THE COMMONS: A GATHERING
Join us to mark the culmination of The Commons project **Onsite places are now full, but you are still welcome to register to attend online. When you register, you will be a sent a link that will allow you to access the Zoom meeting at any time. The morning sessions starts at 10.30am (with introductions […]
CORDAGE WORKSHOP WITH ARTIST, CATHERINE MORLAND
Join us for a free artist-led hands-on workshop exploring the story of string. As part of The Commons: Re-Enchanting the World project at The MERL, artist Catherine Morland will lead this afternoon workshop exploring cordage. Cordage making was a technological turning point in our prehistoric development, as important as hand axes, fire and the wheel. […]
DISPERSED SONG WORKSHOP WITH ARTIST, CARL GENT
Join artist Carl Gent as they look at a range of English folk songs, their history and legacy and join them in creating new lyrical and compositional arrangements to be performed and recorded throughout the course of the workshop. The majority of English folk songs have travelled across countries and contexts for centuries. As this […]
MERLy Christmas Shopping Event
ANTHOTYPE WORKSHOP WITH AMANDA COUCH
Join us for a free artist-led workshop exploring the photographic process of anthotype As part of The Commons: Re-Enchanting the World, Amanda Couch will lead a free one day hands-on workshop which explores the Victorian non-toxic photographic process of the anthotype. Using your own images and plants, leaves, flowers, vegetables, you will discover how to […]
51 VOICES: SPOKEN WORD
To mark our 70th year, The MERL is working with people to explore and respond to 51 objects from or collected in 1951 – relating them to priorities and passions of the past, present and future. Throughout 2021, 51 Voices are being mapped to 51 collections items, enabling reflection on midcentury ideas, preoccupations, and creativity […]
FOLAR SYMPOSIUM 2021
The 1951 Festival of Britain was a national celebration to mark Britian’s achievements and recovery following the Second World War, and was timed to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1851 Great Exhibition. In many ways this was also a coming of age for the British landscape architecture profession. On the 70th anniversary of the […]
FIELDS
Sheep. Cow. Farmer. What does a cow feel about tomorrow? What does a farmer think about their future? What does a sheep see? Does living near cows make us happier? When did you last touch a sheep? How are farmers changing? Working with archives, academic and artist research, and interviews, FIELDS invites us to think […]
THE COMMONS FEAST
Join us for the first in-person showcasing of ‘The Commons: Re-Enchanting the World’, a series of installations and interventions across The MERL galleries and gardens responding to the concept of the commons: the natural resources we all share. This includes creative responses by artists and makers including Catherine Morland, Amanda Couch, Sigrid Holmwood, Kelechi Anucha […]
THE COMMONS: RE-ENCHANTING THE WORLD
A new installation in The MERL galleries… The commons defines the natural capital that we all share: land, air, and water. It is a reciprocal social system that cares for and preserves these resources. It relies on relationships of shared knowledge and creativity, which bind us together with more-than-human processes, forces, and resources. When the […]