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.
Bill Ross : Crooks and Sticks
Former miner Bill Ross made exquisite shepherd’s crooks and walking sticks in his shed in Sanquhar.
Charles Jencks and Alex Rigg : Landscape of Waves
MERZ Gallery, Sanquhar, had an exhibition of the artwork of Charles Jencks and Alex Rigg, in conjunction with the Summer Solstice Festival at the The Crawick Multiverse, on the weekend of June 24-26th. Exhibition opened 24 June – 3 September 2016 The exhibition featured the idea that wave-forms permeate all of nature and the cosmos. Not... Read More
David Rushton : Reconstruction and Fabrication
Raj Chakraborti’s interview with David Rushton at the Reconstruction and Fabrication exhibition at the Model Art Gallery in Edinburgh in 2004.
Jeffrey Hoffman and Charles Jencks : Astrophysicist & Astronaut, Artist & Architect
A’ the Airts, the Crawick Multiverse and MERZ Gallery in Sanquhar recently hosted a conversation between Jeffrey Hoffman and Charles Jencks as part of the MERZ exhibition ‘Landscape of the Waves’, featuring the work of Alex Rigg and Charles Jencks and developments at the Crawick Multiverse. Jeffrey Hoffman made five flights as a space shuttle... Read More
Ian Hunter : Kurt Schwitters MERZ Barn
Ian Hunter of the Littoral Arts Trust outlines Kurt Schwitter’s migration story. Fleeing the Nazis to Norway before the outbreak of war Schwitters left on the last boat out to Scotland, landing in Leith. Schwitters was initially interned in Edinburgh Castle then on the Isle of Man before being released to eventually settle in Ambleside.... Read More
Ian Hunter and Celia Larner : The Elterwater MERZ Barn
Ian Hunter and Celia Larner of the Littoral Trust, an artist-led research and development agency, bought Kurt Schwitters MERZ Barn. Here they discuss priorities for opening the small farm around the MERZ Barn for artists and students to explore changes in the rural economy and develop links with refugee artists and cultures.
The Merz Barn Project
Participants of the Merz Barn Project discuss the future developments and plans for the Cylinders Estate, which includes developing the Merz Barn buildings and woodland in the garden-ground, first developed by Harry Pierce, in the 1940s. The Elterwater Merz Barn is the last of four of Kurt Schwitters’ ‘Merzbau’ projects that he had been working... Read More
Sanquhar Pattern Knitting
Anne Foley and May McCormick introduce developments in Sanquhar to secure the future of the town’s celebrated knitting pattern.