Curriculum Vitae
MERRYN LLOYD
born in Melbourne, Australia
living and working in Canberra, Australia
Merryn Lloyd works with beeswax and pigments to create paintings through a process of accretion, building up, mixing, reworking and scratching back into the textural surfaces of her works. Melting and mixing are the main concerns of her studio practice, with her resulting paintings acting as a record-keeping tool. Often it is her failed paintings that end up being her greatest successes. Her inspiration is drawn from the landscape, and her paintings are frequently titled with idioms and phrases that have visceral and sensory associations. The considered groupings of her small works invite further readings, where paintings act as counterpoints to each other, providing juxtapositions of composition, texture, and colour.
Lloyd is a co-founder of Moon-Unit, an independent artist collective, was awarded an Australians Studying Abroad scholarship for travel to Prato in Italy (2007) and has a Bachelor of Visual Art (Painting), from Monash University (2008). Her work is held in private collections in Australia and New Zealand.
Education
2008 Bachelor of Visual Art (Painting), Monash University
2007 Semester Abroad, Prato, Italy with Australians Studying Abroad and Monash University
Solo exhibitions
2017 Hot Mess Paintings, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2017 Invisible Labour, Tributary Projects, Canberra
2016 Dusty Plain, Paulnache, Gisborne, New Zealand
2015 Chalk and Cheese, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, Melbourne
2014 Oil on a Spoon, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
2014 Material, edition 5, edited by John Nixon and Danny Lacy
2011 Slide, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2010 Sample Window, curated by Patrice Sharkey, Platform Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2008 The Beginning of Something New, Count Six Student Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
Group exhibitions
2018 Winter Blues, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2018 Heavy, Chamber Presents, Melbourne
2017 In Common, collaboration with Kirsten Perry, Guild of Objects, Melbourne
2017 What's Happening Here? Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn, Melbourne
2016 Caves Fundraiser, Caves, Melbourne
2016 The Veranda Archibald, curated by Clementine Edwards and Esther Stewart, Melbourne
2016 Painting Matter, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2016 Caves off site, curated by Storm Gold and Kez Hughes, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland, Melbourne
2016 West Space Annual Fundraiser, West Space, Melbourne
2015 Utopian Slumps, Three Thousand Apartment, Melbourne
2015 West Space Annual Fundraiser, West Space, Melbourne
2015 TBC Fundraiser, TCB Inc., Melbourne
2015 Cave Painting, Caves, Melbourne
2015 Faux Fair, curated by Kim Brockett, c3, Melbourne
2014 Fin, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
2014 A Necessary Evil, curated by Dioni Salas, Kings ARI, Melbourne
2014 Movements, curated by Justin Hinder and Eleanor Butt, c3, Melbourne
2014 West Space Annual Fundraiser, West Space, Melbourne
2014 Pavilion, curated by David Homewood, TCB, Melbourne
2014 Das Boot Fair, curated by Esther Stewart & Oscar Perry, 2014 Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
2013 Method and Gesture, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
2013 Soft Eyes, curated by Pip Wallis, TCB, Melbourne
2013 painting/sculpture/floor work/wall work, Stockroom, Kyneton, Victoria
2012 Poetic Forms, Access Gallery, Bundoora Homstead Art Centre, Melbourne
2012 Seventh Super Sell Out Show, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
2012 Platform Fundraising Exhibition, Platform Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2012 Model Home by Madeline Kidd, un Magazine, issue 6.1, edited by Lisa Radford and Liang Luscombe
2011 Merryn then Renee, Platform Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
2010 Abstract Now, curated by Danny Lacy, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria
2010 Falls Creek Artists Camp, curated by David H Thomas, Falls Creek, Victoria
2010 Whole Pieces, curated by Pip Wallis, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Merryn Lloyd / Renee Cosgrave, The Narrows, Melbourne
2009 Fundraiser, The Narrows, Melbourne
2008 Monash University Graduate Exhibition, Monash University, Melbourne
2008 Using Pink Sporadically, Runt Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
2008 Is it the beginning or the end? 3rd Year Painting Students Draw, curated by Marriane Coutts, Runt Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
2007 Repeat (Repeat), curated by Kent Wilson, Runt Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
Collaborations with Renee Cosgrave
2016 The Hunch, curated by Boe-Lin Bastin, Incinerator Art Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Window Painting 2, Cecelia Fox, Melbourne
2013 Window Painting, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2008 Print Workshop, curated by Warren Taylor, The Narrows, Melbourne
2008 Kuwaii pop-up, Penthouse Mouse, Melbourne Fashion Week, Melbourne
2007 The Narrows Window, the Narrows, Melbourne
2007 Guadare Impare (To look, to learn), Monash University, Prato, Italy
2007 Open Day at Monash University, with Dom Sowersby and Sam Martin, Monash University, Melbourne
2007 Good Ambiguity vs. Bad Ambiguity, Runt Space, Monash University, Melbourne
Curated projects
2016 Art Exhibition/House Warming, Narrabundah, Canberra
2014 Nine Painting Presentation, part 5 of Incidents Above a Bar, the Alderman, Melbourne
Bibliography
Tai Snaith, Art Attack, RRR 102.7FM, 30 June 2016
Boe-Lin Bastin, ‘The Hunch’ (catalogue essay), August 2016
‘Melbourne painters Gisborne bound…’, The Gisborne Herald, Thursday Jan 7, 2016, p. 20
Dan Rule, ‘Forecast: Merryn Lloyd’, Vault Magazine, Issue 10, July 2015
Steven Rendall & Lisa Young, ‘Groupgrope: improvisation?’ (catalogue essay), 2015
Dan Rule, ‘Merryn Lloyd: Chalk and Cheese’, In the galleries, The Age, January 30, 2015
Dan Rule, 'Method and Gesture', Your weekend: In the galleries, November 30, 2013
Kent Wilson, 'Renee Cosgrave and Merryn Lloyd, Aug 2013', The SubMachine, August 23, 2013
'Painting the campus red (and pink, green, blue, yellow…)', Monash University News, July 22, 2013
Kent Wilson, 'Exhibition Essay, painting / sculpture / wall work / floor work’, May 8, 2013
Dan Rule, 'Poetic Forms', Your weekend: In the galleries, January 19, 2013
Kent Wilson, 'Poetic Forms, Jan 2013', The SubMachine, January 14, 2013
Artists' pages, un Magazine, issue 6.1, edited by Lisa Radford and Liang Luscombe, 2012
Pip Wallis, 'Whole Pieces' (catalogue essay), May 2010
Caroline Clements, 'Narrow Intersection', The Blackmail, March 2010
Dan Rule, 'Renee Cosgrave & Merryn Lloyd at The Narrows', Around the galleries, The Age, A2, February 13, 2010
Collections
Private collections in Australia and New Zealand