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Mervyn Diese
 
 
About the Artist

The year 2000 opened with decor worked on while on contract with Monster Ink Ltd., in four time zones. London, Dublin, Paris, New York. February saw the Tenth Anniversary Show by DDM, after which he took a rest from music to concentrate on web and more film based projects. Linking up two like-minded manipulators of technology he sort to explore and participate in live video mixing as decorative environment for entertainment venues. In November 2000 DVJ’s was formed as an active unit, and have now to date established three residencies, one of was a weekly club at the Vic Naylor Restaurant & Bar St. John St. London. EC1.

The DVJ’s went to perform at Edinburgh Festival in 2002 as part of a show called ‘Alan Shitface I Am Virus’ and the Pleasance Theatre Club nights where their visual debauchery continued well in to the early hours. They also appeared at Glastonbury Festival in 2003, and performed with the bands EAT STATIC, PRIMAL SCREAM, SYSTEM 7, and OSRIC TENTICALS, as well as providing environments for large scale clubs and parties.



With the coming of war his next filmic production was a web based art piece titled

‘ George Bush and his weapons of Mass distraction’ this as part of a worldwide art event called WARTIME and featured over 120 artists. The wartime site can be found at:



http://offline.area3.net/wartime/



In 2004 he chose to revisit the past by exhibiting some of the work from ‘37’ a digital picture work created in the years 1999/2000 to celebrate the turn of the centaury. The work had never been shown in its printed form outside of the Internet, and although some of the imagery had been used in the DVJ’s project this would be the first time that some the work could be seen in print. The show was staged at the Vic Naylor Restaurant & Bar St. John St. London. EC1. And ran for two months from June till August 2004.



In that same year he was try to open a gallery in London an while researching the possibilities had a motorcycle accident which halted all work on that project, and curb creative activity for a while. The events of July 2005 spurred a return to form with the creation of 1 new painted work titled “STOCKWELL” and the start of the ‘3 Monkeys’ project.



In December 2005 he made what was to be a very stimulating trip to see Jhan Stanley, ceramic artist, and partner who was work on a British Council Fund Ceramic art project in Indonesia. The break from the urban realities of London, England was extremely refreshing and has been a source of inspiration for several pieces to be released this year. He continues to explore the development of Internet via his own web space



http://www.diesekonstruction.co.uk

with a view to developing a sales base for works and products of his own design, ranging from clothing to works of art.



Major works and collections:


Aug 6 .8:15 1945 – acrylic on canvass


The Head of Jeff Ellis – acrylic on canvass


It’s A Man’s World – gouache and collage on paper


Wars Rich Pageant – watercolour on paper


My Spikey Box

– sculpture and environment, plus multimedia performance


The Dead Dog Chronicles – publication


The Rock thrower – oil on canvass


Neighbourhood Threat – acrylic on canvass


The Truth Presents itself – official documents and sound


37- digital paintings


The Revenge of John Crow part 1

- photographic with digital manipulation


Mad Hatters Tea Party – living sculptural event


The Victim – plaster on wire


Catch 22 – barbed wire, paper, metal. plastic


The Sleeper – plaster on wire


Spare Change – plaster on wire


George Bush and his Weapons of Mass Deception

– multi media web movie


3 monkeys – printed paper, sculptural works, and installations


Stratford2006 – photograhic


...MERVYN DIESE

Artist.Designer.Technician

theartist@diesekonstruction.co.uk


tel: 07890 465064

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Stockwell

2005
A4 29.7 x 210

The murder of Jean Charles De Meneze

diesekonstruction print 30

1999
digitally canvas print
A0 - 1188 x 841

from a range of 37 prints to comemorate reaching the year 2000 One of 16 produced and released for sale comes with certification

The Revenge of John Crow part1. print 3

2001
digitally canvass printed
1,828 x 1,219mm

Negative Gun threat

Deadlier than the male

2007
digital on canvass
300c m x 100cm

Deadlier than the male
a three pannel portraite of a friend dancing whist completely out of control after abusing the drug alchol.

