MA Fine Art, Edinburgh College of Art, 20262026 Emerging Art Prize Nominee. RSA John Kinross Award 2026 recipient. 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.My practice began as a way of understanding how experience is carried through the body – through gesture, movement, and reaction, even when words feel insufficient. Working across photography, collage, and performance, I use fragmentation and reconstruction to explore memory, trauma, and the traces of lived experience. Through dialogue, workshops, and collective making, I create spaces where uncertainty, difference, and exchange can coexist. I hope my work encourages viewers to slow down, look closely, and reflect on the ways our bodies hold, communicate, and transform experience.
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We don’t currently have a gallery space where you can view the work in person, though depending on where you’re based, a studio visit can sometimes be arranged. What we’ve found, overwhelmingly, over twenty-two years: when someone falls for a piece on screen, the real thing is more, not less. Colour, surface, scale, presence. It works that way around. It’s why, across two decades, our returns have been minuscule.
But rest assured: if it isn’t right when it arrives, it can be returned within fourteen days.
