I would like to acknowledge the Dja Dja Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners of the country that I have the privilege to live and work upon and recognise their continuing connection to the land, the waters and culture. I pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
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Hermione Merry is a Castlemaine based video and installation artist. Previously working with German born, Castlemaine 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 has previously worked 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).
Most recently Hermione has collaborated with Castlemaine artist Helen Martin and created a three-channel video installation as a digital commission for Castlemaine State Festival 2021 There is No Shame in Delight. Their video installation work Love Me Tender was presented at the 2021 Castlemaine Fringe Festival. Their collaboration continues.
As a video artist Hermione is currently in development for the David Gagliardi Composition Everyone Goes to Heaven in the Clothes They Died in (To be presented at Ulumbarra Theatre May 2022) and for the theatre work Screens Directed by Chris Kohn and produced by Bureau of Works.
Hermione was a participant in Regional Arts Victoria’s Creative Workers in Schools Program 2021 and was in residence at Castlemaine Secondary College Etty Street Campus. Their video, sound and sculpture installation The Rift is being presented in November 2021. Hermione is currently working with Castlemaine Secondary College educators to develop a similar long term artist in residence program for the students at Etty Street Campus.
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.
B I O
Hermione Merry is a Castlemaine based video and installation artist. Previously working with German born, Castlemaine 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 has previously worked 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).
Most recently Hermione has collaborated with Castlemaine artist Helen Martin and created a three-channel video installation as a digital commission for Castlemaine State Festival 2021 There is No Shame in Delight. Their video installation work Love Me Tender was presented at the 2021 Castlemaine Fringe Festival. Their collaboration continues.
As a video artist Hermione is currently in development for the David Gagliardi Composition Everyone Goes to Heaven in the Clothes They Died in (To be presented at Ulumbarra Theatre May 2022) and for the theatre work Screens Directed by Chris Kohn and produced by Bureau of Works.
Hermione was a participant in Regional Arts Victoria’s Creative Workers in Schools Program 2021 and was in residence at Castlemaine Secondary College Etty Street Campus. Their video, sound and sculpture installation The Rift is being presented in November 2021. Hermione is currently working with Castlemaine Secondary College educators to develop a similar long term artist in residence program for the students at Etty Street Campus.
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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