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Merlin James

Merlin James — Merlin James studied at Royal College of Art and Central School of Art and Design. The recorded working language is English. Places of work recorded in the authority are Glasgow.

Identity and overview

Work by Merlin James is recorded in the collections of Tate, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Dallas Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and National Museum Cardiff. Institutional cataloguing adds that merlin James was born in 1960 at Cardiff. Merlin James was recorded as artist, painter and writer.

Merlin James studied at Royal College of Art and Central School of Art and Design. The recorded working language is English.

Places of work recorded in the authority are Glasgow.

Work by Merlin James is recorded in the collections of Tate, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Dallas Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and National Museum Cardiff.

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  • Cardiff
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This entry is compiled from 6 catalogued sources across 4 independent registers. The registers consulted are Crossref registry, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation. Every statement above is held against the register that stated it; where the registers are silent, the entry is silent.

The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 20 August 2026.

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