Marta Sienkiewicz : Past Participle : Seen through Glass
Alan Robinson and Marta Sienkiewicz-Sutherland with ‘Past Participle : Seen through Glass’ running Saturday 20th April through 31st May at MERZ. Here Marta introduces her... Read More
Simon Beeson : Sway’s SPUD Works
Simon Beeson of the Arts University of Bournemouth introduces the evolving arts centre in Sway, New Forest. Beginning as a studio thirty years ago the... Read More
Paul Howard : MERZ Residency
Paul Howard, artist and curator from Sydney, has been exploring drawing, walking and sound at MERZ during January and February 2019.
Paul Brightwell : MERZSPIEL Trailer (2019)
Actor and playwright Paul Brightwell introduces his play about Kurt Schwitters: MERZSPIEL. This is a new trailer replacing an earlier one first shown on merz.gallery... Read More
Martin Green : Kurt Schwitters has left the building
Martin Green and David Rushton have been working at the MERZ Gallery and Workshop in Sanquhar preparing for an exhibition at Summerhall exploring the legacy... Read More
David Rushton : Kurt Schwitters has left the building
KURT SCHWITTERS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING : STORY AND DISPERSAL, LEGACY AND (RE)POSSESSION On the 70th anniversary of Kurt Schwitters death The Times announced that... Read More
Russell Mills : Kurt Schwitters and Cylinders Estate
Artist and author Russell Mills outlines his view of how the Cylinders Estate in Elterwater, formerly owned by garden designer Harry Pierce and home to... Read More
John Crawford : Leadhills Miners’ Library
John Crawford introduces the world’s oldest subscription library established by the miners of Leadhills in 1741. The Library is open to visitors at weekends and... Read More
David Bainbridge : Paintings
David Bainbridge : Paintings Interview with Raj Chakraborti at the Model Art Gallery in Edinburgh in 2004. David Bainbridge was one of the four founder... Read More
Lily Freeman : PRIMARY 4 at MERZ
Opening night of the PRIMARY 4 exhibition featuring model rooms from Primary Sanquhar together with video news and music clips from Primary 4 at Donbank... Read More
Charles Jencks & Daniel Libeskind : Cosmic Collisions at The Ogden Centre, University of Durham
The architects/artists Charles Jencks and Daniel Libeskind will be exhibiting COSMIC COLLISIONS with the cosmologists Carlos Frenk and Noam Libeskind at MERZ Gallery, Sanquhar from... Read More
Glyn Thompson : Elsa In Philadelphia
Dates: 3rd of August to the 24th September Venue: Long Corridor Elsa in Philadelphia fills in the gaps in the critical period between Elsa von... Read More
Paul Robertson and David Rushton : Conceptual Art 1966-1975
The first of three exhibitions by David Rushton at the MERZ Gallery spanning the years 1966 to the present. This first exhibition focuses on work... Read More
Stuart Paterson : Margaret Wilson’s Abjuration
Stuart introduces and recites his poem at the site of Margaret Wilson’s martyrdom (d.1685) …. A young Wigtown women drowned for refusing the abjuration oath... Read More
Jim Waite interviewed by Matthew Fitt : Wigtown Festival’s Scots Language Poetry award winner
Interviewed by Matthew Fitt, Jim Waite was winner of the 2017 Wigtown Book Festival Poetry award for a poem in the Scots Language category.
Stuart Paterson interviewed by David Rushton : ‘Looking South’ at the Wigtown Book Festival
Interview at the Wigtown Book Festival introducing Stuart’s new book ‘Looking South’ and a forthcoming Gaelic-Scots collaboration.
Dave Rushton and Paul Robertson : In Conversation
This long conversation covers territory that will be further explored in three exhibitions at MERZ in Sanquhar over the winter. The first exhibition, covering Conceptual... Read More
Duncan Close : Sanquhar and the Killing Times
Cosmic Conversations 2017 Local historian Duncan Close unravels the stories of the Covenanters in the first of the Cosmic Conversations being held at A’ the... Read More