Dr Melinda Reid is an Australian art theory writer, researcher, and teacher. She received her PhD in Art, Media, and Design from the University of New South Wales in 2018. Melinda’s essays have been published locally and overseas. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Framework, Hag Mag, Mülk, Parallel, Running Dog, Runway, and Un Magazine. Her writing has also been commissioned for exhibition texts published by Boxcopy, Firstdraft, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, and UTS Gallery. Melinda teaches at the University of New South Wales, University of Technology, Sydney, and the National School of Art. Melinda lives and works in the unceded lands of the Gadigal and Wangal peoples of the Eora Nation. 

Artworks/Exhibitions

The ASMR Touch, 2022-3, looped single channel video and de-synchronised audio track, video 31:36; audio: 21:22.
Full video: https://youtu.be/kabAxWFNrLk 
Full audio: https://on.soundcloud.com/FHa2t

The ASMR Touch was exhibited in Writing Backwards at SCA Gallery, Sydney, 9 August - 9 September, 2023. Curated by Emma O’Neil and Alex Gawronski featuring artists and writers from Runway, Hag Mag, Stolon Press, and Pebble Press.

Publications

Reid, Melinda, Anastasia Murney, and Aneshka Mora, “What if this classroom was a disco?” Unlikely Journal of Creative Arts, issue 9: Resistance (2024) https://unlikely.net.au/issue-09/what-if-the-classroom-was-a-disco

Reid, Melinda, “The Smoke Monster from Lost has her way with me,” Hag Mag, issue 666: Satan’s Hags (2024): Unpaginated. Text only PDF available here. Abridged version read live at ‘10 Years of Otherworlds Zine Fair’ (June, 2024) available here.

Reid, Melinda, “The ASMR Touch.” Runway, issue 46: Ghost (2023) https://runway.org.au/melinda-reid/

Reid, Melinda, “Guilty Pleasures Revisited.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 80, issue 2 (Spring 2022) https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpac002

Reid, Melinda. “The reluctant bin chickens of neoliberalised education.” Un Magazine 13, no.2 (November 2019): 8-15. http://unprojects.org.au/magazine/issues/issue-13-2/melinda-reid/.

Reid, Melinda. ‘Review: The Essayist curated by Jasmin Stephens.’ Running Dog. 10 September 2019. http://rundog.art/the-essayist-jasmin-stephens/.

Reid, Melinda. “Lingering (or, Brief interruptions to an ongoing cycle).” Framework 24 (2018): 14-17.
Reid, Melinda. “Lessons from Margaret Montoya’s Table.” School Book 1 (2017): 22-24.

Reid, Melinda. “Highway meltdown.” In Here&Now17: New Photography. Perth: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at UWA, 2017. 79-81.
Hughes, Natalya, and Melinda Reid, eds. Fictions. Sydney: Alaska and University of Technology, Sydney, 2016.
Hughes, Natalya, and Melinda Reid, eds. UTS PSM Honours. Sydney: Alaska and University of Technology, Sydney, 2016.
Reid, Melinda. “Doodling and tarot cards: An interview with Laura Wingrove.” Parallel 8 (October 2016): N. pag.

Reid, M. ‘Soft ions.‘ Soft Ions - Finn Marchant. Woolloomooloo: Firstdraft, 2016. Exhib. cat. N. pag.

Reid, M. ‘Ferns.’ Mülk. Issue 1: Birth. May, 2016. N. pag.
Reid, M. ‘A vocabulary for long distance.‘ Parallel. Issue 5, Winter 2015.

Reid, M. ‘Patterns for Waiting.‘ Patternation. Hazelhurst: Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, 2015. Online exhibition catalogue. N. pag.
Reid, M. ‘Going and looking.‘ PSM Honours. Ultimo: University of Technology, Sydney, 2015. Exhib. cat.
Reid, M. ‘A short introduction to feminist performance art.‘ Parallel. Issue 3, Summer 2015. 

Reid, M. ‘Artist Profile: Técha Noble.’ Künsterlerhaus Bethanien. Upcoming.

Reid, M. ‘Girls girls girls.‘ Girls girls girls. Woolloomooloo: Firstdraft, 2015. Exhib. cat. N. pag.

Reid, M. ‘Oblivion, rainforests, and happiness.‘ Grant Stevens: Dark Mess. Brisbane: Boxcopy, 2015. Exhib. cat. N. pag.
Reid, M. ‘More than top tens and a lack of pubes.’ Parallel. Issue 2, Spring 2015. 74-79.
Reid, M. ‘Come Close,’ Parallel. Issue 2, Spring 2015. 168.

Reid, M. ‘Immaterial labour.’ Nicholas Shearer, Honours. Ultimo: University of Technology, Sydney, 2014. Exhib. cat. 10-15.