mererid's blog

Interior Monologues

mererid — Thu, 16 May 2019 22:13:25 +0000

A group show at Oriel y Bont with many layers to it. Contributing artists responded to an artwork in the Art Collection of the University of South Wales. They also needed to provide at least 4 pages of artwork for an A5 zine to go with the show. Creative writers were assigned to each artist and wrote something in response to both the new and old work. At the exhibition opening each writer read their piece of writing. Hearing Maria Lalic read the text she wrote in response to my work and our conversations via email was a highlight for me.

Copies of the zine may still be available from Oriel y Bont.

K Bloc - MA Final Show

mererid — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 09:35:06 +0000

MA ARTS PRACTICE (FINE ART and ARTS IN HEALTH & WELLBEING) FINAL SHOW

Launch event - Friday 14th September 5pm - 8pm
(show continues daily 10am - 4pm until 19th Sept.)

Kidwelly Building, University of South Wales, Treforest Campus, CF37 1DL

I will be one of 11 artists presenting their final MA show at K Bloc this September. Amongst paintings and mixed media work expect to find a meadow, a laboratory, a forest clearing and dystopian shop. Issues engaged with include loss, healing, privacy in the information age, social class and taste.

Exhibiting artists:
Nichola Goff
Kate Hearnden
Miira Hyvonen
Nick Jenkins
Rachel Jones
Lucille Junkere
Rebecca Lewis
Sarah Stebbing
Zoe Louise Ridgway
Mererid Velios
Amber Jay Williams

All welcome to the opening on the 14th and I will be invigilating on the 15th. Hope to see you there!

Fringe Arts Bath

mererid — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 20:02:00 +0000

I visited Bath on Sunday on the last day of Fringe Arts Bath. LOL = Lexicon of Lust was just one of many exhibitions and I particularly enjoyed Biography in Cloth, and #getoutofyourcar at FAB@Milsom Place.

'The greatest dilemma of all time' - now open

mererid — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 21:30:54 +0000

The exhibition is now open at Art in the Attic and will be shown until June 15th.
These photos give you a sense of the space and the work but without the sound. The long wall-based work is accompanied by a sound work of a voice reciting the 320 paint colour names on a loop.

Introduction text:
THE GREATEST DILEMMA OF ALL TIME

Mererid Velios’s exhibition is a playful, quietly subversive exploration of the designer paint colour chart and what paint companies’ marketing strategies reveals about our society today.

Fascinated by the lure of interior design and our obsession with it, in this exhibition Velios focuses on the designer paint colour chart and how we are influenced to choose one colour over another. Is it purely an aesthetic choice, comparing one colour to another, or do the names affect our choice? The names are not merely descriptive but give colours their own character and identity; they appeal to our desire to improve our social status, e.g. Knightsbridge fog rather than Gorbals mist.

There is an obsession with white paint in interior design; a disproportionate number of colours on paint cards are a version of white. Fear of colour or fear of making a wrong colour choice leads consumers to choose the ‘safety’ of white. However, few if any of the colours called 'white’ on a paint chart are a 'pure’ white. Tints, tones, and shades are marketed as white, which brings us back to the dilemma of how to choose and the influencing strategies of paint companies.

LoL = Lexicon of Lust

mererid — Tue, 22 May 2018 12:38:45 +0000

One of my works, 'Whites colour chart', was accepted into this exhibition for Fringe arts Bath, opening this Friday evening. Since the work has proved popular I decided to make a limited edition of 11.

This was the callout/description of the exhibition:
LoL = Lexicon of Lust
In Art we feel that meaning has become meaningless. Or do we - perhaps we don't mean that? We welcome work that is playful, ambiguous, theatrical, dystopian, humorous, contrarian and perhaps even alludes to the figurative. A good title will go a long way. No paintings, drawings or performances thank you - just 'things' that we can 'lust' over.

Where: FaB 1, 94-96 Walcot Street, Bath BA1 5BG
Launch: 25 May open 6pm 'til late - #FaB18 Opening Night Arty Party
When: 10am to 6pm daily - 26 May to 10 June

https://www.fringeartsbath.co.uk/2018-exhibitions/

MA Show reveal

mererid — Fri, 11 May 2018 12:00:01 +0000

The MA show launch event was a great success - thank you to all who came to support us!

The greatest dilemma of all time

mererid — Tue, 01 May 2018 17:46:41 +0000

Following my MA show at the West Wharf Gallery I will be showing more of my MA work at Art in the Attic. This will include the installation from the West Wharf Gallery but presented slightly differently to accommodate the space, as well as other supporting work.

I will leave a comments book in the exhibition, so if you have time to visit please let me know what you think!

MA Show - Makers Dozen

mererid — Tue, 01 May 2018 14:01:16 +0000

Our second MA show opens on Thursday 10th May at the West Wharf Gallery in Cardiff. I will be installing on the 3rd/4th May and will upload photos once it's all in.

NN Contemporary Arts - opening

mererid — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 15:55:39 +0000

On Friday 12th January I travelled to Northampton for the private view of the Northampton Arts Open show. It was really exciting to see my work 'Whites Colour Card' in the context of a group show and it was a well attended evening and had a lovely welcoming atmosphere.

Upcoming exhibitions

mererid — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 21:50:07 +0000

Open Exhibition 2018 Contemporary Art Northampton
Date: 13 January–17 March 2018
http://www.nncontemporaryart.org/exhibitions/open-exhibition-2018/

One of my works - Whites Colour Card - has been selected for this biennial show.

Art in the Attic, Porth
Date: 28th May - 15th June 2018

Solo show of my recent MA work.