Merrick Fry
Australian artist (born 1950)
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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 to 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]
- ‘Dammed Breakaway’ Gatineau Jackson Art Collection[13]
- University of Western Sydney[14]
Awards
Exhibitions
In 2015, Merrick Fry had a major exhibition – The Charmer's Picnic.[17]
Merrick Fry has had solo and group exhibitions including with Janet Dawson in Sydney in 2010[18] and they were exhibiting together in Goulbourn in 2015[19] In 1986, a critic wrote of Fry's work: "His surfaces of seemingly agitated linear activity gradually reveal a meaningful structure of the landscape."[20]
In August 2013, the Bathurst Regional Gallery hosted an extensive survey exhibition of Merrick Fry's art[21]