Archive for July 2014
Meaning Inc.
Michael Fullerton’s show at the Glasgow Print Studio is a cracker: Meaning Inc.
Read MoreLorna Macintyre: Four Paper Fugues
You have to go see this. Start at the boathouse and rise in a dream to the conservatory… Four Paper Fugues
Read Morek0nch is awesome
I helped with this piece, but have a look at all of k0nch’s work while you’re at it. He’s particularly good with meat, as well as with words. Neil Bickerton on YouTube Tomato Tree
Read More‘I began to wonder how on earth you do something like this.’
Here’s a wee piece on DFW by Colin Barrett in today’s Guardian: My Hero
Read MoreThe Ugly Construction of Beauty
Here’s a paper that I delivered (remotely) at: MOD ART 13 MODERN ART CONFERENCE on Beauty and Ugliness, 25th to 27th November 2013, Istanbul, Turkey The Ugly Construction of Beauty Jane Topping, Programme Leader BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Cumbria, U.K. Keywords: Fine Art, Gender identity, Performance, Appropriation Abstract In film, a woman’s desire…
Read MoreThe Luck of Edenhall
My contribution to this group exhibition’s publication, 2014. Curated by Linda Fitzgerald. In 1989, when we were both 17 and I had learnt to drive, Ross (my best friend and boyfriend) and I took a trip north. At a seaside village on the west coast of Scotland, we visited a jumble sale in the church…
Read MoreThe Nabokov Paper
My contribution to The Nabokov Paper book, by Kate Briggs and Lucrezia Russo. Published by information as material. 36Q (6)BLEAK HOUSE Give the structural scheme of Bleak House in terms of its main thematic centers and their interconnecting lines. Outside Bleak House: A Transcript of Sorts (Red on black) London. Westminster Bridge, policeman in the…
Read MoreDiscordia
I’ve designed a t-shirt. It looks a bit like a totalitarian PE Kit. Is there any other kind? See it here: DISCORDIA presents performance, live music and limited edition t-shirts by twenty contemporary artists involved with Patricia Fleming Projects from the early 90’s to the present. DISCORDIA celebrates the ‘DIY and ‘lo-fi’ approach instrumental to the…
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