"I love Mistake" Brian Catling, "Where Does It All Come From?" (2021)

Great evening with @racheldelman.bsky.social and @stoneclub.bsky.social at @soanemuseum.bsky.social last night for Fragments and Ruins. An unfolding labyrinth of stony wonder introduced by the magical words of the late, great Brian Catling. Thank you to all!

HAVE YOU SEE THIS CAT? Last seen snaking between a pair of stockinged legs. Has fleas. #Earwig #BCatling

Brian Catling The Disciples (2000) From Small Acts: Performance, The Millennium and The Making of Time

Remembering Brian Catling, who passed away on this day three years ago.

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B. Catling photographed at Wayland’s Smithy by @matthewmshaw.bsky.social

Esto va a ser increíble. @aristasmartinez.bsky.social, Catling y Javier Calvo. «Brian Catling se sumerge de lleno en las visiones de El Bosco y Brueghel el Viejo para ofrecernos una lectura tan deslumbrante como imaginativa». Octubre.

"'At its core [of Elective Affinities] lies the thought of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), whose philosophy of correspondences proposed a resonance between objects, places and events and our thoughts and affections."' Featuring the work of Brian Catling RA.

"'At its core [of Elective Affinities] lies the thought of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), whose philosophy of correspondences proposed a resonance between objects, places and events and our thoughts and affections."' Featuring the work of Brian Catling RA.

And how remiss to not mention the translator: Javier Calvo

Cover to LA MONTAÑA HUECA, the Spanish edition of B. Catling's HOLLOW, which will be out October 8th from Aristas Martinez Cover design: Xavi Forné (IG: errordesign)

A shot from NEIGH, Brian Catling's performance at the Horse Hospital, Feb 2020

Some good stuff from the X

Kammer Scape Brian Catling RA

Kammer Scape Brian Catling RA

Brian Catling's Vorrh Trilogy is some mind-bendingly weird stuff that I highly recommend. I will be checking out Hollow.

"Renaissance mercenaries transporting an oracle and they have to feed it bones and confess their sins, and one guy confesses that he ate an angel" I HAVE NEVER BOUGHT A BOOK FASTER (Hollow by Brian Catling)

Try almost anything by Brian Catling. Earwig, Hollow, The Vorrh Trilogy.

Brian Catling RA 📸 Linda Nylind

Dawn West Dusk East Watch designed by Brian Catling in 2010 with @mrjoneswatches.bsky.social

Dawn West Dusk East Watch designed by Brian Catling in 2010 with @mrjoneswatches.bsky.social

Merrick's Bedroom Brian Catling RA Laser engraving on wood with ink

Brian Catling as the Object in Nathaniel Mellors's OURHOUSE series (2010)

Cyclops Brian Catling RA

The interview with Alan Moore is good value, as you might expect from Northampton's literary lodestar.

Para los que os guste explorar el terror medieval y sus posibilidades, yo dudo entre empezar Hollow de Brian Catling (en inglés solo), sobre un grupo de mercenarios que deben escoltar a un oráculo en una misión para la iglesia, alimentándolo con tuétano y secretos oscuros.

19th century death mask of Edinburgh 'idiot' Robert Kirkwood or "Bobby Awl"

19th century death mask of Edinburgh 'idiot' Robert Kirkwood or "Bobby Awl"

Before The Vorrh took off, Catling had envisioned the book a slim volume ready to disappear onto the shelves, where it would wait for someone to discover. ONLY THE LOWLY by Storr Publishing is one of those overlooked works: a fully realized post-apocalyptic world of black humour.

Too true

EARWIG (Hadžihalilović, 2021) is a remarkably strange film. Based on a novel by the late B. Catling, it has some of the qualities of an early Jeunet & Caro film but this oddity is a beast all it's own.

Portrait Brian Catling RA paint & ink on laser etched wood

"When there is nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire." - Stars

Two more illustrations by Gianluigi Toccafondo from I DIVISI, the Italian edition of Brian Catling's The Cloven, third in the Vorrh Trilogy series from Safarà

A preview of one of the three postcards made available with each copy of A MYSTERY OF REMNANT by B. Catling from Swan River Press ‪@swanriverpress.bsky.social‬ Photograph by Iain Sinclair Text by Alan Moore (sourced from A Moment of Moore)

Two illustrations by Gianluigi Toccafondo from I DIVISI, the Italian version of Brian Catling's The Cloven, third in the Vorrh Trilogy series from Safarà

The great new book by the late Brian Catling now available from Swan River Press. It was my honour to do the cover paintings. t.co/uzVLNDOnV4

Good news. A collection of Brian Catling short stories. His pungent fecundities are to be treasured.

Have gotten halfway through The Vorrh (The Vorrh Trilogy, Book 1), by Brian Catling. Will finish it this time and then see if I'll go further on in the trilogy. #BookSky

A preview of one of the three postcards made available with each copy of A MYSTERY OF REMNANT by B. Catling from Swan River Press ‪@swanriverpress.bsky.social‬ Photograph by Iain Sinclair Text by Alan Moore (sourced from A Moment of Moore)

A MYSTERY OF REMNANT by B. Catling is moving briskly. Don't be one of those people who balks and dithers and regrets later not picking up this limited edition for cover price. swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/a-...

NEWS: @swanriverpress.bsky.social publish Brian Catling collection, 'A Mystery of Remnant and Other Absences'. #briancatling #swanriverpress wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2025/07/news...

app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/802d... Not quite as magnificent as The Vorrh Trilogy but still bloody good ❤️ #BookSky💙📚

In Deep League: A Conversation with B. Catling "I never plan my writing in any academic or system-based control. It is all a flowing out. Its momentum gathering images and bits of storage on its way." swanriverpress.ie/2020/07/in-d...

This is fun: B. Catling, A. Moore, I. Sinclair, C. Petit, M. Moorcock and ye olde bookselling underground of London. youtu.be/-7n74W9si1o?...

Muybridge had a wild life. He's a character in The Vorrh horror trilogy. Turned out all the weirdest stuff is true. (Murdered his wife's lover, head injury changed his personality overnight, was a war photographer...)

Thank you to Iain Sinclair, contributors and everyone who attended the special book launch of 'GIFTS RETURNED BY THE RIVER EDITED BY IAIN SINCLAIR'. Order your copy here £20 (PLUS P&P): www.swedenborg.org.uk/product/gift...

Just about finished the Vorhh in a burst of activity after nursing it for months. One of the best novels I've ever read, just image after image with unforgettable, brain scrambling power. I wish I had read all this before the performance VP did after Vanished lol

Fully 10 years since Andrew Kötting conceived, directed & mucked about in a film about John Clare, By Our Selves, w Eden Kötting, Toby & his father Freddie Jones, Iain Sinclair, Macgillivray, Alan Moore, Jem Finer, & me. What does it all mean? Free to watch, it seems, on Vimeo: vimeo.com/465379899