Tertiary Education

2025 UNSW PHd degree commences. Recipient of The Research Training Program Scholarship.

2024 UNSW Master of Fine Arts (Research) Degree. Recipient of The Research Training Program Scholarship.

2018 UNSW Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (Drawing & Painting), Honours, Results: Honours Class 1

2017 UNSW Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (Drawing & Painting), Results: Distinction Average

1997 Parsons School of Design, New York, USA. General Studio A A S Program.

1996 Parsons School of Design, New York, USA Fine Arts Certificate,

Exhibitions

2024 Exploration Emerging Artist Exhibition, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne

2024 Cobalt and Rust, Solo exhibition, Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Woollahra

2023- 2024 In Profile, Solo exhibition, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman

2023 The Darling Project, Solo exhibition, AD Space, Paddington

2022 ‘In the Flesh_02’ Group Exhibition, The Rocks, Sydney

2022 ‘In the Flesh’ Group Exhibition, Comber Street Studios, Paddington

2022 ‘Solastalgia’ Group exhibition, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Art Space, Gymea

2021 ‘Solastalgia’ Group exhibition, May Space Gallery, Waterloo

2019 ‘Flux’ Group Exhibition, White Rhino Art Space, Artarmon

2019 ‘Spread your wings’ Group exhibition, White Rhino Art Space, Artarmon

2019 ‘#LIKE’ Group Exhibition, White Rhino Art Space, Artarmon

2019 ‘Broken Landscape’, Solo show, New York City, USA

2018 ‘Conversations’, M Contemporary Gallery, Woollahra

2018 ‘Tonic’, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney

2018 ‘Enter the Picture’ Gaffa Gallery, Sydney

2017 Annual Graduate exhibition, UNSW Art & Design, Paddington

2017 Honours, UNSW Art & Design, Paddington

2017 ‘Multi-Tasking’, 107 Projects Gallery, Redfern

2016 ‘Fowler’s Gap 200 West’ UNSW Art & Design, Paddington

Awards

2024 Saatchi Gallery Art for Change Prize Australian & New Zealand recipient winner

2018, 2022 & 2024 Finalist, Pro Hart Outback Art Prize

2022 & 2023 Finalist Waverley Art Prize

2023 Finalist, BAM Art Prize

2021 & 2022 Finalist, The Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design prize

2019, 2020 & 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024 Finalist, Fisher Ghost Art Prize

2021 Finalist, Green Way Art Prize

2021 Finalist, The Incinerator Art Award, Art for Social Change

2020 & 2023, Finalist, Meroogal Woman’s Art prize

2018 Finalist, Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize

2017 & 2023 Finalist, Kudos Emerging Artist

Grants

2023 UNSW HDR essential costs of Research Grant

2021 UNSW Development and Research Training Grant

Media and Publications

Feature on Jo Mellor’s textile & painting workshops with School of the Air/Fowlers Gap, Digital Fabrics Blog 2023

Feature on Jo Mellor’s textile installation and textile banner protest in Menindee, Digital Fabrics Blog 2021

Feature on Artist profile on Jo Mellor, Mosman Daily 2021

Feature on Jo Mellor’s solo art exhibition in Menindee, Barrier Truth Newspaper, Broken Hill 2021

Feature on Jo Mellor’s textile installation on Menindee Lake, Barrier Truth Newspaper, Broken Hill 2021

Feature on Jo Mellor and the Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize, North Shore Living Magazine 2019 Feature on NYC solo exhibition Broken Landscape, Mosman Daily 2019

Feature in Belle Magazine 2018 , Sept/Oct 2018

Exhibition Review of Internal Affairs Show at Janet Clayton Gallery 2015

Location photograph using ‘Tree on Hill’ painting by Jo Mellor for an interior design shoot, Freshwater, NSW, SJS Interiors.

Artwork feature on Jo Mellor and The Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize, North Shore Living Magazine

2019 Article feature on Jo Mellor’s NYC solo art exhibition “Broken Landscape”, Mosman Daily

2018 Artwork feature in Sept/Oct 2018 Issue Belle Magazine, Australia

2015 Exhibition Review of “Internal Affairs” Show at the Janet Clayton Gallery

Internships & Residencies

2018 & 2017 Artist Residency - “The Green House”, UNSW Fowler’s Gap Research station, Fowlers Gap

Collection

Artworks held in private collections in Australia, USA & Europe