Merrick Fry

Merrick Fry is an Australian artist who was born in Bathurst in 1950.[1] Fry studied at the East Sydney Technical College (now the National Art School) from 1970 – 1972,[2] graduating in 1973[3]

In 1985, Fry wrote and illustrated Stick in the Mud.[4] In the same year, critic John Macdonald described his work as an "intimate view of the bush".[5]

Fry created the images for the Wooly Mammoth Campaign and Annandale Heritage Festival.[6]

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery has 25 works by Merrick Fry.[7] In 2013 the Bathurst Gallery hosted a retrospective exhibition of Fry's work "Merrick Fry: A Life Looked At"[8]

In 2014, Fry was commissioned to install a work in the foyer of the SMART Infrastructure Facility at Wollongong University.[9]

Collections

Awards

Exhibitions

In 2015, Merrick Fry had a major exhibition - The Charmer's Picnic.[20]

Merrick Fry has had solo and group exhibitions including with Janet Dawson in Sydney in 2010[21] and they are exhibiting together in Goulbourn in 2015 [22] In 1986, a critic wrote of Fry's work: "His surfaces of seemingly agitated linear activity gradually reveal a meaningful structure of landscape."[23]

In August 2013, the Bathurst Regional Gallery hosted an extensive survey exhibition of Merrick Fry's art [24]

References

  1. Biographical cuttings on Merrick Fry, artist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals
  2. Merick Fry Early Work (1970s)
  3. Biographies Design and Art Australia Online http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/544252?c=people
  4. Stick in the mud / by Merrick Fry
  5. An intimate view of the Bush, Galleries, John Macdonald, pg 14, The Sydney Morning Herald - Oct 18, 1985, viewed 20 Feb 2015
  6. Merrick Fry in Annandale
  7. City’s collection valued at $5.6m By BRENDAN ARROW Aug. 25, 2010, 8:54 a.m.
  8. Merrick Fry : a life looked at
  9. Installation October 2014,SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong
  10. FRY, Merrick, Australian Prints + Printmaking
  11. Item - Big country roadID UNSW P 1976/0026 (082134)
  12. BRAG Catalog
  13. Gatineau Jackson Art Collection
  14. University of Western Sydney, Art Collection by Year
  15. http://merrickfry.com
  16. http://merrickfry.com
  17. Prize Number of Georges' Entrants, pg 2, The Age, 10 May 1979
  18. http://merrickfry.com
  19. http://merrickfry.com
  20. Merrick Fry: The Charmer's Picnic, Hamilton Design Glass Blog, http://www.stainedglass.com.au/page/Merrick_Fry%3A_The_Charmer%27s_Picnic
  21. Coppola Dawson Fry (2010)
  22. JANET DAWSON with Merrick Fry - Their Everyday (6 February - 7 March 2015)
  23. 1986 'Features ART One trio, three treats.', The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 19 August, p. 10, viewed 21 January, 2015, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article119469625
  24. AUG1 Floor talk by Merrick Fry, Artist. https://www.facebook.com/events/302365816565769/
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