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 328477

Commercial Folio

Fine Art folio

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

Who the heck is Dr Edd Synister?

Creatively active since 1983, rising from the back room

of UK advertising construction services.

Dr. Edd Synister has worked for and on projects

of national and international proportions.

During the period 1983 - 1990 many households used products created or touched by the hand and mind of Synister, from Natural Bath products to children’s toys and highly popular soft drinks. For years his graphics littered the commercial world on posters, albums covers, package designs, corporate id’s. To such a degree of success that there came a time when the Dr Edd was asked to pass his knowledge on to the younger generation, this lead to a minor teaching position at a South London College. It was round this time that he became involved with character known as A Macintosh.

Macintosh showed Synister the shape of things to come, and in turn he was so convinced by the Macintosh vision of the future that he retired from the commercial art world to study and master the new Doctrine. For three years he spent time acquiring the necessary resources and skills for production. His first box being an SE on which he produced the first issue of the “Dead Dog Chronicles” an off shoot of one of Dr Edd’s musical projects. He then upgraded to the great grand daddy of Macs the SE30, and this was use to produce further copies of the chronicles plus some light work when Ed could be bothered, but most of his time was spent looking off in to the future for that contained far more interesting possibilities that printed sheets of A4. Multimedia and the Internet became the pressing issues that Synister occupied his mind and time with. After graduating to the world of colour with the purchase of a Centris 650.Dr Edd was seen to withdraw from the world. Friends and relatives became worried. He wasn’t seen for days sometimes weeks, and then when he did dane to grace the normal world, his looked a mess. Unshaven wild starring red eyes, detached as if something else occupied his mind. And after touring Germany in 1995 with his band Dead Dog Mountain. He disappeared altogether. Very little was seen of either Dr Edd or the band with only one appearance in November 95 in which the band had already taken a radical new format.

Then in December 1995 Dr Edd Reappeared with a 12 year retrospective exhibition of his general creative works, titled DARKSIDE at the Tram Depot gallery in Clapton, Hackney, London, UK. This exhibition contained work produced in all media and disciplines, with exhibits featuring human remains (Caroline’s Mail) three macs,12 TV’s + sound and light (terrorvision). Legal documents (Hackney Council vs. Public Enemy No6), and the showing of four new works in oil /acrylic. (Neighbourhood Threat) (The Rock Thrower) (Ravin’) (Death in a Little White Room). The exhibition was well received by those who attend and a film was made of the event. It was at this exhibition that it became clear exactly where Dr Edd had been.

He had found a rift in cyberspace at Building in Hoxton, London UK, and was busy devising ways to fill it. In February 1996 the first vessel to carry Dr Edd and crew into cyberspace was launched. Dogzone.V1. A small site dedicated to the activities of the band, and the return of the ‘Chronicles’ which was moulded in to a zine for the future. Version 2 was launched in May 96, the site featured sound, and animation and other devices, matching and sometimes bettering other sites by much larger institutions, but the main task was still at hand. The filling of the Hoxton rift. To accomplish this task Dr Edd recruited older brother Ed senior and long time cyber cohort Mad Math Mazurka. Two men at the cream of their existence skilled tech’s and deep thinkers. Their first objective was to place some thing small at the centre of the Hoxton Rift. This they did, and in February 97. the Barefoot Konstruct - On line. Took it’s place among the ones and zeros of digital space. The next item on the agenda was to cause this site to grow and fill the rift. After acquiring the necessary virtual real estate and fixing a conflict of identity, the webspace and publishing entity known as “http://www.hardfood.com” was established.

In 1998 he formed the mojo_101.production.troupe and staged two new projects “MY SPIKEY BOX” and “CABARAVE”

For a while he assisted with matters a junglerat.com, while searching for premise and funding for the next part of Spikey Box, and two other art projects scheduled for performance within the next two years. He has recently been involved with the Molotov Organism Collective performances at The Global Cafe and OMSK film club. 1999 saw a return to past ground reunited with Monster Ink to help with their digital upgrade. During which he work on design and production of material for the Millennium Dome, MTV’s European Music Awards held in Dublin, the Rugby World Cup in Cardiff and decorations used and seen in over 4 countries on new years eve 1999. His work with the DDM. Continued as the band moved in to their tenth year, it continued to be a fertile breeding ground for Edd”s creativity on all levels. Recording and performances scheduled for that year were based around a new selection of music, celebrating the fusion of rhythm and politics at the end of the nineties and continuing a tradition of urban folk music in to the new millennium.

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.

Mervyn Diese - Dr Edd’s general dogsbody & biographer.