Merryn Trevethan

Website: www.merryntrevethan.com

Area of Operation: Hong Kong

Merryn Trevethan was born in Melbourne, Australia and is currently based in Hong Kong. She works across a range of mediums from large-scale wall works and public art to painting, drawing, artist books and sculpture. Merryn is best known for her abstracted cityscapes depicted with highly saturated colours. Her work is a reflection on her experiences of living in increasingly globalised cities, constantly in a state of flux. It maps the invisible networks that connect us, reminding us of the impact of technologies on our perception of colour and our sense of space. Merryn received a Masters of Fine Art from Monash University, Australia in 2005. In 2015 and 2016 she was commissioned by Facebook to create murals for their Singapore offices. She was awarded first prize for DRIVE - Public Art Prize, Gillman Barracks, Singapore (2015). Recent solo exhibitions include Ruin Nation (2018) and Provable Falsehoods (2017) at Fox Galleries, Melbourne; The Party’s Over (2016) at Australian High Commission, Singapore. Group exhibitions include This Wild Song, Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne (2018); Abstraction 2018, Five Walls Projects, Melbourne and Apertures, Yeo Workshop, Singapore (2017). She was a 2018 resident at Sam and Adele Golden Foundation Residency Program in New York. Where she spent a month exploring the possibilities of acrylics and deepening her technical knowledge of all things acrylic. She is a past residence at PointB Worklodge, New York? (2011), Red Gate International Artist Residency, China (2009) and NPE Print residency, Singapore (2018). Trevethan is a dedicated teacher, running regular programs and workshops in both Melbourne and Singapore.She is a tutor at The Art Room, Melbourne. In Singapore, she works with local organization Art Outreach to deliver a range of educational programs for children and families as well as working with several international schools as Artist in Residence.

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