By Jimmy Merris
Courtesy the artist
In an ongoing series, frieze invites artists to present a series of images that are important to them
His Highness, the Mighty Conquering Goat of Nant Gwynant, September 2015
I moved to the mountains recently – the ones in North Wales. So, imagine, there I am, old nature boy, walking around with my compass and my Kendal Mint Cake, talking to myself in a Liverpudlian accent, making landscape videos near to Dinas Emrys (where the red dragon mashed up the white dragon), and I only go and bump into this joker.
I had jerk goat once in south London, but I’ve never seen one walking the streets. He’s always hanging around in that same spot, looking shifty. We’ve had staring competitions.
The first time I saw him, I could’ve sworn he was mocking me, mocking my oeuvre. ‘You call that art?’ Now I think, he’s OK. He knows where I’m coming from, even if the humans don’t.
The second part of Jimmy Merris’s ‘Portfolio’ will be available tomorrow.