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"Melissa Wright Katongola, a French-Congolese creative who models and is studying Law and Politics at Stirling University. I met her when the Amazon Prime Anansi Boys production was being shot in Edinburgh. She’s socially engaged, politically aware, wanting to make a difference. It's people like her who are helping to shape the future of our world now and that makes me hugely hopeful and excited for what’s to come. [AM]"
"Feeling Inspired: Young Fathers' likes and inspirations", The Skinny, Art and Culture Magazine, 30 Jan 2023, https://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/opinion/young-fathers-inspirations
Melissa Wright Katongola, also known as Milekka, is a french mordern art painter born in Paris and currently based in Montreal, Canada. She is currently realizing a master in International Law and Politics at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).
Alongside with her artist career, she is also a model represented by Model Team Scotland and Dulcedo Talent Agency.
Activist, she used to be a member of Global Justice Now in Stirling, she now volunteers for the Aiesec organization at the University of Quebec in Montreal.
In an interview with Zubair Junjunya for an episode of the ZNotes Live on The Paradox of Art and Beauty Standards, he himself commented: "When you read Melissa’s bio, you might believe she is several people in the same body because of all the different things she’s passionate about".
Accordingly, despite embracing multiple passions, Melissa Wright K. has always kept a soft spot for visual arts in general. As she started drawing in her childhood, and then painting in her late teens, she kept this early passion until she finally found her own visual signature: a delicate mixture between her cubist predecessors and a small dose of Fernand Leger's work.
A personnal signature that she is now using to create unique garments.
However, it would be wrong to reduce to such a list the influences that have shaped her signature form.
From the dynamic creative Scottish community to her French and Congolese origins, many souls and stories have allowed Melissa W. K. to elaborate her visual legacy. .
Her admiration for the Greek philososphy, sculptures and aesthetic is moreover really apparent in her work, which displays overly muscular figures similar to the godlike image of the Greek divinities.
Then, between colours and monochrome, cubism and the ondulation of flesh, hair and muscles; Melissa's style illustrates a dialectic of complementary opposites, vibrant and unique, that does captivate the eyes.
It is a hymn to life which sings without a sound.
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