Most Recent Project: Illustrated Sky: Contemporary Depictions of the Classical Constellations
Melanie has been commissioned to draw a series of illustrations of the constellations for the upcoming Starlight Software V.2. This project has been a journey into celestial cartography and mythology. The project unites the fields of cultural astronomy and art and is a collaborative endeavour with Bernadette Brady (The University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter, U.K.). It investigates how one can represent, through cartography, the mythological vibrancy contained within the literature of the classical western images of the constellations. Thus it considers these classical constellations both through celestial cartography and their mythological background, and seeks to emblematize this in contemporary aesthetics.
