React! React! React!

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!

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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Class Matters

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)

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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Drew Barrymore’s Island Hotel from Hell

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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Dirty Screens, still filthy

These may not be recent, but they are great. They’re all unique C-type prints at 32 inch TV dimensions (47 × 77 cm) and available on Artsy here. ‘Screenshot’ tags not included!

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NeMLA 53rd Annual Convention 2022

Delighted to be given the opportunity to present remotely at the Northeast Modern Language Association 53rd Annual Convention this year – my second contribution to this friendly, interdisciplinary affair. I was discussing the flick book A 35mm 208-ish Frame Version of Blade Runner (2018) in the context of literary and film adaptation. Thank you Bill…

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Amsterdam 2007-08

In a clean up of an old hard drive I found these images of work I made when I was in Amsterdam on the SAC (as was) Residency back in 2007-08. Ancient history of course, but as I ease myself back into the studio after making some changes to my working practices (farewell UoCIoA, hello…

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