Author: Susan Merrick

This month has been exciting as I prepare for my year as Artist in residence for FiLia and also had my first exhibition in this role with Desperate Artwives. This project is completely separate to my MA course, but obviously the work I do will feed into the course and vice versa, in the way… Continue reading Thoughts from January 2017

In December I also had the opportunity to exhibit at the FiLia exhibition ‘Refuge’. As well as being an incredible mix of feminist artists in one place, it was also an amazing opportunity to try my work in a different way. I deceided to have my alphabet on show in order as the alphabet hidden… Continue reading Thoughts from December 2016 part 2

  During the Motherhouse residency in Sep/Oct I started taking photographs of the women artists that I met. I asked them to take on semaphore poses to begin a collection of images that I could use as an alphabet. This work came from the film that I did earlier in the year, ‘Statements in Semaphore’… Continue reading Thoughts from December 2016 Part 1

  Statements in Semaphore For the past two weeks I have been immersed in promoting my crowd funder. This process has been both exhausting and exhilarating. I decided to use it as an opportunity in my art as well as for raising funds for the project. initially I offered rewards that were simple to offer… Continue reading Statements in Semaphore- the weird world of crowdfunding!

Here is the link to my Crowdfunding page!! I’ve had amazing news, that the Arts Council England have approved funding for me to be Artist in Residence with FiLiA, a charitable organisation focused on promoting positive change for women through united action and solidarity whilst also celebrating difference and diversity. But this funding is subject… Continue reading Arts Council! Statements in Semaphore