I am a autodidactic visual artist based between Amsterdam and Antwerp. My work moves between fragility and play, using repurposed and found materials such as lost children's drawings, glass, wall paint, and waste cultures of kombucha (scoby). Through these materials I explore how memories, relationships, and vulnerable feelings can be preserved and reimagined. My process is intuitive and physical, trough experimenting with different textures i create works that shift between control and chaos, seriousness and childlike wonder. Rooted in a neurodiverse perspective, my practice reflects on family, queerness, and connection as shifting spaces rather than fixed structures. By embracing imperfections and coincidences, the works becomes an act of remembrance.

COMING UP:

29.08 - 30.08 A night called quest - antwerp queer arts festival @ De studio

le petit prinxe

BOOX.SPACE, Haarlem

"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it." – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

In Le Petit Prinxe, Delta van Melle shows a visual ode to childhood's naive, unfiltered simpleness. Using reverse glass painting, a technique where marks are made blindly on the back of the surface, each piece emerges as a surprise: a conversation between artist and inner child, where memories materialize in delicate lines and simple bright forms.

These works are acts of preservation: fragile feelings (wonder, blunt honesty, untamed curiosity) encased behind glass. Like Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince protecting his rose, van Melle guards vanishing states of being, not through nostalgia, but through urgent, tactile poetry.

Behind each work lies a proposition: that what is essential is not only invisible to the eye, but easily forgotten. They ask: How do we hold what slips away? When did we stop seeing stars as miracles?

T-SPACE

schoolstraat 27, 2060 Antwerpen

+32456420513

deltavmelle@gmail.com