https://www.matthewmerrick.org/home daily 1.0 2026-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1508101061675-7NUWFJKXZG9JI4DLPQ6P/matthew_merrick_drawing.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1508101533463-IPQAPOD5VAS2UF1R9CIC/matthew_merrick_writing.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1662229879971-5NN7BD421T5BY6LWPMDS/matthew-merrick-website-button.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1662230035137-E0FM9553Z5Y7PS1AGZEY/matthew-merrick-website-button2.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1662230074372-874STVWTL9253XIPWE6R/matthew-merrick-website-button3.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1662230105022-T9PYVD9FLTCRLVW9SSX5/matthew-merrick-website-button5.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1662230176841-WZRL39A304W554GJSGB4/matthew-merrick-website-button6.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1662293462409-2F98O31TEK8B7AS0D5AQ/matthew-merrick-website-button4.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/854d6ee0-12ed-4d1f-992f-626efa043ab4/we-all-fall-down-2025-matthew-merrick.jpg Home - Make it stand out We All Fall Down [2025] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/5391443e-fff4-4bcd-beec-64a7c323748f/matthew-merrick-sally-webster-dinners-2023.jpg Home - Make it stand out Sally Webster Dinners [2023] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1713077780341-MXI1YH451GGI6G2OQWHB/watcher-matthew-merrick-art-2024.jpg Home - Watcher [2024] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1698483525749-RUXH506A5M28RTAID65T/I-don_t-know-2023-matthew-merrick-art-01.jpg Home - I don't know I don't know / A-B / Gravity [2023] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1658822247389-BWAFHBDJ5TPIGPR2BOZR/IMG_6899.jpg Home - Valerian [2021] Variation [2021] & Teeter [Vertical] [2021] Ride Your Pony [No.4] Abingdon Studios, Blackpool. 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Photo credit: Matt Wilkinson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1603027103328-RAXLXB2AQ7B7U730QF6M/matthew-merrick-index-studio-reader-2020.gif Home - Index: A Studio Reader (2020) (Available 7.45 Books: Kippenberger Challenge) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1567844299156-M760NMU4SNGFJMOPRVGJ/matthew-merrick-art-mask-2.jpg Home - Scratch on a Retina, Displaced Bright Light Dust (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1567844468787-G04C1W77C0629W9AI4NQ/matthew-merrick-artist-shelf.jpg Home - Scratch on a Retina, Displaced Bright Light Dust (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1567845018521-N2VBT2ZUGRK4RU6FS3BM/matthew-merrick-art-shelf.jpg Home - Scratch on a Retina, Displaced Bright Light Dust (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1564413406608-XDSHVP4RDIW81892KGXV/matthew-merrick-selfie-stick.jpg Home - Selfie Stick (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1562933865651-2TOFQ5U6LA693WRNEKFY/matthew-merrick-art-mirror-mask.gif Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1562708407867-VBKS1L59Q0L1QY7Y6ZBD/matthew-merrick-mirror-eyes.JPG Home - All The Better For Seeing You (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1561477598182-DKBYKCVK03VGMLAS1HJC/PAPER+ON+GREEN-1.jpg Home - Line Rule (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1580408748070-WJR4S1AL2H1HGVZM2BI3/matthew-merrick-lens-yellow-studio-photo-2019.gif Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1580398992547-75W5DYALFA3D54QKN67T/matthew-merrick-yellow-lens-guide-to-virtual-death-2-2019.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1561911533966-4MJG00DZYB9U4ALBQM6V/matthew-merrick-artist-guide-to-virtual-death.jpg Home - A Guide To Virtual Death No. 1/7 (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1561478799139-KA17MO18DET250HNAOO8/heads+3.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1561477627815-YQRQUMULHL4PZV42556C/heads+1.jpg Home - 24 Hour Coverage (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1561479363599-RWWPH0IMOSREHW7X3KV9/matthew-merrick-badge.jpg Home - Murmurous Cacophony - Pinbadge 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1561586925250-NPTHELFQ9UB4IY8EYESR/matthew-merrick-punch-2.jpg Home - 3D Printed Bar Fight (2018) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1561480223972-G3QPQT8L3SRKM1QB55NL/matthew-merrick-periscope-ceiling.jpg Home - Periscope For Seeing The Ceiling (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1561796561343-6BKHY7EW2WZADG839RSE/matthew-merrick-protocol-1.gif Home - Protocol - Periscope No. 1 (2019) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1523556666452-C1Z9V7QH4R3FKSK79KE6/matthew-merrick-enable-engage-empower-art-2018.jpg