Melissa Nesbitt’s practice explores memory as fragile, shifting, and continually reconstructed across generations. Focusing on maternal lineage she draws on family archives, photographs, and written records to examine how remembrance is transmitted, disrupted, and reassembled over time. Melissa’s work treats memory as fragmentary rather than fixed, shaped by distance and loss. While rooted in the personal, she aims for works to speak more widely to shared experiences of memory, family history, and grief.

Alongside archival material, Melissa engages with the natural world, particularly roots and birds, as metaphors for the simultaneous groundedness and transience of memory. Through weaving with natural fibres and reworking images of birds in flight, she explores the tension between stillness and movement, and the above and below. Across these processes, her work reflects on preservation, absence, and the human desire to hold onto what is fleeting.

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