Christchurch, New Zealand
Biography:
Frances j Melhop has been based in Milan Italy for the last 9 years, she is well known in Europe and the South Pacific as a creator of extraordinary and unique imagery in the fashion story-telling area. Now back in Christchurch New Zealand.
Frances crafts her work .... from primary concept ,art directing, shooting , completing all post production and illustration into her works.
In studios,castles, jungles, obscure islands, hanging out of aeroplanes and even underwater Frances conjures up an enchanted world of her own to create and tell the story she is working on....
Tall tales and surreal stories are the air she breathes.....
making possible the impossible and by anthropomorphizing all "heroes" from a little red city scooter snuggling a Paris Metro railing, to a Gucci bikini thrown carelessly in a lagoon...
Currently Frances is exhibiting in 2 galleries
one being a group show entitled "miniatures" at the Gossamer Collective and Ghost Gallery Seattle USA
and also a group show "times of transformation" Albuquerque New Mexico USA at Arthaus66.....
Website: www.francesjmelhop.com
