Sketchbook 1.3

Untitled I

Oil, pencil and house paint on wood.
From the group show "We Can Work It Out" at The GRV last November.
A woman I loved like a best friend lies comatose in my kitchen. She sings Al Green.

"Makes me tick, makes you crawl."

Shingle's I & II

Untitled II & III

Oil, pencil and house paint on wood.
These are from the group show "We Can Work It Out" at The GRV Project last November.
Elph was sort of curating the show so it was pretty last minute. I knocked out these and a couple of others on the morning of the show with just enough time to catch the train, get to the gallery and hang the work. After that I got piss drunk and lost everything i owned.

Sketchbook 1.2

"Kowy Young Team"

R.I.P. R. McAllister 1926-2008

I live in his house, I draw on his paper, I paint in his garage and take photograph's with his camera's. I read his books. He's not there.

Sketchbook 1.1

I did eventually get my sketchbooks back. No camera but i didn't expect to see that again.

I've been doing some work for the upcoming issue of Overspray. The theme is of course, you guessed it "Street Heart".

I'll keep you posted on this when its closer to the time. Meanwhile why not check out the Overspray Blog they update it quite often.

The Changing Room is Moving

After a decade Stirlings only contempory art space closed its almost secret, slightly hidden doors in the old Crawford Arcade for the last time on the 31st of December.

But don't worry its only gone and moved up the hill to The Tolbooth, Stirlings super-nice all round contempory arts and music venue. It should be re-launched sometime this summer with better facilities, advertising and general oh look its right there. That was easy to find feelings (and theres a bar upstairs). Oh what fun and merryment shall be had.

The Changing Room
Tolbooth
Jail Wynd
Stirling
FK8 1DE
Scotland
changingroom@stirling.gov.uk
www.stirling.gov.uk/changingroom

Lost Sketchbook 1.0

This is a page from my sketchbook which disapeared during a night of excess along with everything else in my bag, notebook, camera, pens, a neat little watercolour set and all the rest. It's been a while now and I've given up hope on it reapearing, but just in case. They are A6 size Moleskine's one lined and full and one blank and fairly new, my email is on the inside if you find them I'll give you a lovely pressie for christmas.

Start a Fire

This is one of my pieces from "Take To the Woods" the group show at Analogue. Which someone was kind enough to buy. Coincidently this week is National Tree Week. So if you can, try and be nice to some trees... Well at least until Sunday.

"We Can Work It Out."

"We Can Work It Out." is a group show at one of the new exhibition spaces in The Green Room in Edinburgh.
It opened last Friday the 16th to what seemed to me to be a full house and good reviews.
Along side myself other exhibitors include Acorn, Jet-Pac, Klingatron, Iain Laurie, Matt Pattinson, Roule, Sole, Amy Whiten. Fellow Tell Tale collaborators Spie One, David Galletly, Carrie McGinn and Elph (who sort of curated the show in his own last minute kind of way).

"The Helvetica Show" is on upstairs in the other exhibition space. Both are well worth checking out if your in the area.

Take to the Woods Catalogue.

"Take To The Woods"

Nigel Peake did this flyer for the first ever group exhibition at Analogue, and he put my name on it so i might go home and do some work.

Please feel free to drop in on the opening party on Thursday the 15th November from 7 pm, while you wait you can check out these links for all the other nice people with names on the flyer.

Acorn, Alexa Cameron, Chris Bourke, Claire Scully, David Galletly, Dist, Elph, French, Holly Wales, Iain Bruce, Jo Waterhouse, Jon Burgerman, Magda Boreysza, Marcus Oakley, Marcus Walters, Matt Pattinson, Matt Sewell, Natalie Russell, Neasdon Control Centre, Nigel Peake, Robert Hanson, Samuel Sparrow, Simon Peplow, Simone Lia, Stuart White, Supermundane, Suzi Q, Tommy Perman and Will Barras.

its pretty much a roll call of everyone whose had exhibitions, made Running Amoks or sold there wares through Analogue.