Queenie Mellor is an artist working with material, memory, and class resistance. Her practice is rooted in working-class history and personal ancestry—particularly the stories that get erased or rewritten by systems of power. She builds work from the ground up: using what’s available, what’s inherited, and what still hums in the bones.

Her projects often explore the weight of family, land, protest, and grief—not as concepts, but as lived textures. She isn’t interested in fitting into the art world’s poshness or polish. Her work doesn’t perform rage or history, it carries it. And she’s building a practice that refuses to bend.

Queenie is currently developing THE GATHERING, a major sculptural project tracing her ancestor George Mellor—a Luddite—and the landscapes that shaped him. She works in sculpture, installation, and whatever materials speak the loudest. She lives and works in Cornwall.