Merryn Trevethan
Australia
Merryn Trevethan is an Australian artist currently based in Hong Kong, relocating in February 2021 after 7 years in Singapore. Her abstracted, hyper- saturated artworks are inspired by the constantly changing structure of cities. Through her paintings, spatial wall-drawings and murals, objects, and large-scale installation works she considers the uncertainties of human perception; examining how we how we see, navigate, record and relate experiences of negotiating space in public, urban environments.
Merryn graduated with an Masters of Fine Arts from Monash University, Melbourne (2005). Recent mural commissions include Esc Café in Causeway Bay, HK (2023), 637 Flinders St workplace, Melbourne, AU (2024) and a site-specific mural for the Australian Theatre for Young People at Pier 2, Sydney Harbour (2022). Recent exhibitions include Postmodern Tales at H Queens, Hong Kong, Superhuman Expedition, at Arthub Studios, London, UK and a collaborative exhibition with Sebastian Mary Tay at Comma Space, Singapore (2023). She was one of ten artists (and co-curator) of Bus.Stop.Art public art project, commissioned by National Arts Council for Singapore Art Week 2021. In 2018, Merryn was a fellow of the Sam and Adele Golden Art Foundation Residency Program, New York (2018). She has held solo and group exhibitions in Australia, Singapore, USA and Hong Kong and China.
