Still Ane Mair

Still Ane Mair is the solo exhibition of artist Marly Merle, a Scottish multidisciplinary artist who was the recipient of the Freelands Studio Fellowship 2025 at Bath Spa University. The exhibition acts as something of a sequel to her previous exhibition, Ane After Anither.

Merle is a sculptor and printmaker whose practice moves between architectural and bodily landscapes. She builds hybrid forms that sit between object, body and structure, drawing on fragments of the everyday, including garments, furniture and found materials. She studied Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee (2022) and is currently based in Bristol at Mivart Studios.

Still Ane Mair develops fragments of found typography into reconfigured symbols which are translated into a mix of sculptures, prints and installations that operate as glyphs. Through reconstructing and reworking different materials, spanning from resin, plexiglass and metal, she creates a texturally and materially rich and diverse set of glyphs that are named in the Scots language.

The ethos of taking what’s found is prevalent in both form and content. As the title Still Ane Mair (Still One More) suggests, the exhibition centres on continuation rather than conclusion, speaking to the endless progression of language itself and mirroring its constantly shifting form and rhythm.

Across this process, legibility is gradually displaced, language becomes structure, rhythm and residue. The works hold a tension between recognition and dissolution, where meaning is never fully secured but continually shifting.