Margaret Mellis

Modernist Constructs

To celebrate her recent retrospective, The Redfern Gallery are delighted to announce the continuation of Margaret Mellis: Modernist Constructs, opening Wednesday 9 February 2022. Previously on display at Towner Eastbourne, this exhibition includes an array of drawings, paintings and driftwood constructions by Margaret Mellis, demonstrating her intuitive technique in her largest, most established exhibition yet.

'In the late 1970s, Margaret Mellis began to keep pieces of driftwood she found during her walks along the Suffolk coast. She selected them with an artist’s eye, for their qualities of shape or colour, and collected them as she collected other things in her house: old keys, pieces of board and wooden trays, bits of glass, the skins of oranges and grapefruits crisp from drying on the Aga. Everything was kept with a future purpose in mind, could take on new life. Keys for collages; fruit peel for lighting fires.'

Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Harriet Baker.