Author: Susan Merrick

In July 2019 Hackers – or some algorithm – decided that my site was interesting enough to hack. They added a ton of blog posts and changed all access etc. As flattered as I was that they chose to play on my website I didn’t really want to keep it all and had to do… Continue reading A load of lost blog posts 🙂

2018 During 2018 Barbara collaborated with me during two projects. My residency with Floating Island Gallery and then with my project Statements in Semaphore 2018. Our collaborations involve us combining and challenging each others practice, my performance and intervention work with Barbara’s soft wool sculptures. Barara increasibly wanted to attempt larger scale structures, and I… Continue reading collaborations with barbara touati-evans

Across the past three years I have been working with Amy Dignam at Desperate Artwives as both an Artist submitting performance proposals, but also instigating collaborative works including takeovers of public spaces – a physical and online takeover by women artists focusing on spaces of under-representation of women. Our most recent project is Woman Up!… Continue reading Collaborations with Desperate artwives

Louise Ashcroft has been putting together her evenings titled Unperforming for the past five years. I have been involved in several of these events now in both 2015 and 2019. The work I have tried out in these evenings has been experimental, considering how I can use performance to explore the role of Interpreter that… Continue reading Unperforming Work

Conversations in a Bucket 2016 and other works that became my initial exploration into social engagement. These works are mostly performative or photographic works in which I situate myself in a town or place known to me, that is distinctly NOT considered an Art space. These spaces have included my current home of Aldershot, the… Continue reading Conversations in a bucket and other works