SIGILS FOR COMMUNICATION

Intrigued by the weird and the eerie, TYLER MELLINS (b. 1995, Mansfield, UK) creates ghostly works that use absence and presence as materials alongside moving image, installation, sculpture, text, and image-making. 

 

Informed by his experiences growing up queer in an ex-mining town and a decade working with paranormal investigators, Mellins has a unique vantage from which to explore themes including memory and loss. He is fascinated by the unseen, often thinking about how something might change when it is looked at.

 

Mellins frequently plays with time and perception; creating works that either unfold slowly, appear frozen or suspended, or which are only glimpsed briefly. He is interested in the peripheral and the ephemeral, and wants his work to conjure a sense of something being close enough it’s almost palpable, but ultimately out of reach.

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