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




SkillsWorkshop design and delivery

Participatory art practices

Accessibility and inclusive engagement

Curatorial collaboration

Adaptability in care and educational settings