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The Auld Wives Lifts sit in a natural amphitheatre on the Cragmaddie Muir above Milngavie near Glasgow.
They consist of three extremely large pieces of grey schist, one propped on top of the other two. There is a space between them through which it is possible to pass.
The rocks are covered in carved grafitti from as far back as the 18th century at least, as well as around eight or so carved 'heads' or 'faces'. These have a primeval look about them but are probably fairly recent. The surrounding rocks have several cup and ring marks as well as other markings (including an 'eye').
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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.
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