Artist statement
My current practice combines painting with sculpture and the made with the ready-made. My continued interrogation of painting and process has seen me evolve from working exclusively with oil paint and two-dimensions to gradually introducing new materials (Fablon, gaffa tape, furniture, scrap metal, strip lighting, gloss paint) in order to investigate colour, shape and form.
Qualifications and training
- 1997 BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne
Solo exhibitions
- 2011 Paul Merrick, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
- 2010 Solo Show, The Hive Gallery, Barnsley, Yorkshire
- 2009 New Work, Queen's Hall, Hexham
Group exhibitions
- 2012 Malerei : Painting as Object, Transition Gallery, London
- 2012 Malerei : Painting as Object, Newbridge Space, Newcastle Upon Tyne
- 2011 Rotate, Contemporary Art Society Offices, London
- 2011 Remade & Readymade, Constantine Gallery, Middlesborough
- 2010 Northern Futures, The Civic, Barnsley, Yorkshire
- 2010 Business Collectors Network, Gallery North, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2010 Brut Brut, Embassy, Edinburgh Annuale
- 2009 Open09, Matt Roberts Gallery, London
- 2009 Business Collectors Network, Coopers Building, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2008 Tomorrow The Future, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton
- 2008 FUTURE50 - AXIS, PSL - Project Space Leeds, Leeds
- 2008 'All My Favourite Singers Couldn't Sing...', Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
- 2007 'Beacon Of Hope', Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
- 2007 'MOVED', Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
- 2006 Workplace Gallery, Pulse Art Fair, New York
- 2006 'Blue Square Red Wedge', Wasps Gallery, Glasgow
Corporate commissions
- 2005 'Capella Continuum', Northern Rock Headquarters, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 2003 'Cassiopeia', Northern Rock Headquarters, Newcastle upon Tyne
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