Merzbarn Residency in Cumbria
Slade graduate students have been pioneering one-week residencies at Kurt Schwitters' Merzbarn in Cumbria funded by the Slade Project Award Fund and organized by Professor Edward Allington, Head of Graduate Sculpture.
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Photograph from Merz Barn residency, May 2010.
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Slade Students at Merz Barn, Cumbria, 2007
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Slade graduate students have been pioneering one-week residencies at Kurt Schwitters' Merzbarn in Cumbria funded by the Slade Project Award Fund and organized by Professor Edward Allington, Head of Graduate Sculpture.
Kurt Schwitters rented a small farm shed on Cylinders Farm in Langdale to use as his studio in 1946. There, Schwitters began to construct Merzbarn using found materials and a construction technique invented for his two earlier 'Merz" installations.