ABOUT

Melissa Sharpe’s practice is rooted in her lived experience as a female artist, exploring domesticity, maintenance labour, and the fragility of the home. Working across sculpture and image-based processes, she investigates how the everyday can hold complex emotional, social, and political meaning.

Her work often begins with scavenged materials objects sourced from abandoned buildings, charity shops, and domestic environments. These fragments carry embedded histories, particularly those tied to feminised labour and overlooked narratives. Through acts of disassembly, layering, and reconstruction, Sharpe reveals what is usually hidden, elevating the value of the ordinary.

Building on earlier work that explored feminist maintenance labour within the home, her practice has expanded to consider home as both a physical structure and a psychological space, one that can offer comfort but also instability. Her recent work turns towards exploring our most basic need for shelter, considering its precarity in the context of displacement, memory, and lived experience.

Sharpe’s process is intuitive and materially driven, allowing the inherent qualities of found objects to guide outcomes. Her work resists fixed resolution, instead creating spaces for reflection, connection, and shared understanding where personal experience intersects with wider social conditions.

Melissa Veitch Sharpe
Interdisciplinary Artist

Location: London & West Sussex, United Kingdom
Email: contactmelissasharpe@gmail.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mysouledart/