Aimee Melaugh is a young award-winning painter who has encountered significant recognition for her artistic merit both in Ireland and the UK. She obtained a degree in Fine Art Painting from the University of Ulster, and shortly after her graduation her works were bought for the public collections of this university and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Since then, she has exhibited with Gallery 545 and high-profile galleries including the Golden Thread Gallery and the MAC in Belfast, and the prestigious Saatchi Gallery in London. Among other significant recognitions, she won a Royal Ulster Academy Award (Belfast ) and was one of ten finalists of the New Artist of the Year Award, Robert Walters...
Aimee Melaugh is a young award-winning painter who has encountered significant recognition for her artistic merit both in Ireland and the UK. She obtained a degree in Fine Art Painting from the University of Ulster, and shortly after her graduation her works were bought for the public collections of this university and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Since then, she has exhibited with Gallery 545 and high-profile galleries including the Golden Thread Gallery and the MAC in Belfast, and the prestigious Saatchi Gallery in London. Among other significant recognitions, she won a Royal Ulster Academy Award (Belfast ) and was one of ten finalists of the New Artist of the Year Award, Robert Walters Group UK & Saatchi Gallery (London).
Aimee Melaugh’s paintings explore ideas surrounding false personas through reflecting on the relationship between true identity and deceiving appearances. Her work can playfully hint at narcissistic tendencies and often examines the idea of exposing someone’s true authentic form after their mask has slipped and everything has been stripped away. Melaugh’s work focuses on concepts surrounding false realities with reference to film and literature as well. She often portrays this also responding to traumatic events taken place throughout history but hidden or altered by false historical narratives.