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Sue Zuki & Amor LP launch at The Blue Arrow
Thanks to a Vernon tip off, I saw a great set by Sue Zuki. Listen to Boring af and more here, and be not bored. Sue was supporting Amor’s LP launch. Sinking into a Miracle had some early smooth, silky, yacht moments which were a little Beloved and a little Blue Nile. Phenomenal drumming – something…
Read MoreNewspaper or (Memoirs of a Spacewoman)
Here’s the front page of Alex Hetherington’s Newspaper or (Memoirs of a Spacewoman), written in response to Peter (2014). It’s not a collaboration, this is all Alex, but I wrote a bit of text and choose the images. All these images by Alex Hetherington.
Read MoreShe Was a Visitor – No.35 Project with Alex Hetherington
Thank you to everyone who came along to She Was a Visitor, the last No. 35 project by Alex Hetherington. Alex used my work and imagery as a jumping-off point, writing and designing a gorgeous text which was launched (in very limited edition) while we played around with www.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com, watched Peter, nou and The Man…
Read MoreArtist Talk – Moving Mountains Art in the Environment – Millom Palladium
Thank you to Moving Mountains artist and curator Irene Rogen, Phil of the vital Signal Film and Media, Frank (not Santa), Mary (who hung out with Norman Nicholson when she was a child!) and everyone who turned out of my talk in Millom the other week. Drinks were served and badges worn.
Read MorePieces of You Are Here – Lorna Macintyre at DCA
I was lucky enough to get along to Lorna’s opening at DCA last weekend and had a tip-top lunch with some long term favs to boot – thank you Lorna, Val and all at DCA. Pieces of You Are Here is delicate, detailed and full of beautiful surprises. An emotional thing for me – which…
Read MoreMargaret Salmon at DCA
Margaret Salmon’s show at DCA is dealing with things my work has skirted around at times, but while I’ve come (ahem) at notions of love and intimacy by implying that the screen itself is both a barrier and a conduit of desire and touch, a semi-permeable membrane, a bad condom, Salmon plunges us right into…
Read MoreJane Topping, Newspaper or (Memoirs of a Spacewoman) – A No. 35 Project – Opens 12-6pm 8th Dec. 2018
Consider yourself officially invited to Newspaper, a collaboration with Alex Hetherington – the last of his innovative No.35 projects in Stirling and a celebration of the entire series of shows, performances and films: http://alexanderhetherington.com/project/jane-topping/ More on Alex and his numerous projects here: https://fractofilm.com/SELECTION-4 Web address, developed with artist Alex Tobin, http://alexanderhetherington.com Instagram https://www.instagram.com/edinburgh_film_school/ MODERN EDINBURGH…
Read MoreThe Influencing Machine – nGbK, Berlin – a peek…
Hi you, I maybe shouldn’t share these images, which are merely mocks, but I’m too excited about the incredible work going on in Berlin, towards the ngbk* show The Influencing Machine. My work www.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com will be in the show, and in the associated publication. The show is curated and made real by a working group consisting of Vladimir…
Read MoreBig Store (1999 or 2000)
Just found this blast from the very, VERY distant past. I made Big Store in 1999 as part of Nicola Atkinson-Griffith’s Bulkhead project. It was my first work after graduating from GSA and I got to show with far superior artists Justin Carter, Jess Worrall and Rob Kennedy. It’s excruciating to read this interview – yet…
Read MoreThe Man Who Fell to Millom (2018)
Here’s a video I’ve made in collaboration with the genius ears of Mark Vernon. And some screenshots. The Man Who Fell to Millom (2018) is a short, atmospheric, science fiction film set in Millom. As a Glasgow-based artist commissioned by the Moving Mountains Festival to make a film about Ghyll Scaur Quarry, I was acutely…
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