Home - ENABLENGAGEMPOWER 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1508087352179-XHPIGPDQTHVT12UNHOEE/matthewmerrick.org+2017%3A+exhibition.jpg Home - Winter 2017 and You've Had Your Fun 2015-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1508087315159-F25DORZNO7QEPA7HJRJ7/2017-matthew+merrick-crosses.jpg Home - You've Had Your Fun 2015-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1508087334456-ZFT54BUE28GJD0FXJRJK/matthew+merrick+artist+no.jpg Home - No, Second Iteration 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1508087341103-4L9JJJSVWXNJZZZYLV47/matthewmerrick+dom+omladine+belgrade+2017.jpg Home - No Exhibition Install View https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1508087319997-4OIPAUZM3FM7QEZL0DE1/IMAGES+matthewmerrick.org+2017_update_001%3Aold+vomit+head+1.jpg Home - Old Vomit Head 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1508087382708-XAN87J341NXGO9V6XT25/matthewmerrick.org+old+vomit+head.jpg Home - Old Vomit Head 2016-17 and You've had Your Fun 2015-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1508087290512-CQ3LDMQ4NXGY09WYTB94/2017+matthewmerrick.org+default%3Ano.jpg Home - No, Exhibition at Dom Omladine, Belgrade Brochure from exhibition. Containing text piece created on the occasion of the exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1508102761498-TO9VU3GCPVL49YFC36UO/2017+matthewmerrick.org+default-book-catalogue.jpg Home - Text Piece No 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1508087367037-MLK8I0Q2W6DHJWQMW44I/matthewmerrick.org+default%3A+hands.jpg Home - He Will Probably Get A Slap on the Wrist and That Will Be That 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1508087365360-V1RKZ89HADIY70LP2JO4/matthewmerrick.org+chopped+water+2017.jpg Home - Chopped Water 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1519623544045-B6ARA8VMHC2JSVWXW0WQ/BEGINNING+OF+THE+SIXTH+WORLD+ERA+MATTHEW+MERRICK.jpg Home - The Beginning of the Sixth World Era (2012) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1519623584826-L5RRN3HF9T668N21GAU7/matthew-merrick-lumpen-matter-%26model.jpg Home - Lumpen Matter 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1519623584619-GX9RMFVTMCXCYN4BUX96/a-letter-for-yoko.jpg Home - Letter For Yoko 2013 / Blue Sky Thinking - Philip Coyne Edition 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1519623558291-EWUMHL05TGIPBUVHP5CL/matthew-merrick-blue-sky-thinking-%26model.jpg Home - Cosmic Matter 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1519623591059-8BLH86JCMSRCLSNLZ2FJ/Screen+Shot+2015-08-27+at+13.25.59.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1561912328196-61KWCUF2CJ5D39ITJEVH/matthew-merrick-art-work-assembly-house-2.jpg Home - The Transit of Moonwatcher (2015) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1563353209902-LE8QC3YV31A5NDO2T4TN/matthew-merrick-art-work-assembly-house.jpg Home - Nasothek (2015) shown at Assembly House Leeds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1511725154863-C0VAKW506ZZU4JCPLLCE/matthew-merrick-black-2.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1511725165571-J67A511M9ET6PYCR4VLZ/matthew-merrick-black-4.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1511725155677-ZL1ZVV97HB035ZCBUOR1/matthew-merrick-black-3.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1511725166589-XERATES48USOE0O5SFAQ/matthew-merrick-black.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1511725173951-MFALZZY8241Z9ILOZ9F3/matthew-merrick-paradise-1.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1511725182651-XXNOWJFYG6UKP7SVAWL1/matthew-merrick-paradise-2.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1511725184242-T708ORLE75RGURLN7T9P/matthew-merrick-paradise-3.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1511725189175-WB9N4H5PLCMQ9LJ1WSGW/matthew-merrick-paradise-4.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1511725191635-WX9HU25M5F5I59D6AP3G/matthew-merrick-paradise-6.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1511725198274-1Z4USMS3BUQXJP35YNNK/matthew-merrick-paradise-7.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1511725198970-TJUFIP5ZFVUP11D9E27U/matthew-merrick-paradise-8.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1511725205546-DFG2YLI9HDPN1A506D0K/matthew-merrick-paradise-9.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1511725207691-8IH18QP0LE8XIMKEMSDP/matthew-merrick-paradise-10.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1511725213319-QL1NYD3NI27CS3OWHHVI/matthew-merrick-struan.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1511725221917-E246YKXFZBMQPTFEX8AL/matthew-merrick-untitled.