Melinda Harper - Artist Info

About Melinda Harper

  • Biography

    Melinda Harper is one of Australia’s leading abstract artists. For over 30 years, she has been painting artwork filled with geometric forms and often with an explosion of colour through hundreds of rectangles crammed onto the canvas or wavy forms filled with psychedelic stripes,

    She paints in oils and has been exhibiting for over 30 years and has had over 25 solo shows. In 2015 in the Heide Museum of Modern Art, a major survey of her work was held: ‘Colour Sensation: The Works of Melinda Harper’.

    Her work is contained in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of NSW and other public and private collections.

    She lives near the town of Castlemaine,...

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