Author: Susan Merrick

My My My Delilah is a moving image piece focusing on clothing donated to my clothing exchange during 2018. Most of the pieces shown in this piece are from women who have experienced domestic abuse either first hand, or by witnessing it. The work incorporates a narration that reads like a letter, a love letter,… Continue reading Film Work 2018

Below is a selection of photographs from performance and live action from the past four years. For info on each image scroll down! ‘She’s in a nightie!’ and other quotes 2016 performed at Louise Ashcroft’s Unperforming 2016. This piece was also a film work previously and was the start of my exploration into the power… Continue reading Performance

Platform 1 Residency 2018. During this residency (funded by Arts Council England) I was continuing my project Statements in Semaphore. This work involved me collaborating with two other Artists and creating safe workshop spaces for women who were survivors of domestic abuse. Towards the end of the residency I spent a period of time at… Continue reading Statements in semaphore 2018 PArt 1

  In just a few weeks I will be having the final series of events of the year with the Statements in Semaphore project. This time Barbara Touati-Evans and I will be taking over a space at the Princes Hall in Aldershot. We will be creating a growing sculpture, showing a VR installation and running… Continue reading Statements in Semaphore – A series of events part 2

Since March I have been fully focused on my project Statements in Semaphore (of which I am now exhibiting work at Platfrom 1 Gallery, and in October will take the exhibition to the Princes Hall in Aldershot. During this time I have worked with amazing artists Barbara Touati-Evans, Melissa Mostyn and Ema Mano Epps. Together… Continue reading What have I been up to?