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
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
Susannah Horton : Two Day Residency at MERZ
Landscape architecture student Susannah Horton stayed at MERZ for a couple of days in December. Susannah explored Charles Jencks’ Multiverse. “Multiverse is fascinating. Even in... 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
Julia Zinnbauer : Peter Womersley
During her extended residency at MERZ Julia Zinnbauer researched, filmed and edited a film on the Scottish Borders’ based architect Peter Womersley. Julia’s earlier films... Read More
MERZ Pottery Project
Over the centuries Sanquhar has been the site of several Brickworks, with the last closing in the 1960s. The clay-fields lie to the north of... Read More
Torquill Tower : P6 with Morane Le Coz
During her residency Morane Le Coz worked with the kids in P6 at Sanquhar Primary to illustrate a story set long-ago in a village near... Read More
SANQUHAR CULTURAL QUARTER
Artist in residence Morane Le Coz has produced some postcards of MERZ that form part of the MAP of the recently announced Sanquhar Cultural Quarter.
Torquill Tower : Morane Le Coz & Sanquhar P6
French illustrator Morane Le Coz has been in residence at MERZ since January. Morane was here on a skill swop to explore video work and... Read More
P6 & Tyler Black : Queensberry Square Playpark Design
Tyler Black’s final animation of Sanquhar Primary P6’s designs for the replacement play structure in Queensberry Square. Working with MERZ and the Kids Council P6... Read More
Andy McDowall : 40 years behind the lens
An exhibition to return to, again and again. Andy McDowall‘s, 40 years behind the lens opened at MERZ on Friday 20th. Andy will be in the... 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.
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
Crichton Conversation : The Crawick Multiverse Story
Filmed at the Crichton Campus in Dumfries in December 2016 Charles Jencks introduces the reasoning and shaping of the 2017 ‘Cosmic Collisions’ additions to his... Read More
WriterStories : Scrievit in Scots
Through poetry and history we explore the connections between Lowland Scots and Ulster Scots in a programme for local channel NvTv transmitting in Northern Ireland.