Works | Mererid Velios

Sisyphean

'Parlour' by Tina Carr and Annemarie Schone

2019

This installation was created for the 'Interior Monologues' show at Oriel y Bont. Each contributing artist was asked to respond to a work in the permanent art collection of the University of South Wales and I chose 'Parlour' by Tina Carr and Annemarie Schone. But I found I couldn't respond to the image in terms of its interior design, rather I imagined various scenarios to explain why it had been abandoned. This led me to think about geographic inequality in the UK, generational inequality, the housing crisis and the benefits system.

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"All in this together"

All in this together (detail) - Mererid Velios

All in this together (wallpaper detail) - Mererid Velios

2018

Taking inspiration from an innovative council estate built in 1949 (the Spa Green Estate by Berthold Lubetkin) this work examines the fate of many social housing schemes, where tenants have been displaced by private owners or middle-class renters. Renovation of a building followed by a 'renovation' of its inhabitants? All in the best possible taste.

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Three hundred and twenty whites on a north-east facing wall

2018

A bewildering array of whites confronts the viewer in this work, accompanied by a soundtrack of paint names endlessly repeated. The work makes reference to the designer paint colour chart and playfully explores the meaning and value of names, the importance of context for meaning, and the manipulation of consumers.

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Whites colour chart

2018

A prototype of this work was made as part of the 'Thoroughbred' installation. This is a limited edition of 11. Each work is numbered and is accompanied by a signed certificate by the artist.
Hand-painted emulsion paint swatches on digitally printed card.
20.9 x 29.8cm

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Thoroughbred

2017

The photographs of fashionable and stylish interiors in magazines, blogs and websites that we aspire to, were the starting point for this work. We aspire to homes like these and yet these photographed interiors have been carefully manipulated and styled and are no more real than the airbrushed models in fashion magazines. Viewing the images as a façade I imagined them hiding common social problems such as addiction, depression or debt. I wanted to subvert these aspirational images in some way, to uncover the veil of respectability and status.

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