MERRYN TRESIDDER
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From the rural peninsula of Kernow, Tresidder completed his Bachelors with honours, at the University of Westminster in Mixed Media Fine Art, London UK, before studying for his MFA at Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Mi’kma’ki. Often amassing in abstract diptychs and polyptychs, his work employs ideas of topography within minority languages, as a framework for decolonizing the vocabulary surrounding painting. Tresidder has dabbled with installation, print, film and curation, however his practice is centred in language and paint. His work investigates how colours are interpreted in local environs, and examines how devolving and de-Anglicizing colour palettes & theory, can give pigments a new context. 
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Awards:
2021  Arts Nova Scotia, Grants for Individuals
2019  Fund for Creative Excellence,  Reznick Family Scholarship 
           Graduate Scholarship Award, NSCAD
2018  Laurel Woodcock Scholarship
           Graduate Scholarship Award
           European Regional Development Grant, Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change
2009  Gorsedh Kernow, (The Cornish Gorseth): Best Photograph

Bibliography:
Glas; Alfred Wallis' New Plastic Perspective
, NSCAD Library, May 2020 
Venice, Kassle, Cornwall, Self publicised reflections, Aug 2018
Pathways Exhibition Review, Ambiko, Nov 2024

Acquisitions:
Art Bank Nova Scotia, 2022
Antonio de la Hera,  2010
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Selected Publications [Links]:
Olivia Malley, Salt Wire News, Aug 2021
Adam MacInnis, The Chronicle Herald, Article, Oct 2020
Sage Sidley, Featured MFA, NSCAD MFA Blog, Interview, Feb 2020
Christiana Myers, Canadian Art,  News article, Mar 2019 
Rhisiart Tablebot, League of Celtic Nations 'Carn' Magazine, Issue 169, Interview, Dec 2017
Alice Mahoney & Fred Vittie, Everything's F**ked, Exhibition Catalogue, Feb 2017 
Alice Mahoney, Inland Art Festival, Featured Artist, Oct 2016
Rachel Coward, Tate Gallery St Ives, Tate Collective Series, Feb 2016 
Natalie Lauren Brown, Midsummer Nights: Studio Snoop, Interview, Mar  2015 


Exhibtion Links:
https://www.saltwire.com/pictou-county
https://www.invernessarts.com/woodland
http://artmur.com/en/exhibitions/2019-exhibitions/
https://www.invernessarts.com/events/
https://www.thecoast.ca/RealityBites/
https://nscad.ca/mfa2018/
http://www.parallaxaf.net
http://www.artcornwall.org/exhibitions
https://www.krowji.org.uk/everything-is-fked/
http://goldentree.org.uk/
http://cmr-projectspace.com/transit-mk-ii.html
http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/Cast-ing
https://www.saatchiart.com/art-collection/Painting/New-Sensations
https://gorsedhkernow.org.uk/


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