Selected Talks and Workshops
2025 NanoPhotonics Creative Development Workshop, University of Cambridge
NAnoPHotonics creative Development workshop
Tailored workshop to create a unified creative vision and practical framework to personalise and define the NanoPhotonics office spaces.
2024 Conference Artist, Quantum Materials and Structured Light, Sicily
how Not to Draw Conclusions
workshop
Exploring Perception Through Drawing
Drawing on Science Workshop
Experimentation with ink and drawing methods to create inventive and associative visualisations relating to individual fields of study.
Talk: THinking WIth Objects
Melissa shares examples of participate artworks as she explores perception, the mind and cognition and considers how artists and scientists explore the world and construct meaning from our experiences.
2022 Interdisciplinary Creativity Workshops, CDT in Fluid Dynamics, University of Leeds
THinking Objects Workshop
Creating sculptural Thinking Objects relating to individual research areas.
Talk: The Allure of the Aesthetic, Jesus College Intellectual Forum, Cambridge
Talk and drawing workshop
Sharing examples from her own practice, Melissa explores the meanings and roles we ascribe beauty and aesthetics in art, literature and science. Followed by a drawing workshop.
Further Talks and Workshops
2021 Talk: El Encanto del Estetica, Metizajes Conference, San Sebastian, Spain
2020 Workshop: How Not to Draw Conclusions, NanoPhotonics Group, University of Cambridge
2019-20 Artist in Residence: University College, Oxford
2017-19 Visiting Lecturer, Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich
2018 Workshops: Drawing on Science, NanoDoctoral Training Center, University of Cambridge
Talk: Using Materials to Think, Intellectual Forum, Jesus College, Cambridge
Talk: Material and Metaphor, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University
2017 Talk:Form in Art, Issac Newton Institute for Mathematical Science, University of Cambridge
Workhsops: Drawing on Science, NanoDoctoral Training Centre, University of Cambridge
Talk: Materia y Metafora, Mestisajes Conference, San Sebastian, Spain
2016 Talk: Drawing and Making, Swindon College, Wiltshire