ABOUT

Melissa Sharpe is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in the everyday and shaped by her lived experience as a female artist, prop and set stylist, worker, wife, and mother. Engaging with feminist concerns, she explores domesticity, mental health, and maintenance labour, seeking to elevate what is hidden and often undervalued. Through acts of attention, repetition, and material enquiry, her work challenges and reconfigures embedded societal norms.

Sharpe’s practice involves scavenging materials from abandoned buildings, charity shops, and antique markets, unearthing machine detritus and domestic remnants. These objects carry embedded histories of the feminine, which she disassembles, annotates, and reconfigures. Through processes of layering and un-layering, construction and deconstruction, she reveals what is often obscured, exposing a tension between the homely and the industrial, the cared-for and the discarded.

Working across image-based and sculptural forms, Sharpe develops a tactile dialogue with materials to document and re-inscribe meaning. Her work seeks to memorialise the overlooked and reduce forms to their essential structures, provoking new readings of the familiar while fostering connection, shared understanding, and a quietly therapeutic resonance.

Melissa Veitch Sharpe
Interdisciplinary Artist

Location: Chichester, UK
Email: contactmelissasharpe@gmail.com