BROKEN

2006
DIGITAL PHOTO
100cm x 200cm

BROKEN
protraite of model in a drug enduced colapse

constallation Gemini

2008
Digital PHOTO

constallation Gemini
Self portraite

PoliceMenShouldBeAfraidofOurLenses

2009
digital photograpic manipulation
300 x 100cm

From the recent work Terrorist, Artist or Journolist-Feb162009 Part of the 3 monkeys project shot at the Photoshoot event. called by Mark Thomas and the BPJ to mark the moment Clause 76 made it illeagal to photograph the British Police

HappySnappers

2009
Digital photograpic manipulation
300 x 100cm

From the recent work Terrorist, Artist or Journolist-Feb162009 Part of the 3 monkeys project shot at the Photoshoot event. called by Mark Thomas and the BPJ to mark the moment Clause 76 made it illeagal to photograph the British Police

Then Who Watches The Watchmen

2009
Digital photograpic manipulation
300 x 100cm

Then Who Watches The Watchmen
From the recent work Terrorist, Artist or Journolist-Feb162009 Part of the 3 monkeys project shot at the Photoshoot event. called by Mark Thomas and the BPJ to mark the moment Clause 76 made it illeagal to photograph the British Police

Justicebeingdrainedfromthecorpseofreason

2009
Digital photograpic manipulation
200 x 100

Justicebeingdrainedfromthecorpseofreason
From the recent work Terrorist, Artist or Journolist-Feb162009 Part of the 3 monkeys project shot at the Photoshoot event. called by Mark Thomas and the BPJ to mark the moment Clause 76 made it illeagal to photograph the British Police

ladyVengence

2009
Digital photograpic manipulation
500 x 100cm

ladyVengence
From the recent work Terrorist, Artist or Journolist-Feb162009 Part of the 3 monkeys project shot at the Photoshoot event. called by Mark Thomas and the BPJ to mark the moment Clause 76 made it illeagal to photograph the British Police

EvenIdontThinkThisIsRight

2009
Digital photograpic manipulation
300 x 100cm

From the recent work Terrorist, Artist or Journolist-Feb162009 Part of the 3 monkeys project shot at the Photoshoot event. called by Mark Thomas and the BPJ to mark the moment Clause 76 made it illeagal to photograph the British Police

ideasthatcanneverbekilled

2009
Digital photograpic manipulation
200 x 100

ideasthatcanneverbekilled
From the recent work Terrorist, Artist or Journolist-Feb162009 Part of the 3 monkeys project shot at the Photoshoot event. called by Mark Thomas and the BPJ to mark the moment Clause 76 made it illeagal to photograph the British Police

TheCrowonThePondofFilth

2009
Digital photograpic manipulation
200 x 400

From the recent work Terrorist, Artist or Journolist-Feb162009 Part of the 3 monkeys project shot at the Photoshoot event. called by Mark Thomas and the BPJ to mark the moment Clause 76 made it illeagal to photograph the British Police

knowyourrights

2009
digital photograpic manipulation
200 x 400

knowyourrights
 
Education and biography
Exhibitions:


Clays Lane Arts festival

– Clays Lane Community Centre, London E15 - 1984


Home is where the Art is

– Stratford Shopping Centre, London E15 – 1991


Darkside – solo exhibition.

The Tram Depot, Lower Clapton Road, London E5 - 1993


My Spikey Box

– sculptural installation and performance environment,

Arch 136 Mentmore Terrace, London E8 – 1997


Dog and Toad – the Barley Mow Curtain Road, London N1 – 1999


Wartime – online world wide collaborative work, internet. http://wartime.net - 2003


9 from 37 plus 4 – solo show, Vic Naylor Restaurant 38-42 St Johns Street London EC1






site specific works:


Mad hatters tea party

– Public Park Hackney London E5


My Spikey Box

– railway arch Hackney, London E8


4 angels

– Collaborative painting of Oxford Circus, London W1 – Dec 1999


Wartime

–online world wide collaborative work, internet. http://wartime.net
 
Future shows
3 Monkeys

This years first batch of work released is from the digital media bank that I am building for the final show. This particular batch of images was made on the same day that I shot a small film about Clause 76 and the way it was criminalising my ablitiy to make art. If my artistic recordings of state errors, mismangement is labeled as a crime, and censored, then where is my freedom to make art? If anything Clause 76 of the terrorist act vaildates the statements made with in the work 3 Monkeys. But as a radical artist should I shut up, comply, and behave or should I continue to catalouge the comedy of errors that government and humanity continues to act out.

M. Diese - 2009 update
 
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