TYLER MELLINS (b. 1995, Mansfield, UK) makes work about the things that slip away and the empty spaces they leave behind. Through moving image and immersive installations, he constructs environments where the past and future haunt one another and the present feels hollowed-out somehow. His visual language frequently invokes the weird and the eerie, not to frighten you, but to send a signal: something is missing... something is close... something is just out of reach...
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Inside these works, elusive visions arrive in fragments of dreams and memories. Glimpsed figures may or may not be there, lurking at the edges. Here and now twist into then and there. Mellins invites you into spaces where absence is conjured and takes shape; where a sense of longing, unease, and nostalgia guide you deeper into his world. Drawing on his own experiences as an artist, witch, queer person and paranormal investigator, his surreal works feel layered and lived-in, attuned to a strange frequency between the real and the imagined.
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Entangled in the web of a post-truth age, Mellins creates provocative and theatrical artworks that bring our understandings of reality into question. In his work, fantasy and fiction become revelatory, perhaps whispering something to you that was hitherto unknown. Dare you believe in something else?
He is currently based at Yorkshire Artspace in Sheffield, UK.
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2025 Forbidden Territories, The Box, Plymouth.
2024 Wyrding, Chaos Magic, Nottingham.
2024 Portals, Gasleak Mountain, Nottingham.
2024 Betwixt, Crypt Gallery, London.​
2023 Dark Echoes, Site Gallery, Sheffield.​
2019 Post, Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield.​
2018 (Mis)information, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield.
EDUCATION
MFA Fine Art (Distinction)
Sheffield Institute of Arts.
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BA Film & Media Production (First Class)
Sheffield Institute of Arts.
RESIDENCIES
2024 Hotel Generation, Arebyte Gallery, London.
2022 Freelands Programme, Freelands Foundation, London.
2020 The School of Broadcasting, Arts Catalyst, Sheffield.
AWARDS
2021 DYCP Round 11, Arts Council England.
COMMISSIONS
2025 The Witching Hour for The Box, Plymouth.
2024 Warning Sign for Middlesbrough Art Week.​
TALKS
2022 Ghost in the Machine, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield.
PUBLICATIONS
2025 Spirit Worlds, TASCHEN.
2024 Betwixt, Freelands Foundation.​
TEXTS
2025 Reimagining the film archive, Zahra Khanum.
2024 A Host of Hauntings, Jamie Sutcliffe.
2023 Encounters, Salena Barry.​
PRESS
2023 On Desperately Seeking Susan, Examiner.
2023 Sigils and dark echoes, Now Then.
2023 On Dark Echoes, Our Favourite Places.
2023 Meet the Locals, Our Favourite Places.
2016 On video art, BBC Radio Sheffield.