Collage Seminar on 25th January 2020
The Collage Seminar on 25th January is now fully booked. If you’d like to be advised of any cancellations please contact Jess at hello@merz.gallery.
MERZ Collage Seminar & Workshop 25th January 2020
North American artist Ric Kasini Kadour is co-founder of Kolaj Magazine, and a former gallerist. Ric is our artist in residence at MERZ from 7th January till 21st February. Rhed Fawell is an Edinburgh based artist, an avid Instagram networker who runs the Edinburgh Collage Collective. Rhed will run a practical workshop on collage for... Read More
Amy Marletta & Denise Zygadlo : As the moon sees it
Opening on 21st December at 6:00pm Amy Marletta & Denise Zygadlo at the Museum of Model Art, Sanquhar. And on Boxing Day : 2.00-4.00pm Amy Marletta, David Rushton, Dougie Sharpe & Denise Zygadlo show their work in progress on The Hannah Höch Art-House
Wah Leather : Skill-Swop
Our first skill-swop residency at MERZ offered snowboarder, artist and dry stone-waller Wah Leather an opportunity to work on her snowboard themed designs before going to France to teach over the Winter season. In exchange for accommodation and access to ZIPStudio Wah rebuilt our dry stone wall and the pebbled access into the sculpture green... Read More
SANQUHAR CULTURAL QUARTER
ANDY McDOWALL VENUE: MERZ OPENING Friday 20th December : 6.00pm Andy McDowall : 40 years behind the lens VENUE : MERZ Queens Road Sanquhar Opening 6:00pm Friday 20th December then between 1:00pm and 3:00pm 21st-23rd, 27th-29th and 2nd-4th January I have been capturing images of people and places within our community for a number of... Read More
Nith.TV : Kelloholm P6
Dave and Jess began work with P6 at Kelloholm Primary in November to help set up a Kids Council. Convenor Jade Davidson hopes to bring the Kids Councils from P6 in Sanquhar and Kelloholm together in 2020. Meanwhile both primary schools are exploring what they’d like to change in their immediate area.
New logo for Museum of Model Art, Sanquhar
1:24 is the scale of (most of) the models displayed in the Museum of Model Art. This small museum in Sanquhar successfully registered ‘MoMA’ in its yellow mark in the UK (UK00003410571). The New York based Museum of Modern Art has a longstanding use of ‘MoMA’ and had registered ‘MoMA’ in the EU. The New... Read More
David Rushton : Collapse the Box
When over to film the Sanquhar Arts Festival Belfast production company and broadcaster NvTv interviewed Dougie Sharpe and David Rushton. Unbeknown to either artist, NvTv had shot enough footage to edit a programme on Dougie and later on David for their ‘Collapse the Box’ series. In this episode David Rushton talks about his reasons for... Read More
SNUG
Latest living accommodation for artists and visitors at MERZ is in our centrally heated flat. SNUG nestles into the far corner of the floor being converted into offices for MERZ alongside the director’s living accommodation. With loft bed, seating, desk, WiFi, an en suite shower-room and TV, visitors to SNUG share the large communal kitchen... Read More
Primary 6 : Kids Council Hustings
Following the Summer’s decision to form a Kids Council kids in P6 at Sanquhar Primary have been exploring the election process. Here those who volunteered to stand for election to the Kids Council present their manifestos. Nith.TV and the Sanquhar Kids Council are supported by the Holywood Trust.
Ally Wallace : FACTORY LINES
Ally Wallace : Factory Lines Opens at MERZ, Queens Road at 6:00pm Friday 8th November. All welcome. And … open over the weekend 11.00am – 4:00pm Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th November. Ally has been our artist in residence at MERZ since September 2019. Focusing on the representation of buildings Ally has followed – through... Read More
Sanquhar Cultural Quarter : Winter Exhibitions
The Winter Exhibitions at MERZ, MoMA and кино featuring photographs by Andy McDowall, collages & designs by Amy Marletta & Denise Zygadlo and David Rushton & Dougie Sharpe. For latest details see: https://www.facebook.com/MERZGallery/
Ally Wallace : Factory Lines
Ally’s short animation of the tank that sits on top of the former Glove Factory at Station Yard in Sanquhar. Up to the end of the 1990s the ‘glove factory’ was a hive of activity knitting sweaters and gloves for the McGeorge brand, which were sometimes re-labelled as the more well-known Pringles. Ally’s exhibition at... Read More
Catriona Robertson : This Way That Way
Catriona Robertson was our first funded artist in residence at MERZ in Sanquhar. Cat had been visiting Kurt Schwitters’ MERZ Barn in Elterwater over the last two years and suggested a path from Schwitters’ last work in the UK into the Reconstruction and Fabrication legacy maintained in Sanquhar. Diuring her stay from July to September... Read More
Hannah Hoch art-house joins Kurt Schwitters
Dougie Sharpe‘s nearly finished painting the second MERZ art-house. Amy Marletta and Denise Zygladlo will be interpreting Hanna Hoch‘s work/life through new collages and puppetry(!) in the ‘house’. An exhibition of Amy and Denise’s work will coincide with the 100th anniversary of Hoch’s contribution to photomontage and will be held at MoMA, Sanquhar at 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 October. The exhibition also features animation by Georges Eloi Thibault who worked closely with Jane over a period of seven months.
Catriona Robertson : Mobile Sculpture on Parade
Artist in Residence Catriona Robertson enters her wooden horse in the Parade as part of Sanquhar’s Riding of the Marches. With Erin, Lilly and Autumn, Cat and the horse were awarded second place in the walking category.
THE AIRTS THE WIND CAN BLAW : Sanquhar Arts Festival
NvTv’s programme about Sanquhar filmed during the first Sanquhar Arts Festival in May 2019. Organised by MERZ, A’ the Airts and the Upper Nithsdale Tourism Partnership.