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Some of my photographs in the Children of Mab exhibition
: “I’m delighted to say that the Opening Party for my Children of Mab exhibition at Treadwell’s Bookshop went very well, and seemed to be enjoyed by all - thank you to everyone who managed to get there. I’d…”
Dr Callum Sutherland (left) and myself (right)
: “Back on 19th November 2021 I was interviewed over Zoom by Dr Callum Sutherland (pictured above, on the left) as part of his research. Callum is a Research Associate at Glasgow University’s School of…”
A pencil study for The Goblin Market by the author
: “For a couple of years I’ve had an idea at the back of my mind to do a drawing based on Christina Rossetti’s 1859 poem Goblin Market as part of my Acid Renaissance series. It’s a poem that has…”
: “Update: October 2023 - as you can see above, the YouTube copy of Stargazy on Zummerdown has disappeared. Hopefully another will appear at some point, but I can’t find one at the moment. Let me know if…”
: “Yesterday was St Swithin’s Day and it hasn’t rained for days. The Met Office has issued its first ever Red Warning for extreme heat, predicting that “exceptional, perhaps record-breaking, temperatures…”
: “As you may have heard if you follow my Twitter or Instagram accounts, I will be showing some of my artwork at Children of Mab, an exhibition in the basement room at Treadwell’s bookshop in London…”
Bacchanalia Beneath the Wind Turbines, by the author
: “I’ve written about imagining progressive alternative futures here before, mainly as ways of breaking out of the chains of capitalist realism (most are tagged as Mark Fisher and/or Acid Communism if you…”
: “Since 2019 I’ve been reading various books which all seem to circle around the themes and ideas that make up my Acid Renaissance series of artwork. This will be the thirtieth blog post I’ve written…”
: “I’ve run a mailing list/newsletter for this website since … possibly as far back as the late 1990s. Sometimes I’ve been good at sending out stuff, but more recently I’ve been very bad. I sent one…”
Spirit of the Orchard (detail)
: “Although I only posted this photograph on my site and social media yesterday, it was actually taken at a photoshoot back in the autumn of 2020, in the window between the first and second Covid lockdowns…”
: “I think hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to…”
Read the rest of “Is it easier to end capitalism than to imagine the end of capitalism?”…
: “My creativity and inspiration have been very limited of late. Sometimes this just happens, and at other times there’s a definite correlation with what’s going on in the world. In this particular case…”
Read the rest of “Diggers, Moss, and Bacon: a round-up for February”…
Bacchanalia Beneath the Wind Turbines, by the author
: “I’m a visual artist, so this brief piece about Mark Fisher’s draft introduction to his planned book Acid Communism (sadly never to be realised due to his premature death) examines the concept from…”
Three Studies from the Court of Queen Mab
: “I wrote about the first drawing in this series-inside-a-series back in early August, and I wrote about some of the props and references later that month. Since then I’ve finished the second and third…”
Read the rest of “First three studies from the Court of Queen Mab”…
: “A couple of weeks ago in my last blogpost I wrote about my plan to make a number of Studies from the Court of Queen Mab, which will form an arc or mini-series as part of my Acid Renaissance series, and…”
Detail from Study of a Figure in the Court of Queen Mab (1)
: “My original plan was a very large scale, multi-figure, drawing of the Court of Queen Mab, but I simply don’t have the room - I’d need a large studio space to attempt something like that. So instead…”
the islands of Great Britain and Ireland at current sea level, at a 40m rise in sea level, and at a 60m rise in sea level
: “The images above are taken from flood.firetree.net and show the islands of Great Britain and Ireland at current sea level, at a 40m rise in sea level, and at a 60m rise in sea level, dramatically changing…”
Life-drawings by the author
: “As the third national lockdown in England doesn’t look like it will be a short one, I’ve been making some plans on how to continue my artistic practice under the restrictions. The vast majority…”
Life drawing by the author
: “I’ve been trying to figure out the legality (and ethical conundrums) of restarting my life-drawing practice under the revised “3 Tier” system that is due to come into force in England on Wednesday…”
Read the rest of “Life-drawing during Covid: some thoughts”…
: “I suddenly realised I haven’t updated this for a few months, and while I haven’t been especially prolific I have actually completed some more Acid Renaissance artwork, so… Sketch for “The Lotus…”