Robert Meyrick

Head of School and Keeper of Art
BA (Wales) MA (Wales) Hon RE Photograph of Robert Meyrick.

Contact

Email: robert.meyrick@aber.ac.uk
Phone: 01970 622464
Personal Web Site:http://www.robertmeyrick.co.uk/

Biography

Robert Meyrick trained in fine art and art history and now writes on the history of printmaking, art and visual culture of Wales, 20th-century British art, and collecting practice.  This is reflected in his contribution to teaching at Aberystwyth and in his development of the University’s print collection.  In 2001 he was invited to become an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in ‘recognition of his services to the art of printmaking in Britain’.  He has curated national touring exhibitions and written accompanying publications for leading provincial museums and private art galleries in the UK.

Meyrick is regularly invited to contribute chapters for books and catalogues, among them ‘Beyond Impressionism’ (2006) and ‘Wealth Wise and Culture Kind’ (2007) for National Museum Wales, ‘In Pursuit of Arcadia’ for Pallant House, Chichester (2007), and ‘Little Englandism’ in Ancient Landscapes, Pastoral Visions for Southampton Art Gallery. He was advisor-contributor-author for the National Museum Wales centenary exhibition, Industry to Impressionism (2007).  His monographs include The Etchings and Engravings of Edgar Holloway (1996) and John Elwyn (Ashgate, 2000).

Since 1998 he has served on the Editorial Board of Gregynog Press and is advisor in the compilation of The Dictionary of Welsh Biography 1971-2000.  As his Catalogue Raisonné of Prints by Joseph Webb nears completion, he is soon to research and curate a major retrospective exhibition of paintings by Christopher Williams (1873-1934) for the National Library of Wales and National Museum Wales (2012). Other projects include an invited book chapter for Readings in Victorian Illustration (Ashgate, 2011) and an exhibition of prints by Sydney Lee RA RE RWS (1866-1949) for the Royal Academy of Arts, London (Summer, 2012) with an accompanying book published by RA Publications.

Teaching and research supervision covers Fine Art (illustration and printmaking) and Art History (British printmaking since 1900, book illustration, the private presses, art in Wales, 19th- to mid 20th-century British Art, collecting practice, and material held in the School of Art collections).