Newest contributor to Arts Hub UK Melissa Mostyn is set to join us with the monthly column, Deaf Zone. Originally a fashion journalist, Melissa is now turning a lifelong love of the arts into a career as an arts marketing practitioner and visual artist. She has recently been awarded funding from Arts Council England to run a year’s pilot scheme of professional development with Salon, a group of deaf visual artists in the South-East.
Deaf since the age of 16 months, Melissa’s passion is to support other deaf visual artists. She has already made her mark in several areas of the arts since 2003, when she debuted in Hidden Visions at Chats Arts Palace in east London, and followed up with Composition, a deaf arts showcase at Light House, Wolverhampton, which she also curated. She gives gallery talks in BSL regularly at major art galleries and museums across London.
