Something & Son (Andy Merritt & Paul Smyth) work explores social and environmental issues via everyday scenarios criss-crossing the boundaries between the visual arts, architecture and activism. Through permanent installations, functional sculptures and public performance, works provide a framework or foundation for communities and ecologies to build upon. Projects often include economic models which underpin their long term future. The structures and interactions of the works typically mimic the everyday to act as a familiar starting point to then take the subject into new realms.

Exhibitions include a solo show at Tate Britain; Tate Modern; V&A Museum; Manchester International Festival; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; Artangel; Milan Design Week, Italy; Cultural Olympia; Somerset House Trust; Folkestone Art Triennial, UK; Arts Catalyst; Deon Foundation, The Netherlands; The Design Museum, London; MAK/Vienna Biennale, Austria; Kinsale Arts Festival, Ireland; Arts Council Wales; South London Gallery,; the Wellcome Collection, UK; and Istanbul Design Biennial, Turkey.

They have given have talks and workshops at the Serpentine Gallery, Kunst-Werke, Berlin; the Science Museum, London; SALT, Istanbul; Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, Zurich; CIT, Ireland; Design Museum, London; Royal College of Art, London; Central Saint Martins, London; Riga Technical University, Latvia; Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, Design Indaba, Cape Town; British Council, ICA, London; The World Around, New York; OCAT, Shenzhen; the Barbican, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. They have been in residence at Royal Botanical Gardens Kew and Andy was on the Delfina Foundations Politics of Food programme.

Andy and Paul are co-founders of Makerversity, Somerset House and Mission Kitchen, New Covent Garden. Something & Son are part of Somerset House Studios.

Andy has taught at UAL, London Metropolitan University and Royal College of Art.

Contact:
someone@somethingandson.com

Makerversity
Somerset House
Lancaster Place
London
WC2R 1LA

Current and past Something & Son team include: Fran Rausa, Tracey Suen, Hazel Durrant, Abdul Elias, Farouk Agoro, Konstantina Panagiotidou, Chris Lumsden, Sam Collins, Anne Thomas, Simon Petty.