Jane Frere & Anna Seisian : Catch-Up 2025
Anna Seisian and Jane Frere last met in 2022. In a recent visit to Jane’s Highland studio in the artists explore the development of Jane’s... Read More
Christine Marie Nobre : Artist in Residence
Christine Marie Nobre was in residence at MERZ during March and April. Like the Romantic Poets of the River Nith, that flows through Sanquhar, Christine... Read More
Keely Dolan : Artist in Residence
Keely arrived at MERZ from Seattle at the beginning of March. Keely has been staying in the Bothy on the MERZ gallery site. This short... Read More
Sanquhar Post Office : Barry Ford
As part of the 2025 MERZ mail art EXHIBITION Postmaster Barry Ford relates the story of the postal service from before the post offices were... Read More
Polly Read & Danriil Chesnov : MERZ Mail Art & Response
Danriil Chesnov from Kelloholm Primary responds to Polly Read’s poem and drawing of the Kent Downs. Artists were invited to submit mail art to MERZ... Read More
Charles Jencks : Landscape of Waves
One of several films by Summerhall TV filmed at MERZ in which Charles Jencks outlines plans for the Multiverse, under construction at nearby Crawick. Brought out of... Read More
Adrian McNaught : Building the Future
Adrian McNaught introduces the Building the Future exhibition at MERZ. The exhibition involves work by artists and architects David Rushton, Derrie Pearson, Adrian McNaught and... Read More
Amilia Wark & Conlan Baillie : S1 Hutting Models
As part of the ongoing Brickfields Project students from Sanquhar Academy have been designing huts. Amilia Wark and Conlan Baillie introduce the work of the... Read More
Art as Multimedia : MERZ exhibition featuring graduates from Bard College
Summerhall TV‘s Interview with Carolee Shneemann. The film of Carolee’s talk at Summerhall features in the MERZ exhibition Art as Multimedia – with print, film... Read More
Cold War Conversations : MERZ
The 35th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down was not commemorated much in Britain last weekend. It is no Poppy Day. The unravelling of... Read More
Cold War Conversations
This is a FINAL CALL-OUT to older artists for jpgs of their interventions in art supporting peace and anti-nuclear protests during the 1980s. We’re... Read More
Ruth Cohen : Summer Residency at MERZ
At MERZ, Ruth Cohen continued paintings for her ‘The Backs of Women’ series. The images are women photographed in India, France, Spain and Scotland. Film... Read More
Jo Truscott : August stained glass with Keira Mclean
Jo Truscott explains how the stained glass course and residency at MERZ with Keira Mclean has contributed to her journey in glass making following her... Read More
Beth Shupe : Stained Glass at MERZ
Beth Shupe attended the August stained glass course and residency at MERZ. Glass artist Keira Mclean supported the artists to work on their own designs... Read More
Stacie Amelia : Celebrating Women in Photography
In this short clip photographer Stacie Amelia introduces A Celebration of Women in Photography at MERZ, Queens Road, Sanquhar. 10th to 16th August from 10:00-4:00.... Read More
Edward Ryan : Brickfields Project
Local film and model maker Edward Ryan considers the valuable experience that could be gained and shared if young people engage in the creative design... Read More
Cindy Dominguez : Summit to Sea
Exhibition at MERZ of paintings by Albuquerque artist in residence Cindy Dominguez explore the landscape, colour and sensations of Scotland in contrast to those of... Read More
SANQUHAR ARTS FESTIVAL 2024 : let’s fill this town with artists
This year’s Sanquhar Arts Festival recalled the fifteen years of MERZ artist’s engagement, particularly on the theme of reconstruction & fabrication. Borrowing from Kurt Schwitters‘... Read More