Grant Awarded for R&D Phase!!!

I have been lucky enough to receive a new grant from Arts Council England for a Research and Development phase of SIS during 2019!. This is a time for some personal practice development, to activate new skills, keep my brain being challenged and to ensure my practice remains impactful and to share not only the…

Clothing Exchange 2018 Susan Merrick – A clothing exchange set up for both SERIES OF EVENTS 2018. Participants/audience were invited to exchange something for a piece of clothing. The ‘something’ could be anything from clothes, to a song, to a piece of information.
Unfinished 2018 Barbara Touati-Evans, Susan Merrick and Audience – A growing and changing installation created for the space at Princes Hall, Aldershot.
Clothing Exchange 2018 Susan Merrick – A clothing exchange set up for both SERIES OF EVENTS 2018. Participants/audience were invited to exchange something for a piece of clothing. The ‘something’ could be anything from clothes, to a song, to a piece of information.
Selfie 2018 Melissa Mostyn
Reaching 2018 Melissa Mostyn
Reaching 2018 Melissa Mostyn
Clothing Exchange 2018 Susan Merrick – A clothing exchange set up for both SERIES OF EVENTS 2018. Participants/audience were invited to exchange something for a piece of clothing. The ‘something’ could be anything from clothes, to a song, to a piece of information.
Clothing Exchange 2018 Susan Merrick – A clothing exchange set up for both SERIES OF EVENTS 2018. Participants/audience were invited to exchange something for a piece of clothing. The ‘something’ could be anything from clothes, to a song, to a piece of information.
Unfinished 2018 Barbara Touati-Evans, Susan Merrick and Audience – A growing and changing installation created for the space at Princes Hall, Aldershot.
Clothing Exchange 2018 Susan Merrick – A clothing exchange set up for both SERIES OF EVENTS 2018. Participants/audience were invited to exchange something for a piece of clothing. The ‘something’ could be anything from clothes, to a song, to a piece of information.
Unfinished 2018 Barbara Touati-Evans, Susan Merrick and Audience – A growing and changing installation created for the space at Princes Hall, Aldershot.
Unfinished 2018 Barbara Touati-Evans, Susan Merrick and Audience – A growing and changing installation created for the space at Princes Hall, Aldershot.
Unfinished 2018 Barbara Touati-Evans, Susan Merrick and Audience – A growing and changing installation created for the space at Princes Hall, Aldershot.
Unfinished 2018 Barbara Touati-Evans, Susan Merrick and Audience – A growing and changing installation created for the space at Princes Hall, Aldershot.

October – A SERIES OF EVENTS – Part 2 – In Pictures!

A Series of 10 Semi Spontaneous Performances made across the five days of exhibition atPlatform 1 Gallery, Sept 2018.
A Series of 10 Semi Spontaneous Performances made across the five days of exhibition atPlatform 1 Gallery, Sept 2018.
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A Series of 10 Semi Spontaneous Performances made across the five days of exhibition atPlatform 1 Gallery, Sept 2018.
Clothing Exchange 2018 Susan Merrick – A clothing exchange set up for both SERIES OF EVENTS 2018. Participants/audience were invited to exchange something for a piece of clothing. The ‘something’ could be anything from clothes, to a song, to a piece of information.
Clothing Exchange 2018 Susan Merrick – A clothing exchange set up for both SERIES OF EVENTS 2018. Participants/audience were invited to exchange something for a piece of clothing. The ‘something’ could be anything from clothes, to a song, to a piece of information.
Clothing Exchange 2018 Susan Merrick – A clothing exchange set up for both SERIES OF EVENTS 2018. Participants/audience were invited to exchange something for a piece of clothing. The ‘something’ could be anything from clothes, to a song, to a piece of information.
A Series of 10 Semi Spontaneous Performances made across the five days of exhibition atPlatform 1 Gallery, Sept 2018.
Clothing Exchange 2018 Susan Merrick – A clothing exchange set up for both SERIES OF EVENTS 2018. Participants/audience were invited to exchange something for a piece of clothing. The ‘something’ could be anything from clothes, to a song, to a piece of information.
Reaching 2018 Melissa Mostyn
A Series of 10 Semi Spontaneous Performances made across the five days of exhibition atPlatform 1 Gallery, Sept 2018 and Clothing Exchange 2018 Susan Merrick – A clothing exchange set up for both SERIES OF EVENTS 2018. Participants/audience were invited to exchange something for a piece of clothing. The ‘something’ could be anything from clothes, to a song, to a piece of information.
Clothing Exchange 2018 Susan Merrick – A clothing exchange set up for both SERIES OF EVENTS 2018. Participants/audience were invited to exchange something for a piece of clothing. The ‘something’ could be anything from clothes, to a song, to a piece of information.
A Series of 10 Semi Spontaneous Performances made across the five days of exhibition atPlatform 1 Gallery, Sept 2018.

September – A SERIES OF EVENTS-Part 1 Some Pictures!

Two Women. One Seated, One Standing. 2018 Susan Merrick and Barbara Touati-Evans
Melissa Mostyn has enjoyed a portfolio career as an artist, writer and film-maker for over twenty years, adopting a variety of roles for Shape, Maverick Television, Disability Arts Online, Deafnitely Theatre, Architecture Week South- East, Tate and V&A. Before having children, for five years Melissa led a groundbreaking Deaf visual art project, Salon, funded by Arts Council England and the Esme Fairbairn Foundation, and had journalism published in The Independent, Esquire and Vogue. Since becoming a parent Melissa has committed herself to empowering others through her work, particularly Deaf women. She has presented in BSL for DeafHope, Women’s Aid, NHS Safeguarding and the British Society for Mental Health and Deafness, and published an e-book, My Daughter and I. Melissa’s last film, listen, even when your heart is crying (2014), was Official Selection for Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2015 and Best Documentary nominee in the CINEDEAF Awards 2015.
Clothing Exchange 2018 Susan Merrick – A clothing exchange set up for both SERIES OF EVENTS 2018. Participants/audience were invited to exchange something for a piece of clothing. The ‘something’ could be anything from clothes, to a song, to a piece of information.
Debrief 2018 Susan Merrick and Melissa Mostyn – Performance and Film
Two Women. One Seated, One Standing. 2018 Susan Merrick and Barbara Touati-Evans

August – Statements in Semaphore 2018 -Works in Progress in Pictures

Images from our workshops, Artist days, inspiration from around Aldershot and Wandsworth stations and Work In Progress pictures from across the project in 2018!

A SERIES OF EVENTS part 1

The first of two events we are running as part of Statements in Semaphore this year. Come along and hear about what we have been up to, have a chat and a cuppa to find out about the work we have been doing and who we have been working with!

June 2018 – Control

This month I have been reflecting on the conversations that have happened both during and in response to the project so far this year. Sometimes the dialogue is heavy, with myself and another Artist perhaps agonising over details or the social politics of an issue. At other times,  it is simply one comment, from one…