Deep Joy on Home Soil, a single channel video piece displayed across a bank of monitors, was commissioned for Merris’s solo exhibition at Studio Voltaire in 2012.

Merris’ video works are heavily constructed, utilising a number of disruptive devices such as collaged sound and music, animated text cut from email exchanges and mixing found and made video footage. There is a particular sense of economy within the practice, both in its lo-fi production values and an overriding concern with (un)employment and down-at-heel consumerism.