ABOUT
BEKA MELVILLE
Hailing from an Antipodean Graphic Design and Photographic background.
Beka ventures fluidy into new territories and digs up old loves. Based in Process.
Exposing the Unseen.
Landing home to Te Tairāwhiti from South America in 2018 brought forth deep reflection, the search for identity and an emergence of simmering creativity.
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Unpack those bags they said, its time to come home.
High contrast documentation
Finding solace in a passion for the therapeutic nature of the creative process Beka delved into the Expressive Arts Therapy realm completing a PGDip Art Therapy through Whitecliffe School of Art and Design in 2020 whilst also studing Māori and Indigenous Arts through Te Wananga o Aotearoa concentrating on Rauangi (Visual Arts).
Read about Beka’s visual pepeha process
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Falling into an Installation at Te Tairawhiti Arts Festival 2020 sparked interest in creating space.
‘All the Colours’ was based on the repetitive and meditative process that occurs whilst crafting and the reclaiming of discarded beauty. The act of installing and uninstalling was just as magnificent as bearing witness to the imersive effect on others, fully emersed in the entire process. See more
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Read about Beka’s visual pepeha process
Falling into an Installation at Te Tairawhiti Arts Festival 2020 sparked interest in creating space.
‘All the Colours’ was based on the repetitive and meditative process that occurs whilst crafting and the reclaiming of discarded beauty. The act of installing and uninstalling was just as magnificent as bearing witness to the imersive effect on others, fully emersed in the entire process. See more
Painting of a portrait of Peter and Polly 1917
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See the process
On the side she poses as a Communications Advisor for the Gisborne Distrcit Council in Tairāwhiti on the East Coast of Aotearoa.
She never stops pondering the potential and healing power of creativity in our rapidly changing world following global pandemics and repetitive distructive weather events.
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The sock project - so domestic
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Meet the Ladies here
See the process
On the side she poses as a Communications Advisor for the Gisborne Distrcit Council in Tairāwhiti on the East Coast of Aotearoa.
She never stops pondering the potential and healing power of creativity in our rapidly changing world following global pandemics and repetitive distructive weather events.
Recent works.
The sock project - so domestic
Meet the Ladies here
BEKA MELVILLE 2023
BEKA MELVILLE CREATIVE Tairāwhiti AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND.
BEKA MELVILLE CREATIVE Tairāwhiti AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND.