In the past, Lara Merrett has worked on the more traditionally understood notion of a canvas. While she enjoys the process employed working in this way, pouring, pooling and evaporating...
Lisa Byrne Melbourne 2007 One of the fundamentally enticing qualities of abstraction is its claim to otherness and its hold on nothing. Lara Merrett’s current body of work...
Amita Kirpalani 2014 When Lara Merrett describes “catching a painting”, she is in part describing the tarpaulin which flanks the four metre paintings of the main Karen...
Anna Johnson 2015 Less than a century ago major paintings were autographed in one corner and boxed within a gilded frame. Through time the painting would exchange hands and change...
