Matilde Melodia

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Matilde Melodia is an artist-researcher and facilitator working across photography, collage, performance, and participatory practice. Her work explores the body as a site of experience, memory, and communication, particularly in relation to trauma, movement, and non-verbal forms of expression. Using her own body as both subject and material, she investigates how gesture, fragmentation, and reconstruction can reveal what is difficult to articulate through language alone. Facilitation and collaboration have become central to her practice. Through workshops, dialogue, and collective making, she creates spaces for reflection, exchange, and accessibility, exploring how meaning is formed between bodies, materials, and people.

Education

Fine Art and History of Art (MA)
University of Edinburgh
September 2021 - July 2026

A five-year degree that combines studio-based fine art practice with the academic study of art history.

Dissertation: Rethinking Relationality within the Climate Crisis: Contemporary Socially Engaged Art, Community Practice, and Institutional Context.

Awards

John Kinross Scholarship, the Royal Scottish Academy, 2026.

Employment

Creative Learning Artist
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
November 2025 to January 2026

Gallery Assistant, Performer & Workshop Organiser
SANKI Gallery, Edinburgh
October 2025 to February 2026

Graduate Show Event Assistant
Engagement and Communications
Team, Edinburgh College of Art
May 2026

Creative Activities Support
Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity
October 2024 to present

Creative Programmes Volunteer
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
May 2025 to present

Curator
The Space Between Exhibition
ECA, University of Edinburgh
January 2025

Creative Director
Revel Event ECA, University of Edinburgh
May 2024

Volunteer Assistant | Edinburgh Art Fair
October 2023 to November 2023

Skills

Workshop design and delivery

Participatory art practices

Accessibility and inclusive engagement

Curatorial collaboration

Adaptability in care and educational settings