“The best Blade Runner sequel is Peter by Jane Topping.” Matt M. Lloyd, Glasgow Short Film Festival, 2017. Peter (Dir. Jane Topping, 2014) re-frames what is considered a classic of dystopian cinema (Blade Runner, 1982, dir. Ridley Scott) with the intention of positioning the artist within the text and so implying that such radical gestures…

I made the film Outside Bleak House (13:22) for this show. It’s about spending a summer avoiding reading Dickens’ Bleak House for an exhibition. I worked the film into some artist pages in Kate Briggs’s and Lucrezia Russo’s book, The Nabokov Paper. Thank you Kate, Lucrezia, Prof. Robert Williams, Nick & Simon of information as material and…

Jane Topping’s solo exhibition The Women references paranoid gothic texts, costume and gender definition to interrogate the power play of relationships. Topping uses repetition and mirroring to highlight the anxiousness that accompanies looking and being looked at. Duty and desire, devotion and decadence are revealed in The Women through a collection of screenprints, collages, drawings…

Part of this series of works was the 30 minute video Darklight (2011) made to time for this 30 minute show at Nomi’s Kitchen which I reworked to be a good chunk of Pist Protta Issue 71. You can watch a super-low res version here, though I doubt it was much more resolved at the…

A solo show at Glasgow Project Room. Witchcraft, broken hearts and bloody revenge, 2010. Argento approved.

At the invitation of Dawn Bothwell, Ciara Phillips and I made a little show at the back of a record shop in Newcastle. I had a thing about zombie hands and Ciara was just getting into wall painting.

A two-person show with Lynn Hynd. Set up in two shop spaces in Sword Street, Glasgow and thanks to Switchspace. This is ancient history, work-wise, but a crucial moment I thought it might be worthwhile keeping in mind. All the titles are lost in time, but whirling around my head were things I still dwell…