Rhona Jack and Calum Wallis : Working under Lockdown 2020
Rhona Jack and Calum Wallis arrived for their MERZ residency in March 2020. Overtaken by the limits imposed by Covid the planned exhibition of kinetic... Read More
Calum Wallis & Rhona Jack : An Isolated Process
Rhona Jack and Calum Wallis were artists in residence at MERZ from March through to May 2020. Their tactile hand and wind powered devices could... Read More
Monika Alff : World Collage Day Diary
Monika Alff has been artist in residence at MERZ and curated the 8th May’s World Collage Day in the gallery. Monika’s video diary explores the... Read More
Michele Marcoux : Abandoned Cottage Diary
In April 2021 Michele Marcoux undertook a month-long artist’s residency at MERZ Gallery in Sanquhar for the research and development of new work and the... Read More
Olivia Irvine : MERZ Diary # 4 Pamphy Linns
MERZ artist in residence Olivia Irvine was in Sanquhar during March. In her local explorations to paint and draw she visited the celebrated ‘faerie dell’... Read More
CARDBOARD CONVERSATIONS
CARDBOARD CONVERSATIONS was a lockdown project at MERZ involving local and international artists, primary school, college and university students. The project was coordinated ‘remotely’ by... Read More
Olivia Irvine : MERZ Diary #3
Olivia Irvine writes: ‘I put together the charcoal drawings from around the bothy, the river Euchan and some older drawings to make two large collages.... Read More
Olivia Irvine : MERZ Diary #2
Olivia Irvine is the MERZ Artist in Residence for March 2021: ‘After my first week of drawing down by the River Euchan and around the... Read More
Olivia Irvine : MERZ residency diary #1
“After a brief visit to MERZ around Hallowe’en I thought this is definitely the place for me – because of the amazing location within a... Read More
KAZUKO KIZAWA : EXHIBITION
Kazuko‘s exhibition at MERZ went ahead between the 26th and 28th December. Unfortunately the inclusion of Sanquhar in Level 4 from the 26th prevented Kazuko from... Read More
Susannah Horton : Two Day Residency at MERZ
Landscape architecture student Susannah Horton stayed at MERZ for a couple of days in December. Susannah explored Charles Jencks’ Multiverse. “Multiverse is fascinating. Even in... Read More
Kazuko Kizawa : SPECTRUM-Sound-Light
Kazuko Kizawa has been artist in residence at MERZ since mid November. Kazuko is planning to install some Video Installation Works at MERZ at then... Read More
Jeff Zimmer : Glass Artist
From our former site, www.craftscotland.tv, artist-maker Jeff Zimmer uses traditional glass painting techniques on layers of glass to create enigmatic three-dimensional scenes. Jeff was showing... Read More
Choi Keeryong : Glass Artist
From our former site site, www.craftscotland.tv, artist-maker Choi Keeryong creates pieces of blown glass decorated using an ‘inlaid colouring’ technique combined with locally manufactured porcelain... Read More
Kurt Schwitters & Hannah Höch
Led by Helen Fox of Fox & Hounds Theatre Company local artists, designers and makers are working towards producing a short play imagining an exchange... Read More
Further Pottery News from MERZ
Across four locations artists are seeking to find ways to make the clay from the Sanquhar clay-fields more malleable. There are several recommended additions to... Read More
Sanquhar Pottery Project : November Update
Clay from the clay-fields that served the former Sanquhar Brickworks drying in the greenhouse at MERZ. Samples of clay have been posted to Maggie Broadley... Read More
Morane Le Coz : Designing MERZ catalogues, story and book
Designer and Illustrator Morane Le Coz was artist in residence at MERZ during lockdown. Morane worked with P6 at Sanquhar Primary to illustrate the story-book... Read More