Anouk Mercier

Anouk Mercier’s practice combines references to 17th and 18th Century landscape etchings, hand tinted Victorian photographs and postcards of alpine hotels with her own delicate mark making to create new, ‘collaged’ landscapes and scenes. Influenced by Romanticism and the Sublime these melancholic worlds, undefined by time or space, merge references to the past with futuristic propositions. They present, in doing so, the timeless yearning for escapism through the portrayal of a fragmented, yet beautiful ideal, whilst also exploring the mysterious, the abysmal and the uncanny that often lurks behind idylls.

Mercier has shown her work in a number of exhibitions throughout the United Kingdom and Europe, including Antlers Gallery, Bristol, La Galerie, Clamecy, France, Willis Museum, Basingstoke, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, and London Art Fair Art Projects, Antlers gallery, London, among others. In 2009 she held a residency at The Berlin Office, Berlin, and in 2011 she was awarded the “Emerging Artist Award” by ART Magazine.

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