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1511725222566-ZA2U3Q4ZPGO1TG9JIH15/plan-for-drawing.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1511725175511-VTIWXNOFOSN2OVJT5PHD/matthew-merrick-ghosts-of-the-traitors+.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1511725216131-NHO9KHP4K4HDQDP3PVOU/matthew-merrick-the-human-policy.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1511725144443-LDH9EQF1P22Q1KKDW6F8/matthew-merrick-argument-2.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1511725145521-Y8ZROBNGTE3BPXUU1MD5/matthew-merrick-argument.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/336c07f6-8303-4625-896e-136304acb4bb/plants-watered-with-the-tears-of-bas-jan-ader.gif Home - Unoccupied Office Space [Plants Watered with the Tears of Bas Jan Ader [2023-4] 110mm x 178mm, 10 pages, digital print on 90gsm paper A man waters plants in an unoccupied office space in a metropolis, It is a space built for functions that no longer persist, Meditative processes, loaded, languid actions, Illuminated by bright phosphorescent lights, Illuminate, waiting for witnesses, One pure morning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1ea36df2-9f19-43e3-99ec-6b2a811fd535/thousand-yard-stare-matthew-merrick-gif-2024.gif Home - A Thousand Yard Stare [2024] 110mm x 178mm, 20 pages A collection of poems, found text and notes-to-self. A Thousand Yard Stare is a semi-autobiographical account of emotions frozen in time with a sense of introspection and contemplation. A sequel [sort of] for Canto [2020]. Available on request. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/fa9efa83-4c94-48f3-ad1a-2e64df5b4df5/matthew-merrick-sally-webster-dinners-2024.gif Home - Sally Webster Dinners [2024] 148.5mm x 420mm A problematic scale for an exhibition opening, hard to juggle with a glass of wine. A collection of poems, continuing to mull it over and attempting to swerve wooden language. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/8bc6b5a7-f450-45a0-a0c8-762985814f22/Falling-out-of-inifinty-2022-Matthew-Merrick.gif Home - Falling out of Infinity [2022] 110mm x 200mm / 8 Pages / On 90gsm printer paper Self-published collection of writing. Paradoxical moments in vast eternity, suspended in existential uncertainty. Falling into a neural engine, a machine plasticity in junk, as in surplus. A drawing of a box containing sound recordings of its own making. Throwing voices out of one context and into another. Pamphlet available by request. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/9414f6ad-a9c8-4c75-9faf-95a8b9ba195c/matthew-merrick-canto-audiobook.gif Home - Canto [2020] 14.8cm × 21cm, 115kb, 16 pages, unlimited PDF available on request Published as part of 7.45 Books Kippenberger Challenge [2019-20] Mulling-it-over, reading aloud, accented speaking. These texts may be read and heard on infinite loops. Canto: Volume 1 is the first of two short cycles of pseudo-poems written between May-October 2019. Each stanza is intended to drift into, arrive at or tend towards; a poetic form in response to things that are incidental, prosaic or momentary. Others are long term observations. Some are unseen but felt. Out of the context of these short texts, the words or sounds should melt away to be reused, misused or repurposed. The sound of the words in relation to the theme of the text, or how a word's form or meaning might intervene into the content of the overall piece of writing have dictated their grammatical and audible structures. Each text like the form of the book, has been refined over time with the intention that some may tend towards noumenal qualities and/or have almost-not-there, infrathin values. This volume also exists as an audiobook/studio companion which is read by Harry Frost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/67a77915-0303-499f-a60a-1cc01fbcb643/matthew-merrick-teh-gif-art-book.gif Home - Teh [2021] 17cm x 10cm, 90gsm paper, 12 pages, edition of 30, available on request Published as part of 7.45 Books Kippenberger Challenge [2019-20] Swerving teh machines' wooden, mechanical language. Teh text is grammatically correct but it lacks clarity and sounds dull. This is teh real me, live. Teh most innocuous mistake. Abundant and uncontrollable, it is teh product of my urgency to pass thoughts. Teh proof that I am who I say I am. An involuntary product of learning to speed-type on MSN. A future friend. Disengage teh spell-checker. Lamentable homogenised language. A pamphlet of 12 pages to be printed on a workplace or home printer onto any three colours of paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/bdefdcee-2a18-47f1-a725-65e6541a8f84/A+sub-par+translation+book.jpg