Three Collage Artist Residencies in Scotland : 6-28 April 2023
MERZ will be hosting the Kolaj Institute’s three week-long residencies throughout April. Following a successful collage residency programme September 2022, April we’ll see thirty... Read More
Untitled (2022) MERZ film in Festivals
In December the MERZ animation Untitled (2022) was one of fifty films screened at the European Short Film Festival in Berlin. On 25th February Untitled... Read More
Sanquhar Pottery Project
Kristin Powers has joined MERZ for a couple of months to assist refining the local clay. For this year’s Sanquhar Arts Festival at the end... Read More
Cat Robertson : Artist in Residence at Merz Elterwater, during KS75
During the Summer of 2022 Catriona Robertson was artist in residence at Merz in Elterwater. In 2019 Cat had been the first artist in residence... Read More
Schwitters’ Army Reunion
In September 2022 the Schwitters’ Army Reunion celebrated the archive of 202 collages collected during Ric Kasini Kadour’s residency at MERZ in early 2020. A... Read More
Untitled (2022)
A ten minute film based on footage found in Kurt Schwitters’ former lodgings in Ambleside. Premiered at the reunion of the Schwitters’ Army at MERZ, Sanquhar... Read More
PUSSY RIOT : RIOT DAYS
Pussy Riot filmed three years ago at Summerhall in Edinburgh. Republished in solidarity with the resistance.
KURT SCHWITTERS NEEDS A PEE
In the final months of his life Kurt Schwitters visited the MERZ barn at Elterwater to work on his installation. Kurt’s poor health, combined with... Read More
Laia Gimeno : Models of Journeys and Refuge
MERZ artist in residence Laia Gimeno introduces Models of Journeys and Refuge, an exhibition at the Museum of Model Art from 28th to 30th December... Read More
Laia Gimeno : Models of Journeys and Refuge
Laia Gimeno is currently an artist in residence at MERZ. Laia has been working on the set and models for Kurt Schwitters-Hannah Höch : the... Read More
Olivia Irvine : Familial Places
Recent MERZ artist in residence Olivia Irvine received a Creative Scotland Open Fund Bursary to research and develop ideas based on her family. Olivia spent... Read More
Life under Lockdown
Appearing at MERZ for a limited run, the exhibition Life under Lockdown features the work of seven artists from their teens to their seventies. Running... Read More
SANQUHAR ARTS FESTIVAL 2021
Collage Unveiling : Performance MERZ Queen’s Road 27th August 6:30 Denise Zygadlo and Amy Marletta began constructing their 8’ x 8’ collage for May’s World... Read More
Linda Kosciewicz : Souvenir
Linda Kosciewicz was artist in residence at MERZ for a couple of weeks in June. Linda explored several stories associated with the Napoleonic soldiers imprisoned... Read More
Linda Kosciewicz : Sodgers Pool & Inscriptions
People make history! And Sanquhar is rich in stories. Linda Kosciewicz’s initial quest during her residency was to find her subject in Sanquhar and particularly... Read More
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
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