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 (2007)
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 June 23rd till September 7th. Carlos Frenk is organising this year’s Solstice Lectures at Sanquhar Town Hall over the evening of Friday 23rd and throughout Saturday 24th June. Charles Jencks... 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 Freytag-Loringhoven’s disappearance from New York and re-emergence in Philadelphia in the spring of 1917. Beginning with a box of chocolates, a bottle of olive oil, and yet another arrest, this... 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 undertaken at Coventry College of Art and the Statements and Analytical Art groups and work in Art & Language up to 1975. The MERZ Bothy was also completed on 20th... 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 in April, 1685,
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 art from 1966-1975 opens on 20th October at 6:00. All welcome. The opening also coincides with a viewing of the new Artist’s Bothy at MERZ built for artists to come,... 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 Airts over the Summer. Sanquhar and the Killing Times Duncan Close Wednesday 12th July 7:00pm Landscapes of Cosmos and Chaos in Nithsdale Professor David Munro Wednesday 16th August 7:00pm Gaia,... 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 based on a spiral configuration drawn from cosmology are exhibited alongside work by Charels Jencks and Rachel Libeskind and models and galaxy making machines interpreted and presented by Carlos Frenk... Read More
Noam & Rachel Libeskind : The Laniakea Supercluster at Cosmic Collisions
MERZ Studio, Sanquhar Cosmologist Noam Libeskind and artist Rachel Libeskind worked together to represent the Liniakea Supercluster at the Cosmic Collisions exhibition at MERZ in Sanquhar. Son and daughter of the architect Daniel Libeskind they are exhibiting alongside their father who is showing designs for the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics at Durham University. From... Read More
Cosmic Collisions: birth, rebirth and the Universe
Cosmic Collisions: birth, rebirth and the Universe is a collaboration which reaches back to the forces and structures at the origin of our Universe and reveals and interprets those forces – those cosmic collisions – in new and unexpected collisions of art, architecture and the cosmos. The exhibition is also a meeting place of creators... Read More
Tim Fitzpatrick and Charles Jencks : This Summer’s Cosmic Collisions in Sanquhar
Cosmic Collisions: art and science exhibition, land art installation, performance and music together with international scientific papers and local conversations on architecture, art and life. All taking place in Sanquhar from June 23 till September 10. For further details and bookings: crawickmultiverse.co.uk
Charles Jencks : The 2017 Solstice Lectures, Town Hall, Sanquhar
The Solstice Lectures run each Summer in late June in Sanquhar’s Town Hall. Featuring a panel of international scientists with an interest in the scale, origins and nature of the universe, this year’s panel is being coordinated by exhibition curator Tim Fitzpatrick and Carlos Frenk of the University of Durham. Running from the evening of... 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 Crawick Multiverse. Jencks introduces the June 23-24th 2017 Solstice speakers with its Cosmology theme together with expectations for the MERZ exhibition running from June 23 till September 10. Here too,... 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.
Nathalie Weadick : Dublin’s Buildings
Nathalie Weadick, Director of the Irish Architecture Foundation, introduces the buildings and architects that help tell the story of Dublin politics and culture, including Daniel Libeskind’s contributions to the regeneration on the waterfront*. From its Georgian library and residential squares to its new canal and seaside developments, Dublin has become a focus for international as... Read More
Flic Revell : Stars have Souls
John Boag visits Flic Revell’s pop-up exhibition at the MERZ Gallery, running from 5-7 February.