‘The shocking knife attack in north Belfast was a barbaric act, but claims that this brand of brutality is entirely “alien” to Northern Ireland represent a severe case of historical amnesia.’ [1/n]

Some installation shots from ‘Get your paper here’ at the Formation Gallery in Copenhagen many thanks for asking me to contribute

Fishnish Wedding Picture

If every day was a ghost

A drawing of a room with a bed and a chair

Some mock-ups/ final footering around with two recent pieces

Losing something creates something- Mohamed Mbougar Sarr talking about solitude, being alone and leaving Senegal youtu.be/aBYh4DRPwy8?...

Some pencil drawing with Martyn Bennett for company this morning youtube.com/playlist?lis...

youtu.be/bjZlwBmq4ig?... still a bit of a drawing buddy this one

The Scots word for pony is pony. A bit of a reworking of an earlier drawing.

A solitary lightbulb casts light on a room that nobody can go into

"Our goal is simply to point out irregularity as a device, to show the necessity and the importance of irregularity in art." Aleksei Kruchenykh

An aeroplane flies over an imagined northern Italian landscape

Thats me away for the next 29:17 youtu.be/eEtK1q2fRjw?...

My drawing buddy today youtu.be/BxS5oipwm5Y?...

Sgura

The Spanish Galleass ‘La Girona’ was wrecked off the Antrim coast in 1588. Only nine survived out of an estimated 13,00. Among the dead were countless slaves from Central and South America. A ring was found made from conquistador gold ‘No tengo mas que dar te’ - ‘I have nothing more to give thee’

Your trust in the world, in people, disappears. You can’t trust because you can lose…….. everything is broken. Drawing confronts the world but hides from it at the same time.

Just seeing how these look together

Psalmody

Heavy Structures in a Landscape Setting - is a title lifted shamelessly from a painting by a William McCance and at the minute exists only as a series of drawings printed and glued to form a clumsy approximation of a book.

Lovely to be able to do the artwork for this: OTHER LIKE ME is the next single by Bandit Country and is out on the 17th of April on all streaming services. BBC Introducing gave a sneak peak and you can listen via BBC Radio Sounds. There’s a pre-save via the link in the band’s bio.

Scotia Desertia Walking the coast
all those kyles, loch and sounds

sensing the openness
feeling out the lines

order and anarchy
chaos and cosmology

a mental geography

Extract from ‘Scotia Deserta’ by Kenneth White

Scotia Desertia Walking the coast
all those kyles, loch and sounds

sensing the openness
feeling out the lines

order and anarchy
chaos and cosmology

a mental geography

Extract from ‘Scotia Deserta’ by Kenneth White

Helen Bellany’s moving account of visiting Eyemouth and her husband John youtu.be/F-A9g0PabRI?...

Sometimes nothing comes near this song youtu.be/SmWuSgMgjD0?...

More offcuts and changes of direction, oh go and read a book, it’s so much more worthwhile

A gentle note - today 6pm, my free, lo/no pressure, #bandcamp Listening Party.😊 No camera or audio chat, just 40 mins listening, with real-time text transcript of the sound world created by Eluned Charnley. Arr 10 mins early to set up captions. #sound 🎧 nicholascrutton.bandcamp.com/live/scenes-...

Cheers Grant, another excuse (as if I needed one) to post the original lyric sheet I got if Chalkie, with misspellings, crossings out, fingerprints an'all. The closest thing I have to a religious relic.

‘A set of unfinished drawings based on an urban myth about David Byrne’

Twa Dugs an offcut from some recent work

Some Philippe Weisbecker as a drawing buddy today. I love the way he talks about being a ‘documentarist’ and appropriating objects to make them even more personal youtu.be/Pp2wKj6ISM4

Put this on a loop and play for 24 hours, you'll probably achieve Nirvana🌟 The Velvet Underground ~ What Goes On, live for a ecstatic 9 minutes. One of the best live Velvets' recordings. #LouReed #SterlingMorrison #VelvetUnderground www.youtube.com/watch?v=kym3...

‘When you move from place to place, you carry the things that matter to you’ Some Njideka Akunyili Crosby as a drawing buddy today youtu.be/dz0BV7TOkkA?...

Artwork for the forthcoming single ‘Colossal’ by Bandit Country to be released 20th March. You can pre save here url2734.distrokid.com/ls/click?upn...

I'm editing a book, part memoir, part art history, about the German artist Kurt Schwitters' last years in the English Lake District, and it's FANTASTIC. Not read anything like this in years and cannot wait until @littletollerbooks.bsky.social publishes it later this spring. More soon.

Nature knows nothing of what we call landscape

Pierce Street, San Francisco 1991 #MargaretKilgallen

Homes are interesting to me

Shall we go out walking?

Dugs of war, seems appropriate

Dugs

Quite exciting news for the new audiobook of Alasdair Gray's Lanark: "Alasdair himself also makes an appearance. Back in 1995, Alasdair recorded excerpts from Lanark for a cassette release, and those tapes have been folded into the new production." www.thenational.scot/news/2583385...

'His achievement is to create this loving and vivid portrayal of one small corner of London, its making and remaking after The Great War'. V. grateful for this lovely review of Songs of Seven Dials by London Society - which really gets what I was trying to do. londonsociety.org.uk/songs-of-sev...

A wee bit of this as a drawing buddy today. Tim Neats’ wonderful book on the highland traveling families and pearl fishers

Edvard Munich’s Cabbage Field. I’m on a bit of a Karl Ove Knausgård kick at the minute. He describes the painting as being about death to him and seeing the world for the first time when you’re not there. He talks about it better than I could here: youtu.be/-0EaEf2HXMs?...