Visual Artist in
Residence , Carlisle Pier
Julie Merriman 2005 - 2010
Dún
Laoghaire Rathdown County Council in partnership with Harbour Board and
The Arts Council are delighted to announce Julie Merriman as Artist in Residence
at the Carlisle Pier.
Julie Merriman is a visual artist based in Dublin, Ireland. She studied fine art in Falmouth College of Art. She has exhibited widely with solo and group shows, including a solo show in the West Cork Arts Centre in 2006, Eurojet Futures, RHA, Dublin in 2004 and 2005; EV+A, Limerick in 1993, 1998 and 2003; The Utopias Fair in Eigse, Carlow in 2006, and The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin. She has also shown work in England and France. She has been the received several artist's bursaries and awards from the Arts Council and the EV+A ‘03 Open Award.
Her practice is in various media including installation and she is currently focusing on drawing.
Over the course of the next five years visual artist Julie Merriman will be documenting the process of change on the Carlisle Pier, through the medium of drawing. There will be significant visual impacts on the harbour and its public during this period of change.
Perhaps the time spent generating new spaces can be perceived as excluding or suspending the public's ownership or access. We the public tend to consider buildings arrive rather than grow. This growing or change process is a point of significant interest to the artist.
The intention is that the artist becomes a conduit of vision for the public. Through the observation of change and growth, the work of the artist becomes a point of access. Julie intends making a series of drawings observing the Carlisle Pier before, during, and after demolition and during site redevelopment, through to completed building. She is interested in allowing memory and association into the construction of these drawings; not in an obvious way, but obliquely.
Julie intends looking not only at the buildings present and future state, but also at its past. This ties in with her ambition to make work, not just directly about the Carlisle Pier as a building, but about the publics (and her own) associated emotions with it. She thinks it is important to acknowledge that this is an emotive building, even in its present condition. This part of the project will, in essence, be a series of commemorative drawings; drawing in the form of offering.
Press Release - Juie Merriman, Carlisle Pier - Pavilion Theatre - Nov 6 - 22, 2008
