Merylyn Tweedie New Zealand, 1953-.
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About Merylyn Tweedie
Merylyn Tweedie was born in Christchurch in 1953 and began exhibiting in 1975, initially creating and exhibiting photographs, before moving on to collage, found objects and film. In 1992 Tweedie joined seven other artists to open an artist-owned exhibition space in Vulcan Lane, Auckland, known as Teststrip, which ran until 1997. In 2004 she won the Walters Prize, New Zealand's highest award for contemporary art, and in 2003 her work was selected to represent New Zealand at the Venice Biennale. The work selected for the 2003 Venice Biennale was created under the pseudonym "et al", which presents itself as a collective of artists led by Tweedie, but is in fact Tweedie herself. The installation, understood as a fundamental practice, uses sound, computers and mechanical devices and was designed to question the way people consume information and the power structures of the media in our societies. Tweedie's work is in the collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the Christchurch Art Gallery and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
The total number of works by Merylyn Tweedie offered for sale by auction since 1998 is 33, of which 20 (61%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $2,826 for The Hour Has Its Total Equivalents Through a Mirror sold by Art+Object in March 2017. This year one work has been offered for sale. Works by Merylyn Tweedie are held by the Christchurch Art Gallery.
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