The Zoo & Logical Times

One of the most pop­u­lar down­loads from this site is my old ‘Vote for Nobody’ design. Also known as the ‘Shiz­head’. I’ve decided to update it slightly and present it here for your use and abuse. They may be prin­ted, used, postered, graffiti’d, cut-up, dis­sem­in­ated, cus­tom­ised etc. Its always fun to see them pop­ping up […]

Dear Ella Street, Are you aware that there is a pro­ject to trans­form your Street with Pub­lic Art­works, due to run over the next year? Between Wed­nes­day 23^rd of Feb­ru­ary and 4^th March, four artists ideas are on dis­play at Art­link, Princes Avenue. You are invited to look at these pro­pos­als and offer your opin­ions. One […]

Over a period of some eight­een or so months I had kept a journal of sorts, in which I wrote bad verse, devised pro­jects (some ill-fated, oth­ers still to be real­ised), and recor­ded my dreams. I could not say what ‘mys­tical’ or ‘other-worldly’ prop­er­ties they con­tained, if any, although in ret­ro­spect they merge with other such exper­i­ments: the eso­teric sym­bols I would design and incor­por­ate into my paint­ings, and my interest in sleep deprivation.

Some images from the dream poster actions which were part of Artranspennine03, and were dis­trib­uted across Hull, Leeds and Liv­er­pool — 2003

HULL AIR (Burwell’s Pìobaire­achd) by Lee Mer­rill Send­all With con­tri­bu­tions from; Dave Ellis, John Robin­son, Gary Mck­eown Lee Mer­rill — HULL AIR (Burwell’s Pìobaire­achd) from Matt’s Gal­lery on Vimeo. David Ellis and Lee Mer­rill are part of ninety col­lab­or­at­ors that have been com­mis­sioned by Matt’s Gal­lery, Lon­don, to con­trib­ute a film to TAPS: Impro­visa­tions with […]