Home - A Sub-Par Translation [2021] A-Format [110mm x 178mm] 32 pages & double sided insert. Laser-jet print. Typeset in 12pt Times New Roman, edition of 1 (a prop for a future performance - to be read aloud) Speaking with a tongue that does not fit in your mouth, translated, thrown voices create a deviated vocal communication. Encounters with a self. An unsettling loop. Re-reinvention. Re-interpretation. This book is a Stanislaw Lem fan-fiction that has been derived from bad interpretations of poor translations. Contains an insert. A poem: Some Woeful Arrival (2020). Accompanied by a short film: A Sub-Par Translation [Dream Sequence] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/a8b70eb8-a40c-4c85-b970-c421c688f7ce/matthew-merrick-art-green-blue.gif Home - 00b140 [or] 0047bb [2021] 38.4cm x 21.6cm, 36 unbound pages, edition of 10 Published as part of 7.45 Books Kippenberger Challenge [2019-20] Tributes to presence, invisibility and/or not being seen. Form as a spectre, or a visual language, in which visibility is a code, something that can be replaced, that is not intended to be seen. Seen or not being seen, green and/or blue may be removed or hidden. A camera may become an eye that renders the book this way. This book is part of, and contains a cycle of works in which invisibility and being unseen are a shared interest. These are accompanied by a short performance to camera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/bb39f3be-08ca-484f-96c2-41358102c0fd/matthew-merrick-art-a-reek-of-panic.gif Home - A Reek of Panic [2021] 21cm x 14.8cm, 90gsm paper, 20 pages, unique Published as part of 7.45 Books Kippenberger Challenge [2019-20] Nothing here is resolved, not even this description. A cycle, 0.45 of the full text, full of lamentations, misspeak and unfinished sentences. This is a self-deprecating self-critique; 45% of a roast of my indecisiveness. All images are photographs taken whilst checking studio lighting conditions. They have been created and then discarded in the making of other things. Like Lorem Ipsum holding text, they are placeholders, used to see and to define space but not to be read. A Reek of Panic also contains in its form, the process of its own making and clues to the eventual form of the resolved book. In doing this, I have tried to take an organic approach and failed 2 times. Attempts to make a semi-book, or a pseudo-publication have led to serial failures and falling into the trap of accidentally making a full publication. The temporary, prosaic or provisional. One take: a test. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/03e6da01-9d3e-49c4-ba8b-ca926532501b/hari-matthew-merrick-art-2020-21.jpg Home - Hari [2020-21] 13.3cm x 22cm, 90gsm paper, 14 pages, UV Print and laser cut on transparent substrate, bound with 5x M3 transparent bolts, 1/1 Published as part of 7.45 Books Kippenberger Challenge [2019-20] [A book in which all negative space has been replaced by clear transparency] Transparency, seeing things, superimposition, A clarity filling the negative space. Negatives, things that are not really there, A series of mirages, spectres and dream-like entities. These all cycle before a viewer's eyes, Solaris replicates our waking dreams. Like machines or devices that cycle-recycle-cycle, Recycle [y]our desires. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1713077780341-MXI1YH451GGI6G2OQWHB/watcher-matthew-merrick-art-2024.jpg Home - Make it stand out Watcher [2024] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1561480223972-G3QPQT8L3SRKM1QB55NL/matthew-merrick-periscope-ceiling.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/67a77915-0303-499f-a60a-1cc01fbcb643/matthew-merrick-teh-gif-art-book.gif Home - Make it stand out Teh [2021] Published as part of 7.45 Books Kippenberger Challenge [2020-21] 17cm x 10cm, 90gsm paper, 12 pages Edition of 30, available on request Accompanying Text: Swerving teh machines' wooden, mechanical language. Teh text is grammatically correct but it lacks clarity and sounds dull. This is teh real me, live. Teh most innocuous mistake. Abundant and uncontrollable, it is teh product of my urgency to pass thoughts. Teh proof that I am who I say I am. An involuntary product of learning to speed-type on MSN. A future friend. Disengage teh spell-checker. Lamentable homogenised language. A pamphlet of 12 pages to be printed on a workplace or home printer onto any three colours of paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1561796561343-6BKHY7EW2WZADG839RSE/matthew-merrick-protocol-1.gif Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1519623544045-B6ARA8VMHC2JSVWXW0WQ/BEGINNING+OF+THE+SIXTH+WORLD+ERA+MATTHEW+MERRICK.jpg