25/02/2017
Endings are Beginnings, 2017
Selected for the Mid West Art Prize 2017 at Geraldton Regional Art Prize - Geraldton, Western Australia. 17 - 31 July 2017
25/02/2017
Horizons of the past, 2017
Exhibited in the Royal Perth Art Prize 2017 at Wilkinson Gallery - Claremont, Western Australia. 19 -30 September 2017.
14/02/2016
A thought in progress series, 2016
Meaning embeds itself one mark at a time. Poised wrist I wait. Every moment an intersection. Left, right, straight or do I stall? As the path becomes more obvious the direction becomes clear. Some possibilities diminish while others are exposed. I am interested in how we
14/02/2016
Constructing memory series (solo exhibition), 2016
Memories are mothers, lovers, bullies on a rampage. Protectors, seducers, tormentors. Drowning, smothering, saving us again and again. Images flash - pain, pleasure, ambivalence. Held in a present long since past, reminding. Solo exhibition by Mel Dare. 10th - 23rd October 2016 Peekaboo Gallery - Northbridge, Western Australia.
14/02/2015
Sometimes a moment is just a moment, 2015
Caught between the past and future; programmed by culture and genetics we orientate and organise our lives using underlying stories which are threaded together moment by moment. Catagorising and compartmentalising as we go. Most experiences forgotten before they reach consciousness. Others shoved to the side
13/02/2015
100 Days to Create a Narrative series (solo exhibition), 2015
Spectrum Project Space, Edith Cowan University - Mount Lawley, Western Australia. 15 - 28 May 2015. In 100 days Mel Dare finds many questions and some answers. Through her work the artist has delved into many different but interrelating subjects including subjectivity, psychology, identity, time and perspective.
25/02/2014
Beginnings are Endings, 2014
Exhibited in Mel Dare's solo exhibition A Momentary Considerations at Art Collective WA 20 August 2015 – 12 September 2015.
24/02/2013
Clarity of a moment, 2013
"I am interested in how we are defined and confined by the physiology, the sociology, the geography, and the time period in which we are born in and live. These contexts which define us and give us meaning. Meaning which is built, sustained and discarded
21/02/2013
Luminous, 2013
Through science we are continually learning different ways we construct reality. How our feelings, thoughts and understanding of our world is a series of processes, as much determined by our background and lifestyle, as by our genes. Some processes keep us breathing, others are less
25/02/2012