Merthyr Ruxton

Merthyr Ruxton completed a Diploma of Visual Communications in Wellington in 1975, studying graphics, print-making, photography and life drawing. In 1976 and 1977 she worked as a freelance illustrator in Europe. She continued to create works on paper, mainly in gouache, and to work on ceramics, with an informal exhibition at the New Zealand Embassy in Santiago, Chile. She has exhibited extensively across Auckland in both a solo and collaboration capacity. Her work is abstract and gestural in nature and the medium she currently uses is oil paint on gesso on board.

Awards
Shortlisted for the Parkin Drawing Prize - 2018
Shortlisted for the Parkin Drawing Prize – 2019
Shortlisted for the Parkin Drawing Prize – 2020
Shortlisted NZPPA award - 2020
Shortlisted National Contemporary Art Award 2022