhouette moves through and interrupts the original narrative, reclaiming it through presence and bodily movement.





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Body’s Narrative
Collaborative Performace
2025

The Narrative Reclamation later developed into a collaborative performance exploring identity, embodiment, and collective experience. I wanted to create an immersive environment where bodies could merge and respond to one another. Two dancers performed behind a screen so that their shadows blended with the projected animation, blurring distinctions between physical and projected bodies. Sound artist Selenay Tektunal composed the soundscape, adding another sensory layer shaped through rhythm and bodily response.



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The Line and Body
animation
2025

A moving image of the body is partially removed and reconstructed with a simple drawn line. The work explores fragmentation and repair, where the body is reimagined through instinctive mark-making. What returns is tentative and incomplete, suggesting a form still in the process of becoming.


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