HERMIONE MERRY
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  • WORKS
    • FRAMES OF SEEING - STERNENGUCKER
    • A SONG FOR THE STAGE, THE CAPTIVES AND THE LINE OF PRODUCTION
    • STERNENGUCKER
    • HH
    • HEAVEN::HIMMEL
    • THE WHITE HOTEL
    • PALACE OF TEARS
    • THE SOMNAMBULIST
    • NOCTURNE: FORGOTTEN
    • NOCTURNE: ALONE
    • RAWCUS
  • About
    • BIO
    • PRESS
  • Contact

B I O

Hermione Merry is a Castlemaine based video and installation artist. Working frequently with German born, Melbourne based artist and performer, Henriette Kassay-Schuster, the pair have exhibited locally (Bus Projects, Anna Pappas, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, the Substation), nationally (Metro Arts, Brisbane) and internationally (Takt Kunstraum, Berlin). Their work hh was presented as part of the 2013 Linden Centre for COntemporary Art's Innovator's Program, and selected for the Substation Contemporary Art Prize. Heaven::himmel was exhibited as part of the 2013 Under the Radar Program in Brisbane Festival. Most recently their work Song for the Stage, the Captives & the Line of Production funded by the Australia Council for the Arts was exhibited at Counihan Gallery and shortlisted for the 2015 FACT (London) and Channels video art Award.

Working with filmmaker Nicholas Verso as MerryVerso, Hermione collaborated with boys in remand at the Parkville Juvenile Justice Centre and boys through Signal Arts to create Nocturne: Forgotten (Signal 2011). The pair also created a hybrid installation for Yarra Ranges Council Nocturne: Alone (2011).

Hermione frequently works as a guest artist with Rawcus Theatre creating a film Imagine Me There (2012), a performance and film Multiverse (with Amplified Elephants for Melbourne Festival 2013) and Portraits (2015). 

Hermione is currently in development for a two screen video commission There is No Shame in Delight for Castlemaine State Festival with artist Helen Mathwin. As a video artist Hermione is currently in development for the David Gagliardi Composition  Everyone Goes to Heaven in the Clothes They Died in and for the theatre work Screens Directed by Chris Kohn and produced by Bureau of Works.

Before her practice as an artist Hermione worked in the Film and Television Industry, as a Director, Art Director and Production Designer, as well as a performer in the theatre. Hermione studied at Victorian College of the Arts - Creative Arts Bachelor, Victorian College of the Arts School of Film & Television - Postgraduate Diploma and Latrobe University - Diploma of Secondary Education.
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