Merle Addison is a graduate of the Experimental Arts Department at the Ontario College of Art and Design (1982). He received his education there but has been making things as long as he can remember. As a child, Addison thought the best job would be a TV news anchor or announcer, because they worked 15-minutes a day and got to keep the pencils and paper.
Merle is best known as a photographer, and has worked with grunt gallery as the performance art photographer since grunt was founded in 1984. His personal work utilizes a variety of mediums, anything that you can use to make a scribble, from photography to a pencil on paper.