Art Particles : Museum of Model Art
David Rushton‘s Art Particles 1/24th scale models opened on 27th May 2023 at the Museum of Model Art having been shown at the first Sanquhar... 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
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
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
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
Jane Frere : Exit – 100 Days of Khaos
A longstanding friend of MERZ Jane Frere introduces her ‘Brexit’ exhibition at Summerhall, Edinburgh. Exit – 100 Days of Khaos is on till the 27th... Read More
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
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
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
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
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
Daniel Libeskind : Cosmic Collisions, The Ogden Centre
Architect Daniel Libeskind talks at Sanquhar Town Hall on 23rd June ahead of the opening of Cosmic Collisions at nearby MERZ. Daniel’s drawings and model... Read More