“Please could you pass on our grateful thanks to Marcel, Susan, Chris and Paul – it was an absolute pleasure to work with them, they’re all delightful, and helped make everything run super smoothly.” Scope Awards 2025
“I’m Natalie Henderson I was at the concert (Lana Del Ray 2025) last night with my daughter and friends, being the only deaf adult, the interpreter ( 2 ladies) were absolutely incredible BSL signers !!! Just wow!!I couldn’t believe how fabulous they were with their expressions and made the song words come alive !! Give me goosebumps 🤣, I thanked them and we chatted for ages and I even did a video and did the consent form. Keep up this fantastic work you all do for our deaf community” Feedback about Susan Merrick and Karen Ward to Performance Interpreting from a happy customer!
Arts Council Award Recipient 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023
Susan’s practice is making an enormous ongoing contribution on many levels to the local creative ecology of Aldershot, and this kind of sustained work is essential to ensuring different cultural perspectives are heard and valued in the area.
Bridget Floyer, Artistic Director for Ashcroft Arts Centre, Forest Arts Centre and West End Centre. Hampshire Cultural Trust 2022.
We interviewed Susan regarding her art practice and target audience as she continues to strengthen bridging the gap between the artworld and the general public. Susan achieves this not only by incorporating her BSL but also by creating a safe place where individuals and groups can feel trust and open an exchange that is often impossible. Inclusion is at the core of her art practice through carefully thought out engagements and knowledge and experience with her target audience.
Ema Mano Epps, Platform One Gallery, Wandsworth Common 2021
Woman Up! Podcast with Amy Dignam
Woman Up! podcast – Curated by Susan Merrick in association with Desperate Art Wives and the Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths College, this podcast features the work of feminist practitioners who are mothers and women, including transgender women. Merrick interviews artists, curators, academics, writers, activists, midwives, carers and more.
Woman Up! Podcast included in the ICA Daily Newsletter 7/05/2020 by Nydia Swaby
Front Images: 1. Susan Merrick Interpreting at Bracknell Pride 2025 Image taken by Anna Bolton. 2. Susan Merrick (Left) Installing a lampost banner as part of the initial Conversations with Aldershot project with Candice Camacho (pictured). Photo taken by Daniel Cooke.
Background Image of Susan Merrick taken by Karen Ward Welch (BSL Interpreter)