Home - Make it stand out The Beginning of the Sixth World Era [2012] Installation image: Murmurations at &Model [2013]. Group show including works by Philip Coyne and Alfie Strong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1519623558291-EWUMHL05TGIPBUVHP5CL/matthew-merrick-blue-sky-thinking-%26model.jpg Home - Make it stand out Installation image: Murmurations at &Model [2013]. Group show including works by Philip Coyne and Alfie Strong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1519623584826-L5RRN3HF9T668N21GAU7/matthew-merrick-lumpen-matter-%26model.jpg Home - Make it stand out Installation image: Murmurations at &Model [2013]. Group show including works by Philip Coyne and Alfie Strong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1561586925250-NPTHELFQ9UB4IY8EYESR/matthew-merrick-punch-2.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/2bc7b4e2-9b92-45af-a738-665f93e9280a/transparent+book+cover+2.jpg Home - Make it stand out Hari [2021] Published as part of 7.45 Books Kippenberger Challenge 2020-21 13.3cm x 22cm, 90gsm paper, 14 pages, UV Print and laser cut on transparent substrate, bound with 5x M3 transparent bolts, Edition of 1 Accompanying Text: [A book in which all negative space has been replaced by clear transparency] Transparency, seeing things, superimposition, A clarity filling the negative space. Negatives, things that are not really there, A series of mirages, spectres and dream-like entities. These all cycle before a viewer's eyes, Solaris replicates our waking dreams. Like machines or devices that cycle-recycle-cycle, Recycle [y]our desires. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1561479363599-RWWPH0IMOSREHW7X3KV9/matthew-merrick-badge.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/bb39f3be-08ca-484f-96c2-41358102c0fd/matthew-merrick-art-a-reek-of-panic.gif Home - Make it stand out A Reek of Panic [2021] Published as part of 7.45 Books Kippenberger Challenge 2020-21 21cm x 14.8cm, 90gsm paper, 20 pages Edition of 1 Accompanying Text: Nothing here is resolved, not even this description. A cycle, 0.45 of the full text, full of lamentations, misspeak and unfinished sentences. This is a self-deprecating self-critique; 45% of a roast of my indecisiveness. All images are photographs taken whilst checking studio lighting conditions. They have been created and then discarded in the making of other things. Like Lorem Ipsum holding text, they are placeholders, used to see and to define space but not to be read. A Reek of Panic also contains in its form, the process of its own making and clues to the eventual form of the resolved book. In doing this, I have tried to take an organic approach and failed 2 times. Attempts to make a semi-book, or a pseudo-publication have led to serial failures and falling into the trap of accidentally making a full publication. The temporary, prosaic or provisional. One take: a test. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/a8b70eb8-a40c-4c85-b970-c421c688f7ce/matthew-merrick-art-green-blue.gif Home - Make it stand out 00b140 [or] 0047bb [2021] Published as part of 7.45 Books Kippenberger Challenge 2020-21 38.4cm x 21.6cm, 36 unbound pages Edition of 10 Accompanying Text: Tributes to presence, invisibility and/or not being seen. Form as a spectre, or a visual language, in which visibility is a code, something that can be replaced, that is not intended to be seen. Seen or not being seen, green and/or blue may be removed or hidden. A camera may become an eye that renders the book this way. This book is part of, and contains a cycle of works in which invisibility and being unseen are a shared interest. These are accompanied by a short performance to camera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1603027103328-RAXLXB2AQ7B7U730QF6M/matthew-merrick-index-studio-reader-2020.gif Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/3fe180f8-2f62-4c67-8687-ae6a843faeb8/watering-plants-with-bas-jan-aders-tears-matthew-merrick-artist.jpg Home - Make it stand out Watering the plants with Bas Jan Ader’s Tears [2023] Edition of 20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/591468079f7456878baaa536/1ea36df2-9f19-43e3-99ec-6b2a811fd535/thousand-yard-stare-matthew-merrick-gif-2024.gif Home - Make it stand out A Thousand Yard Stare [2024] 110mm x 178mm, 20 pages Accompanying Text: A collection of poems, found text and notes-to-self. A Thousand Yard Stare is a semi-autobiographical account of emotions frozen in time with a sense of introspection and contemplation. A sequel [sort of] for Canto [2020]. 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