Melanie King

Melanie King is an artist and curator, originally from Manchester, UK. Melanie is now based in Kent, UK. She is co-Director of super/collider, Lumen Studios, and founder of the London Alternative Photography Collective. Melanie is Lecturer In Photography at Canterbury Christ Church University and a practice-based Ph.D. Candidate at the Royal College of Art. Melanie’s practice-based research has taken her on a journey far and wide, including collaborative projects with the UCLO Observatory in London, Kielder Observatory on the border of England and Scotland, the Laboratory for Dark Matter Research in Boulby, UK, and the EU Commission in Ispra, Italy. She has participated in residencies in Iceland, Italy, Spain, Ireland, the Lake District (UK), and Cornwall (UK) to spend time underneath the night sky. For her research, she has also analysed analogue astronomical specimens within the UCL Space History Archive and the Royal Astronomical Society in London. Further afield, Melanie has visited the Mount Wilson Observatory, Carnegie Archives, and Hale Solar Laboratory in California, USA as well as the European Space Agency in Leiden, the Netherlands.