Thelma Hulbert Gallery

29/05/2026

Mellony Taper: All This Useless Beauty
📅Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 to 5 until 27 June
📍 Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Dowell St, Honiton EX14 1LX

About the artist 👉 is a British interdisciplinary artist. Her work has been exhibited widely across the UK and is regularly selected for prize exhibitions. She is an Academician of the South West Academy of Arts and is a member of the Royal West of England Academy Artist Network.

Her work is included in ProCreate Project’s living archive of work by artist-mothers and formed part of the 2023 series of ProCreate Public Activations across London. In 2023, Taper was invited to create work for the exhibition ‘Found Cities, Lost Objects: Women in the City’ curated by Turner Prize-winner and cultural activist, Lubaina Himid CBE, during its tenure at the Royal West of England Academy.

Mellony was the winner of the 2025 THG Open Main Prize for her work ‘Trousseau’.

📸 © Jim Wileman

21/05/2026

☀️ Summer Sessions for 11 to 17-year-olds
🧑‍🎨 Try out different kinds of printmaking with expert printmakers!
Join our new printing workshops this July and August led by Double Elephant Print Workshop
📆 Wed 22 July, 2-4: letterpress printing
📆Wed 5 August, 11-2: block printing
📆Wed 12 August, 2-4: lithography printing
📆Wed 19 August, 2-4: Drypoint printing
📆Wed 26 August, 2-4: Gelli Plate printing
🎟️ £10 each / £40 if booking all five!
🔗 Book via link in comment

21/05/2026

🎨Free art session for 16 to 25-year-olds
📆 Tuesday 26 May, 5 – 7pm
🌿Create a beautiful cyanotype print from nature.
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Free art session for 16 to 25-year-olds
📆 Tuesday 26 May, 5 – 7pm
🌺 Create beautiful cyanotype prints from nature.
📍 Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Dowell St, Honiton EX14 1LX
📧 No booking required. Contact us [email protected] for more info.
👉 Join our free Youth Art Network sessions on the last Tuesday of every month.

19/05/2026

The opening event on Saturday for All This Useless Beauty: Mellony Taper and upstairs: The Last Post by Gillian Taylor.
The artists welcomed visitors sharing insights into their different works in the gallery.
👉 All This Useless Beauty
👉 The Last Post - above the Georgian stairwell
📆 Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 to 5 until 27 June.
📍 Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Dowell St, Honiton EX14 1LX
Free admission, donations welcome.
📸© Jim Wileman

16/05/2026

O P E N I N G T O D A Y

Saturday 16 May, 2-4pm come along and meet the artist.
Mellony Taper: All this Useless Beauty


Exhibition continues until 27 June

15/05/2026

🎉Opening tomorrow!
📧The Last Post. An installation created by Gillian Taylor in the Georgian stairwell of THG.
📅Saturday 16 May, 2-4pm.
📍Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Dowell St, Honiton EX14 1LX
The artwork has been created using the final letters sent by the 400-year-old Danish postal service to create a piece of art.
"PostNord ending their delivery of letters and removing the post boxes feels like such a significant moment that I wanted to mark it by creating some art." Gillian Taylor

The exhibition continues until 27 June.

15/05/2026

🎉Opening tomorrow!
Mellony Taper: All This Useless Beauty
📅Sat 16 May, 2-4pm. Come and meet the artist.
“I collect, curate and intervene in the status of discarded things, exploring heritability of experience and life chances through a reimagination and curation of found objects. The works become reluctantly received heirlooms, domestic relics: items with a vague or lost provenance.

They are imposters: incomplete records and imperfect navigations of fragmented, revisionist histories; hints of lives. Drawn to lost and broken things, I hoard the unremarked and unrecorded.” 2026

📸 © Mellony Taper

14/05/2026

🔨Moving this fragile piece was always going to be a complex process but thanks to it all went smoothly.
🌼 new artwork commemorates the end of the Danish postal service. The hanging installation uses daisies made from copies of letters and their envelopes. The daisy is the national flower of Denmark as well as a symbol of new beginnings and hope – offering an optimistic note, despite the sad end of the handwritten letter.
📆Opening Saturday 16 May, 2-4pm. Come along to see the finished piece and meet the artist.

13/05/2026

Mellony Taper: All This Useless Beauty
📆Opening Saturday 16 May, 2-4pm
👉Solo exhibition of work by artist , winner of the THG Open 2025.
👉The works explore female stories, inviting us to consider how inherited experience and repeating generational patterns have shaped women’s lives.
🔗find out more see link in bio

12/05/2026

Mellony Taper: All This Useless Beauty
16 May - 27 June

📆Join us for the opening this Saturday 16 May, 2-4pm. Meet and discover more about this intriguing new exhibition.

11/05/2026

🎊 New exhibition opening
All This Useless Beauty: Mellony Taper
📆 Saturday 16 May. Meet the artist 2-4pm and discover more about her works in the exhibition.
Exhibition of new work: sculpture, installation and works on paper will inhabit the gallery spaces across two floors and in our secret garden.
📍 Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Dowell St, Honiton EX14 1LX