Merrett Keech

visual artists
Written By Angela Hoskins

Introducing the art and artists of Coochiemudlo

Merrett Keech All is well ... Acrylic on Canvas, 78 x 52 cm. (Photo by Peter Wear)

Growing up in Cleveland and now living on island, Merrett Keech draws inspiration from her long engagement with bay island life.  This experience finds expression in her palette of earth and blue, her deeply felt images and advocacy for life and growth between sand and water, and her use of found materials such as ferry rope, crab shell and cuttlefish bones.

Arts and crafts, creating, problem solving and design, have always been a central focus in Merretts’ life, directing her to develop passion, skills and experience through university, a career in art education, and her own arts practice. Often working on several projects at once, Merrett enjoys the challenge of responding directly to the materials and issues immediate to hand and heart, maintaining creative dialogue in the play one project against another.

As an active member of the Coochiemudlo Artisans Collective, Merretts’ work can be seen represented at the island’s galleries. 

Curlew Artisan Gallery and Ross Street Gallery on Coochiemudlo Island open 10am – 2pm, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Angela Hoskins

Built my first site in 2000 and steadily learned what it takes to make websites work. Dabbled in WordPress back then, still do. Since building my first Squarespace site in 2016, I’ve been impressed with the relatively streamlined approach to website design and development that Squarespace offers compared to WordPress. SEO was a major challenge from the start — I’ve spent a lot of time keeping up with what’s required to get sites working, ranking well on a SERP. I have confidence with what Squarespace offers for SEO.

Having worked for more than 10 years in the web team of an inland, regional university in Australia and dealing with frustrations that come with working for a large corporate enterprise, the idea of setting up my own web design business became my goal.

Set up my business in late 2017. Opted for a sea change, too: I now live on Coochiemudlo Island 45 minutes from Brisbane. Love working from home. Love working for small business clients. Still get casual work with the university.

Challenges? The main one is pricing my work for small businesses. Doing quality work, doing the research to be up to date in the industry, takes time; it’s hard to factor in this time to my pricing while being competitive in the market and affordable for many small businesses.

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