Martin , Penny , curator

Melanie Manchot (1966-fl 2002) was born in Witten, Germany and was a student at New York University (1988 -1989) before going on to study at the Royal College of Art in London (1990-1992) where she received a Master of Fine Art in Photography. She undertook a series of exhibitions including: 'Look at you loving me' shown at the Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London (1998) as well as at the Poster Project, Bucknell University, USA and Galerie Fiebig, Berlin (1999); 'Intimate Distance' at the Fotogallery, Cardiff, (2000); and 'Just one kiss?' at the Rhodes + Mann Gallery, London and the Fotogalerie in der Feuerwache, Mannheim, Germany (2001) as well as at the Cornerhouse Manchester, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, USA and the Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (2002). Her work was been published as a number of monographs: 'Love is a stranger' (Prestel Verlag: Munich, 2001), 'Look at you loving me' (Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag: Basel, 1998) and 'Vile Bodies' (Prestel Verlag: Munich, 1998). She regularly worked on pieces of public and commercial art. She was nominated for the 1996 Citibank Photography Prize and won the Fuji Award in 1992. She also lectured at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, Central St Martins School of Art and Middlesex University.