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
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
Ric Kasini Kadour : Schwitters’ Army Residency
Ric Kasini Kadour was artist in residence at MERZ during January and February 2020. This interview outlines his Schwitters’ Army project involving 200 collages from... Read More
Calum Wallis & Rhona Jack : An Isolated Process
The exhibition by Rhona Jack and Calum Wallis has been in place in the otherwise empty MERZ since they concluded their residency in May. With... Read More
Tonic Arts : Life under Lockdown
David Rushton was lucky enough to be selected by NHS Lothian’s Tonic Arts project to submit work for an exhibition titled Life under Lockdown. Life under... Read More
Julia Zinnbauer : Phonebox Postcards
9th May was World Collage Day. At MERZ in Sanquhar we celebrated the arrival of 200 packages from collage artists around the world: the collages... Read More
MERZ responds to Covid-19 for 9th May ‘exhibition’
To celebrate WORLD COLLAGE DAY on 9th May MERZ had planned to exhibit the 200 or so envelopes and packages in which the Schwitters’ Army... Read More
Pushkin : Collage at MERZ
Norfolk based collagist Pushkin visited artist in residence Ric Kasini Kadour during his residency at MERZ.
David Rushton : Collapse the Box
When over in Scotland in May 2019 to film the Sanquhar Arts Festival the Belfast production company and broadcaster, NvTv interviewed David Rushton. NvTv had... Read More
Ally Wallace : Factory Lines
Ally Wallace was our second Funded Artist in Residence at MERZ, staying from September to November in 2019. In this film Ally outlines the influence... Read More
Amy Marletta and Denise Zygadlo : As the moon sees it
Denise Zygadlo and Amy Marletta‘s exhibition of collages and their work on the Hannah Höch art-house opened on 21st December at the Museum of Model... Read More
David Rushton : Collapse the Box
When over to film the Sanquhar Arts Festival Belfast production company and broadcaster NvTv interviewed Dougie Sharpe and David Rushton. Unbeknown to either artist, NvTv... Read More