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
Jane Frere : Building the Ark
MERZ made a visit to Jane Frere‘s studio with artist Olga Lapteva and designer Anna Seisian from Ukraine. We encountered Jane’s ‘elephant in the room’... Read More
Ginny Krueger : a wee locket
Ginny Krueger is the November artist in residence at MERZ. When travelling Ginny works with inks while at home in the US she focuses on... Read More
Hsin-Yu Chen : MERZ media consultant
Hsin-Yu recently graduated from the University of Portsmouth. As part of her stay at MERZ Hsin-Yu has been devising marketing strategies to interest Mandarin speaking... Read More
Jane Frere : 10 years of Summerhall model
Jane Frere introduces the elements of her ’10 years’ model which due to Covid was not shown at Summerhall. MERZ is hoping to show the... 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
Nicholas Milkovich : The Next Virus
Working with Cabell Glancy’s sounds Nicholas Milkovich explores how synthetic materials can correspond to the ‘man made – or induced – viruses that the world... Read More
Olivia Irvine & Isabelle Bonzom : Fresco at MERZ
Olivia Irvine and Isabelle Bonzom outline the processes and techniques involved in the recent fresco painted at MERZ by Olivia under Isabelle’s guidance.
Glòria Coll Domingo : Poet in Residence
Glòria Coll Domingo is a Catalan poet and musician in residence at MERZ. Her work as a poet has been awarded several prizes: Amadeu Oller... Read More
Jennifer Printz : Artist in Residence
Jennifer Printz has been in residency at MERZ since mid-June arriving from Miami, Florida, USA with funding from Florida International University where she is an assistant... Read More
Daniel Printz : Writer in Residence
Daniel Printz has been finishing his latest novel, “Nuances of Death in Real-Time” while in residence at MERZ throughout late June and July. The book... Read More
Lisa Hall : Sound Artist Residency
Lisa Hall arrived at MERZ for her two week residency with a heavy wheeled suitcase and a smallish rucksac: the suitcase carried a panoply of... Read More
Olivia Irvine : Work starts on the fresco at MERZ
Olivia Irvine has begun work on her fresco at MERZ. Working with her mentor Isabelle, Zoomed in from France, Olivia started preparing the rough-cast coats... Read More
Anna Seisian : Clothing Designer
Arriving recently from Ukraine, Anna Seisian is a clothing designer and maker living for the meantime at MERZ. Anna designs and makes clothes and will... Read More