React! React! React!

By Jane Topping | July 15, 2025

or Three Stories of Autoimmunity or Another Reason Not to Smoke Working in response to the work of Dr Megan Macleod and her team at the School of Infection and Immunity, University of Glasgow, I made React! React! React! or Three Stories of Autoimmunity or Another Reason Not to Smoke, a risograph publication that imagines…

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Scream For Me Glasgow!

By Jane Topping | July 15, 2025

This collage was part of From Glasgow to Saturn‘s Issue 52 Radical Joy. Thanks for the inclusion! From Glasgow to Saturn is a literary journal at the University of Glasgow. Based in the English Literature department, and run by students of the university’s Creative Writing Programme, we publish prose fiction, poetry, spoken word performance, essays, and…

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The Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus

By Jane Topping | July 15, 2025

I gave the paper Who’s nou? How one story used television to summon a non-human fiction-self device for the author at this conference organised by London Arts-Based Research Centre at Oxford University, 24-26 May 2025. Here’s the blurb: This conference aims to convene screenwriters, performance storytellers, digital storytellers, authors, educators, practitioners, journalists, scholars, researchers, psychologists,…

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IN THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE UFO PHENOMENONA

By Jane Topping | August 25, 2024

Thanks to Prof. Robert Williams and Bryan McGovern Willson, I introduced a screening of my films nou and The Man Who Fell to Millom at the symposium In the Cloud of Unknowing: Encounters with the UFO Phenomena at Mildred’s Lane, Pensilvania, USA (17-18 July 2024). The symposium came at the end of Robert & Bryan’s…

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Class Matters

By Jane Topping | June 25, 2024

Shown as part of Class Matters (2-21 May 2024, Annex Gallery, Glasgow School of Art), this is a kind of developmental work, unsure of its place (on a wall) and more concerned with the text that supported it… Huge thanks to Deborah Jackson, James Hutchinson & Elizabeth Hodson. All teenage bedrooms are sites of cultural…

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Shit Hair (2024)

By Jane Topping | May 25, 2024

Made for Queer Materialities Live! at GSA, March 2024, this wee packet of dubious origin that you picked up off the lecture theatre floor, was filled with one of two kinds of something… Just say no.

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The Man Who Fell to Millom Jellyfish

By Jane Topping | October 22, 2023

Here’s a link to a smashing wee reel showing my favourite bit of my film The Man Who Fell to Millom when it was part of Murky Waters, Art Walk Porty back in 2022… Cheers for posting. https://www.facebook.com/artwalkporty/posts/820835072257649/

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Drew Barrymore’s Island Hotel from Hell

By Jane Topping | October 19, 2023

A solo show of new work at Patricia Fleming Gallery 3 November – 16 December 2023. Private View: Thu, 2 Nov, 6-8pm Patricia Fleming GalleryOxford House, 4 Oxford Lane, GlasgowG5 9EP We are delighted to invite you to Drew Barrymore’s Island Hotel from Hell, a solo exhibition of new work by Jane Topping. Denim pillars frame…

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Fiction Machines IV

By Jane Topping | July 12, 2023

Excited to be contributing to Fiction Machines IV symposium in at Bath School of Art, Film & Media on 20th July! I’ll not be performing however – that task will be passed to the alien/human hybrid nouJane. It’s about time they started pulling their weight… Loads of great sessions to look forward to and tix…

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