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
- National Gallery of Australia's collection of Australian Prints[10]
- Big country road, UNSW Art Collection[11]
- Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Collection[12]
- ‘Damed Breakaway’ Gatineau Jackson Art Collection [13]
- University of Western Sydney[14]
Awards
- 2001 Jackson Smith Sculpture Prize, Defiance Gallery, Sydney[15]
- 1985 Visual Arts Board Grant, New York Studio residency, USA[16]
- 1979 Selected, George's Art Prize, Melbourne[17]
- 1972 Mirror-Waratah Painting Prize, Sydney[18]
- 1972 National Art School Drawing Prize, Sydney[19]
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
- ↑ Biographical cuttings on Merrick Fry, artist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals
- ↑ Merick Fry Early Work (1970s)
- ↑ Biographies Design and Art Australia Online http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/544252?c=people
- ↑ Stick in the mud / by Merrick Fry
- ↑ An intimate view of the Bush, Galleries, John Macdonald, pg 14, The Sydney Morning Herald - Oct 18, 1985, viewed 20 Feb 2015
- ↑ Merrick Fry in Annandale
- ↑ City’s collection valued at $5.6m By BRENDAN ARROW Aug. 25, 2010, 8:54 a.m.
- ↑ Merrick Fry : a life looked at
- ↑ Installation October 2014,SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong
- ↑ FRY, Merrick, Australian Prints + Printmaking
- ↑ Item - Big country roadID UNSW P 1976/0026 (082134)
- ↑ BRAG Catalog
- ↑ Gatineau Jackson Art Collection
- ↑ University of Western Sydney, Art Collection by Year
- ↑ http://merrickfry.com
- ↑ http://merrickfry.com
- ↑ Prize Number of Georges' Entrants, pg 2, The Age, 10 May 1979
- ↑ http://merrickfry.com
- ↑ http://merrickfry.com
- ↑ Merrick Fry: The Charmer's Picnic, Hamilton Design Glass Blog, http://www.stainedglass.com.au/page/Merrick_Fry%3A_The_Charmer%27s_Picnic
- ↑ Coppola Dawson Fry (2010)
- ↑ JANET DAWSON with Merrick Fry - Their Everyday (6 February - 7 March 2015)
- ↑ 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
- ↑ AUG1 Floor talk by Merrick Fry, Artist. https://www.facebook.com/events/302365816565769/