Merrick Belyea b. 1969

  • Artist (Painter)
Contemporary painter born in Perth, WA, in 1969. Belyea, known for his haunting paintings, began exhibiting in 1989.
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Born in 1969 in Perth, Western Australia, Merrick Belyea studied Fine Arts at the Claremont School of Art, graduating in 1989.

Belyea, known for his haunting paintings, began exhibiting in 1989. In 2001 he was awarded an Artflight grant and in 1999 he won the Centennial Art Award from the Fire and Rescue Service of Western Australia.

Belyea has been commissioned to do works for public spaces, including a bus stop at Mundaring Arts Centre, a children’s mural at Warwick Commercial Park, as well as a work titled Tower at Parkerville Walk Trail, all in Western Australia.

Belyea’s work is represented in the collections of the City of Freemantle, Bank West, FESA, Artbank, Mundaring Shire, City of Joondalup, City of Wanneroo, AM International, Royal Perth Hospital, Holmes a Court Collection and the Australian Republican Movement.

Writers:
Stella Downer
Date written:
2007
Last updated:
2011

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Related stub person groups
  • Stella Downer Fine Art (associate of)
Related works
  • From Above the City is a Target (creator of)
  • Tower (creator of)
Related collections
  • untitled (collected in)
  • Holmes a Court Collection, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • AM International, Calabria, Italy (collected in)
  • City of Wanneroo, WA (collected in)
  • City of Joondalup, WA (collected in)
  • Mundaring Shire, Mundaring, WA (collected in)
  • Artbank, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Australian Republican Movement, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • The Fire and Emergency Services Authority, WA (collected in)
  • Bank West (collected in)
  • City of Freemantle, Freemantle, WA (collected in)
Related recognitions
  • Centennial Art Award Fire & Rescue Service of WA, Development Grant, Arts WA (received)
  • Artflight, Arts WA (received)
Related events
  • Solo Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Solo Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Monday! (exhibited at)
  • Solo Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Fire (exhibited at)
  • Sex & Death & Colonisation (exhibited at)
  • Soft Cell (exhibited at)
  • One Night Only (exhibited at)
  • Life Before Death (exhibited at)
  • Fear of Falling (exhibited at)
  • Burning House (exhibited at)
  • Paint (exhibited at)
  • New Work (exhibited at)