The Merz Barn project is run by Littoral Arts Trust.
The LITTORAL Trust is an artist-led arts research and development agency based in the NW of England. It is a registered charity and also an Arts Council England RFO. Registered Charity, No. 1002365.
More information about the LITTORAL Trustees, and the organisation’s aims and objectives and other arts programmes can be found on the website.
Ian Hunter and Celia Larner, Littoral Directors, in the Merz Launch, autumn 2006, celebrating the purchase of Cylinders and the Merz Barn
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- Ian Hunter, Director
- Celia Larner, Director
- David Joddrell, Site Manager
- Pat Smith, Education Worker (part time)
- Tristan Spill, Web Consultant
Advisors (Restoration of the Merz Barn)
- Andrew Shepherd, (Heritage Restoration, The Architectural Association)
- Adam Lowe, Conservation (Director, Factum Arte, Madrid)
- Derek Pullen (Head of Sculpture Conservation, Tate Britain)
Advisors (Academic Programmes)
- Dr Dorothea Dietrich
- Dr Gwendolen Webster
- Dr Karin Orchard (Sprengel Museum, Hanover)
- Dr Jarle Sanden (Romsdalsmuseet, Norway)
- Dr Sarah Wilson (Reader/Head of Modern Art, Courtauld Institute of Art)
- Adrian Glew (Curator of Archives Tate Britain)
- Dr Iabel Schulz (Director of the Kurt and Ernst Schwitters Foundation)
- Mel Gooding (curator and art writer, London)
- Dr. John Elderfield (New York)
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