QG Focus: Melinda Harper Colour Keeps Me Awake
Exhibition dates: Sep 13 – 29, 2025
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Alongside paintings, prints and small sculptural objects, Melinda Harper’s art practice has long featured embroideries that continue her vibrant use of colour and rhythmic abstract compositions of shape and light.
These intimate works, often created during the quiet of the night, describe zigzags, stripes, circles, and triangles that create fields of threaded surfaces, enlivening the spaces within and around each piece.
Stitch by stitch, colour by colour, Harper has constructed dynamic, textured, yet disciplined works that speak to the rich traditions of art and design, drawing our attention to the processes and rhythms of ‘making’.
Weaving her paint and collage elements through a select group of embroideries, Harper extends the experimental nature of her work in the QG Focus, Colour Keeps Me Awake.
