Melanie Stidolph has been selected for the first Creative Kernow Associates residency. Melanie will spend two weeks at Cove Park in March 2025, a period which marks the beginning of a year-long sabbatical to focus on her practice.

Melanie’s work is rooted in photography, exploring her relationship to grief and longing in relation to childlessness. Her photos pay attention to, and are in response to, slight changes of light, movement and the interaction of humans with the landscape. Recently her practice has expanded to incorporate working with others, and to bring the voice to the landscape as the trigger to change – literal and emotional. She is looking to start expanding this work on the voice during her time at Cove Park, developing scripts to bring an imaginative dimension to a practice that is built on a quiet observation of the real.

Image: Melanie Stidolph. ‘Endless Reproduction’, 2023