Merrick Fry
{{short description|Australian artist (born 1950)}}
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Merrick Fry is an Australian artist who was born in Bathurst in 1950.{{cite web |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/45579308 |title=[Biographical cuttings on Merrick Fry, artist and stripper, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] |date=5 December 2018 |publisher=Trove}} Fry studied at the East Sydney Technical College (now the National Art School) from 1970 to 1972,{{cite web |url=http://www.merrickfry.com/gall21/merrick-fry-exhibitions21.htm |title=Merick Fry Early Work (1970s) |access-date=2015-01-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125033158/http://www.merrickfry.com/gall21/merrick-fry-exhibitions21.htm |archive-date=25 January 2014 |url-status=dead }} graduating in 1973Biographies Design and Art Australia Online http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/544252?c=people {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151128064620/http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/544252?c=people |date=28 November 2015 }}
In 1985, Fry wrote and illustrated Stick in the Mud.{{cite web |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/22157055 |title=Stick in the Mud |first=Merrick |last=Fry |date=5 December 1985 |publisher=Balgowlah, N.S.W. : Boobook |via=Trove}} In the same year,
critic John Macdonald described his work as an "intimate view of the bush".An intimate view of the Bush, Galleries, John Macdonald, pg 14, [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19851018&id=cjZWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KugDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5675,1562680 The Sydney Morning Herald – Oct 18, 1985], viewed 20 February 2015
Fry created the images for the Wooly Mammoth Campaign and Annandale Heritage Festival.{{cite web |url=http://merrickfry.com/annandale/ |title=Merrick Fry in Annandale}}
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery has 25 works by Merrick Fry.{{cite web |url=http://www.westernadvocate.com.au/story/911493/citys-collection-valued-at-56m/ |title=City's collection valued at $5.6m |first=BRENDAN |last=ARROW |date=25 August 2010 |website=Western Advocate}} In 2013 the Bathurst Gallery hosted a retrospective exhibition of Fry's work "Merrick Fry: A Life Looked At"{{cite web |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/206726565 |title=Merrick Fry : a life looked at |first1=Merrick |last1=Fry |first2=author.), Ann |last2=Hale |first3=), Richard |last3=Perram |first4=Bathurst Regional Art Gallery |last4=institutions) |date=5 December 2018 |publisher=Bathurst, N.S.W. Bathurst regional Art Gallery |via=Trove}}
In 2014, Fry was commissioned to install a work in the foyer of the SMART Infrastructure Facility at Wollongong University.{{cite web |url=http://merrickfry.com/SMART-OCT2014/ |title=Installation October 2014,SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong |access-date=2015-01-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218035320/http://merrickfry.com/SMART-OCT2014/ |archive-date=18 February 2015 |url-status=dead }}
Collections
- National Gallery of Australia's collection of Australian Prints{{cite web |url=http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/artists/1633/works/ |title=FRY, Merrick (1950–) · Related works · Australian Prints + Printmaking |website=printsandprintmaking.gov.au}}
- Big country road, UNSW Art Collection{{cite web |url=https://www.artcollection.unsw.edu.au/collection/items/201021215148_082134.html |title=Item – Big country roadID UNSW P 1976/0026 (082134) |access-date=2015-02-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217022948/https://www.artcollection.unsw.edu.au/collection/items/201021215148_082134.html |archive-date=2015-02-17 |url-status=live }}
- Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Collection[http://www.bathurstart.com.au/collection/search-collection.html?start=1600 BRAG Catalog] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218035410/http://www.bathurstart.com.au/collection/search-collection.html?start=1600 |date=18 February 2015 }}
- ‘Dammed Breakaway’ Gatineau Jackson Art Collection[http://www.outbackarts.com.au/gatineau-jackson-art-collection/ Gatineau Jackson Art Collection] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220081005/http://www.outbackarts.com.au/gatineau-jackson-art-collection/ |date=20 February 2015 }}
- University of Western Sydney{{cite web |url=http://virtualtours.uws.edu.au/uwsartcollection/art-by-year#1999 |title=Art by Year – Virtual Tours |website=virtualtours.uws.edu.au |access-date=2015-03-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150310112723/http://virtualtours.uws.edu.au/uwsartcollection/art-by-year#1999#1999 |archive-date=2015-03-10 |url-status=live }}
Awards
- 2001 Jackson Smith Sculpture Prize, Defiance Gallery, Sydney{{cite web |url=https://www.merrickfry.com/ |title=Merrick Fry |website=Merrick Fry |access-date=2018-12-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181129013329/https://www.merrickfry.com/ |archive-date=2018-11-29 |url-status=live }}
- 1985 Visual Arts Board Grant, New York Studio residency, USA
- 1979 Selected, George's Art Prize, Melbourne{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=B-dUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6pIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4962,4537958 |title=The Age – Google News Archive Search }}
- 1972 Mirror-Waratah Painting Prize, Sydney
- 1972 National Art School Drawing Prize, Sydney
Exhibitions
In 2015, Merrick Fry had a major exhibition – The Charmer's Picnic.Merrick Fry: The Charmer's Picnic, Hamilton Design Glass Blog, http://www.stainedglass.com.au/page/Merrick_Fry%3A_The_Charmer%27s_Picnic {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303071303/http://stainedglass.com.au/page/Merrick_Fry:_The_Charmer's_Picnic |date=3 March 2016 }}
Merrick Fry has had solo and group exhibitions including with Janet Dawson in Sydney in 2010{{cite web |url=http://www.merrickfry.com/gall0/merrick-fry-exhibitions0.htm |title=Coppola Dawson Fry (2010) |access-date=2015-01-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218035706/http://www.merrickfry.com/gall0/merrick-fry-exhibitions0.htm |archive-date=18 February 2015 |url-status=dead }} and they were exhibiting together in Goulbourn in 2015[http://www.grag.com.au/site/exhibition.php?id=97 JANET DAWSON with Merrick Fry – Their Everyday] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218035724/http://www.grag.com.au/site/exhibition.php?id=97 |date=18 February 2015 }} (6 February – 7 March 2015) In 1986, a critic wrote of Fry's work: "His surfaces of seemingly agitated linear activity gradually reveal a meaningful structure of the landscape."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
In August 2013, the Bathurst Regional Gallery hosted an extensive survey exhibition of Merrick Fry's artAUG1 Floor talk by Merrick Fry, Artist. https://www.facebook.com/events/302365816565769/