Merylyn Tweedie

Merylyn Tweedie (born 1953) is a multi-media artist from New Zealand. In 2004 she won the Walters Prize, New Zealand's largest contemporary art prize, and in 2003 her work was selected to represent New Zealand at the Venice Biennale.

Biography Tweedie was born in Christchurch in 1953 and attended Rangi Ruru Girls' School. She began exhibiting in 1975; initially she created and exhibited photographs, and later moved into collages, found objects and films. In 1992 Tweedie joined seven other artists (Kirsty Cameron, Judy Darragh, Gail Haffern, Giovanni Intra, Denise Kum, Lucy Macdonald and Daniel Malone) to open an artist-owned exhibition space in Vulcan Lane, Auckland, known as Teststrip, which ran until 1997.

The work which was selected for the 2005 Venice Biennale was created under the pseudonym et al., which presents itself as a collective of artists headed by Tweedie, but is in fact Tweedie herself.