MELLISSA Monsoon
ARTIST - ILLUSTRATOR - sculptor - COLLABORATOR IN SCIENCE - BIO ART
ILLUSTRATION & PRINTMAKING
Originally trained as an illustrator, Monsoon uses this skill to explore techniques in illustration and printmaking to communicate aspects of the projects created. Monsoon is currently working with IIHUK charity to develop ways in which physical pain is represented and understood by healthcare professionals and society. Using the visual arts to communicate pain from invisible illnesses.
Microbial Me Illustrations & Etching
Beginning as an experiment in 2012 on Broad Vision and continued in collaboration with Professor Mark Clements, Dr. Richard Harvey & supported by Thermofisher Scientific. On permanent display at the Eden Project, Cornwall, UK.
CYANOTYPE
Monsoon created various prints throughout the covid-19 pandemic to raise money for IIHUK charity and adopted this print making process to show the beauty of nature as well as technology that uses lightwaves.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Illustrations done by Monsoon in 2010 to illustrate some of her favourite Edgar Allan Poe short stories, including The Black Cat & The Tell-Tale Heart.
Digital Sketchbook
Fisher revamped her 10 year old illustrations into digital prints to raise money for IIHUK charity.
ROMAN COINS
24 digital drawings accompanying article 'Acting Up: The Post of Triumvir Monetalis as an Early-Career Move in the Late Republic, 2021' written & commissioned by Dr Christopher Burden-Strevens.
Sketchbook
Pages from Monsoon's sketchbook, all hand drawn.
