Julie Merriman (b. 1963)

Julie Merriman lives and works in Dublin. Her practice is centred in the history and meaning of visual marks, in the lexis used to visually describe structure, place, concept and theory. Working from archival materials she researches histories, and through conversational exchange explores the conventions of various drawing languages. Her investigations are positioned in the historic and contemporary aspects of areas such as; architecture, engineering, science, cartography and mathematics and in how drawing works in these contexts as a technology to impart specific information. However the focus of her work is on the changes that are perceived when her creative process interrupts the functionality of these visual languages, and in the potentials of new readings to emerge.