Author: Susan Merrick

This work forms part of a larger series of performative investigations in my home town of Aldershot, a military town in the South of England. The images are a response to the physical traces of the military that surround and saturate the town. These particular images formed part of a response also to a group… Continue reading Conversations with the shooting wall Photo Series

A template for socially engaged practice? This is an ongoing project in my local town, Aldershot, taking the methodology from my previous work Statements in Semaphore and tailoring it to fit the needs and desires of local organisations, local audiences and local Artists. Currently applying for funding! The project will present a possible template for… Continue reading conversations with aldershot: Socially engaged Project

Across 2019/2020 I was invited by Barbara Touati-Evans to collaborate with her on her ACE funded project Detangling the Knots. The project combines research in Neuroscience labs with scientists at Southampton University alongside workshops in the community with people who have Dementia and their families. Using research and exploration of the recurrent themes within the… Continue reading Detangling the knots: collaborative project

During November and December 2019 I was invited to join a residency with CAS at Winchester School of Art. The residency was the second iteration of a project started in 2015 titled Laboratory of Dissent. CAS are based in what was originally an old dissenters chapel, a space for those who chose to ‘do things… Continue reading Laboratory of dissent: Residency with CAS

SAFE PLAY AREA is a new ongoing collaboration between Susan Merrick, Katherine Smith and Cherilyn Yeates. We were all comissioned to join a summer residency with Chapel Arts Studios in Anodover (2019) with the theme of the SAFE PLAY AREA. We spent several months communicating and sharing images, ideas and thoughts around the theme, or… Continue reading SAFE PLAY AREA: Summer residency