kate mellersh (absent)'s photostream

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The devil is in the detail. I love small things, geometry, colour and light. My work has always tended towards abstraction, but seems to be firmly lodged there for the moment.
I love flickr with a passion, but I'm not always the wordiest of contacts - so apologies that I don't visit and comment as much as I should. My project for this year is to make tribute galleries to the many, many generous and inspiring souls who have made my flickr experience so rewarding. I am really loving discovering a roundness in people's view of the world via this curating route. Please check out my galleries to find some very special photostreams.

a new adventure - my first blurb books - check them out here ...
darkness and light by kate mellersh | Make Your Own Book

untold stories by kate mellersh | Make Your Own Book

my exhibitions
in Ministract www.flickr.com/groups/ministract/discuss/72157618538097681/

in Shade
www.flickr.com/groups/shade/discuss/72157622384897058/

If you love images, but have some doubts about the commenting culture on Flickr, why not try the group I set up, full of lovely members who keep it going far better than I ever could - visual echo - comment with images, not words?

It makes me sad to have to ask this, but I have found people posting my images all over the web without asking, and often without a credit or any avenue to ask them to stop. Please contact me first. It seems only fair, doesn't it?

Photos of kate mellersh (absent) (8)

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Contacts (175)

tlate hiin No real name given
annasoc No real name given
londonstreetart2 No real name given
james.kiong james kiong
wjosna Wjosna
barneymcgrew Ron Hewit
chirgy Simon Chirgwin
lebusque drawings No real name given
louistib Louis-Thibaud Chambon
James Withey No real name given
Matt Redmond Matthew Redmond...
Status Frustration J E Smith

Groups (50 50)

collegium_artisticum_book 69 photos, 35 members
Learn Composition by Example 353 photos, 355 members
!afterclass! Reflections 10,774 photos, 2,604 members
OXFORDshire and now the World / STREET PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP. 3,297 photos, 150 members
OXFORDshire up close!! 2011 6,887 photos, 227 members
Flair And Square 14,609 photos, 555 members
peak graphic / P1 / C1 7,594 photos, 236 members
Book Covers for Imaginary Novels 6,873 photos, 454 members
-- intangible delicacies -- 21,344 photos, 679 members
:: say no to big logos :: 12,031 photos, 156 members
urbanabstractions 4,607 photos, 242 members
Martin Parr WE ♥ U 23,793 photos, 2,918 members
Golden Square 10,461 photos, 544 members
Liquid Strokes 1,442 photos, 597 members
Eclectic Aesthetic 17,210 photos, 680 members
Cream of Fugu. (The Collection). 20,935 photos, 208 members
festival of brown 3,219 photos, 153 members
ECM Record Cover Photographs 8,118 photos, 727 members
Bare Minimum Extra ~ Post 1, Award 2 832 photos, 62 members
Bare Minimum (P1 = C2) ~ Competition: SMOKE ~ Time to VOTE 15,386 photos, 728 members
Shadows Only !! (just the shadow) 867 photos, 77 members
Bristol 87,465 photos, 3,359 members
maxiMinistract 244 photos, 47 members
Abstract Photo Excellence (INVITED ONLY)/ Post 1= Com 2 2,625 photos, 423 members
Minimal Black&White(NO text) 17,507 photos, 5,464 members
Abstract_ photo (post 1 / com 2) - Time to Vote - Liquid 30,316 photos, 1,816 members
Ministract 34,984 photos, 1,061 members
bitches brew 144,099 photos, 2,746 members
Quality Abstracts 8,664 photos, 7,059 members
flickrjob's hall of fame 859 photos, 123 members
visual echo (comment with images, not words) 14,724 photos, 1,519 members
OPTIME GALLERY 10,855 photos, 143 members
all but one 12,661 photos, 1,591 members
1-2-3 Abstract Architecture - P/1 Comment 2 - Weekly Gallery 21,120 photos, 3,726 members
haphazart! Abstractions 81,145 photos, 3,156 members
Black And White And Black And White 10,855 photos, 637 members
Fully Filled 11,203 photos, 376 members
Abstract Reality 73,702 photos, 4,143 members
Rhizome Summum (post 1, rhizome ad lib) 11,860 photos, 440 members
Rhizome Candidum (post 1, rhizaward 4) 11,321 photos, 1,066 members
Rhizome Premium (post 1, rhizaward 2) 16,433 photos, 604 members
ObliquaMente / ObliqueMind 15,472 photos, 1,427 members
Urban Geometry (comment on 1 *or* fave 2 *or* ask to remove 1) 58,057 photos, 4,719 members
Graphic Photos (new rules, comment any one,...) 6,440 photos, 469 members
COM-minimal (post 1, COM-ment 2) 23,258 photos, 2,214 members
Oxford 34,350 photos, 2,618 members
Best black and whites 25,282 photos, 1,127 members
Six Word Story 24,652 photos, 3,220 members
pavement 59,835 photos, 11,858 members
DisSymmetry 33,549 photos, 1,796 members

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Galleries (64)

through the veil - revisiting casually, krystina 18 photos
Kalanch-Öé's picture stories 9 photos
the dark pleasures of james.kiong 18 photos
wjosna 18 photos
withwill's light gestures 5 photos

Testimonials (7)

karenpeacock says:

"The combination of amazing color and graphic lines makes Kate's photographs wonderfully interesting. And then there are her titles. I haven't seen anyone on flickr with such inventive titles. They give her work an extra dimension where the little details in her photographs really come to life."

15th June, 2009
tina negus says:

"Kate's photographs are quite simply stunning."

19th November, 2008
i didn't mean to go to Stoke says:

"I first came across Kate's work earlier last year with her detailed studies of tins and vegetables at Sainsbury's, these images were strange and unfamiliar and quite intriguing, then i realized she has the mastery of giving back to us the awareness of things which have become the habitual objects of our everyday awareness.

Kate's special ability of turning found objects. abstracts and close ups into the glory and freshness of a dream.
Every one of her photos is a visual transcendental masterpiece, easily one of the best streams on flickr, still kicking myself for not seeing her exhibition in Witney my home town."

26th April, 2008
Wesley Danes says:

"Kate's photostream is one of the few photostreams on flickr.com you come back to over and over again. It's like a walk through a well designed nature park and each time you enter the park you can take another road, seeing new things but also seeing the same things differently. More than the sum of it's parts"

4th February, 2008
duckiemonster says:

"Kate's photostream is like getting a bunch of flowers given to you on the rainiest day of the year. It's colourful, exciting and you can come back to it time and time again, and you'll see something new in the close-crops and juxtapositions that you didn't notice before.

Keep an eye on the clock though; it's so compelling, you'll browse a lot longer than you intended to."

28th January, 2008
The Other Pete says:

"Coming across Kate's photos is a bit like Dorothy falling into the Land of Oz and being knocked for a Technicolor loop. Kate's a colorist in the finest sense of the word, producing images of such vibrance and energy, there's no way to sift through her work without coming away feeling a little more hopeful about things – or craving a truck-load of Life Savers (the fruity ones).

I can't wait to see more of her work popping up in my Contacts list."

24th January, 2008
slithy-toves says:

"kate has quite the ability for transforming mundane minutae into magical masterpieces! she's got a great eye for the abstract, and is a geometric genius. gotta love a fellow line whore :) can't wait to see more!"

26th November, 2007