EDUCATION

FOUNDATION DIPLOMA MAIDSTONE COLLEGE OF ART 1989

BA HONS FINE ART PAINTING WIMBLEDON SCHOOL OF ART 1993

MA FINE ART PAINTING CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ART 1994

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022      From This Land Solo Exhibition Alde Valley Festival Suffolk

2013      Tourist, The Cat St Gallery, Hong Kong

2011      No Man's Land, The Fine Art Society, London

2008 Daytripper, The Fine Art Society, London.

2007 Snowglobe, The Fine Art Society, London.

2005 Long Distance, The Fine Art Society, London.

2004 Voyager, Fosterart, London.

2000 Melanie Comber @ Hiscox Art Café, London.

2000 Melanie Comber Paintings  from Iceland, The Blue Gallery, London.

1998 Heavy Breathing, The Blue Gallery, London.

1996 Melanie Comber New Paintings, The Blue Gallery, London.

1995  Melanie Comber Paintings, The Blue Gallery, London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023       Townhouse Spitalfields Open, London

               A Generous Space 3 Huddersfield Art Gallery

2022       Resist,  Terrace Gallery London Curated by Rachel Wilson.

2021       Galloper Sands Contemporary Collections Suffolk

2021       Truth in The Face of Reality Robert Berry Gallery New York (online)

2020       The London Art Fair Osborne Samuel Gallery

               Wells Art Contemporary Wells Cathedral Somerset

               The Discerning Eye London                                                                     

2019       Space and Time Knightwebb Gallery London

               Summer Exhibition Campden Gallery

               The London Art Fair,

2018       Winter Exhibition Lemond Gallery Edinburgh

              Another World Charity Auction Deutschebank  Frieze London

               The RWA 166 Annual Exhibition, Bristol

               The Pittenweem Arts Festival 2018

               The London Art Fair

2017       The Discerning Eye Mall Galleries London

               Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery London

               The RWA Academy Open 165 Bristol

               The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

               London Art Fair 2017 Osborne Samuel Gallery

               Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary                                                      

2016       Art Miami with Osborne Samuel Gallery London

               Small is Beautiful Flowers Gallery London

               Art 16 London  Unix Gallery New York

               Group Exhibition Unix Gallery Madison Avenue New York

               The Alde Valley Spring Festival Suffolk                        

2015       In Visual Dialogue Unix Gallery New York

               Art Silicon Valley Unix Gallery New York

               Small is Beautiful Flowers Gallery London             

               The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

               The Alde Valley Spring Festival, Suffolk

2014       Art Taipei with The Cat St Gallery Hong Kong

               The Alde Valley Spring Festival, Suffolk

2013       Wonderworks The Cat Street Gallery Hong Kong

               The Alde Valley Spring Festival, Suffolk

               Postcard from my Studio, Acme Project Space London

               Signal 8 The Cat Street Gallery Hong Kong

               8 Studios From Here, Deptford X London

               8 Minutes From Here, The Royal Festival Hall, London

2012      The Materiality of Paint, The Fine Art Society London

Small is Beautiful XXV Flowers London

The British Cut The Cat St Gallery Hong Kong

2011 The Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy,London

Small is Beautiful XXIV Flowers London

Kitchen Projects Trans Siberian Art Centre touring show.

2010      The Marmite  Art Prize, Manchester, Coventry, London

Small is Beautiful XXVIII Flowers Central London

BFAMI Gala charity Auction Christies London

2009 Volta Basel, with the Fine Art Society.

              1984, DACS 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The KowalskyGallery, London.

              British Painting of the Twentieth Century,  David Koetser  Gallery Zurich

2008      Scope London with the Fine Art Society.

Scope Miami USA, with the Fine Art Society.

2007 Select, Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Monochromed 2, The Fine Art Society, London.

2006 Monochromed, The Fine Art Society, London.

2004 Small is Beautiful XXII, Flowers Central, London.

2003 3hree, Bcontemporary, London.

Atlantic, Fosterart, London.

2002 Balmy Daze, Houldsworth Fine Art, London.

2001 Line Up, Gallery Fine, London.

British Abstract Painting 2001, Flowers East, London.

Boriginal, Bcontemporary, London.

1999 Bankside Browser, Tate Gallery, London.

White Out, Gallery Fine, London.

1997 Focus, Claus Goedicke, Melanie Comber, Selfridges London .

The Nat West Art Prize, Lothbury,  London.

Splash, British Art In America, Raw Gallery, New York.

1995 Elemental, The Blue Gallery, London.

Tusk Force Auction, The Serpentine Gallery, London.

1994 SBC European Art Award, Swiss Bank House, London.

The Contemporary Art Society Art Market, The Royal Festival Hall, London

No Turkeys, Raw Gallery, London.

1993 The New Art Award, Cubitt Street Gallery, London.

SELECTED PUBLICATION

Heavy Breathing, The Blue Gallery, Published by The Pale Green Press (1998).

The Nat West Art Prize 1997, Published by Weald Press.

66 degrees,33’N, 18 degrees,01W, The Blue Gallery Published by The Pale Green Press.

Artworks, British and German Contemporary Art 1960 -2000 (ISBN 1 85894 118 0) Published by Merrell.

British Abstract Painting 2001 Matthew Collings (ISBN 1 902 945 271) Published by Momentum.

Long Distance, The Fine Art Society (ISBN 0 905062191)

Snowglobe, The Fine Art Society (ISBN 978 0905062 396)

Daytripper, The Fine Art Society (ISBN 978 0905062 556)

Monochromed, The Fine Art Society (ISBN 0 905 062 302)

COLLECTIONS

Deutschebank, Coutts, RBS, Hiscox, RGB Underwriting, Jupiter, Pantheon Ventures, The David Roberts Foundation, Sainsburys and numerous private collections in the UK and abroad. 

AWARDS

1997                                                                   Prizewinner,    The Nat West Art Prize, London.

1994                                                                   Finalist,           SBC European Art Award, London.

1993                                                                   Finalist,            The New Art  Award, London