Blackdrop

I am an artist and writer living in Glasgow.
Here is a general statement about what I do:

My work unfolds around a profound engagement with place and space and the subsequent experiences and research this engenders. Usually this means walking in an area, drawing, taking photographs, talking to people and producing finished texts and drawings. I view these activities as a form of divination, wherein I try to filter a particular place through the lens of my own subjectivity. I am instinctively drawn to the margins, whether they be cultural, political, psychological, social or spatial and I very much want to blur the boundaries between art and life, fiction and fact, history and myth. The work exhibits a kind of skewed and ironic romanticism – the solitary walker, autodidacticism, hermeticism, religious and occult motifs and exoticism all abound and are coarsened by being shoved into close proximity with popular culture, often in the form of pulp fiction, para-political speculation and dubious folklore of one kind or another.