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It was great to meet Paul from @palfoxphoto last month when he visited me at @waspsstudios Hanson Street to take these fab pictures 📷
My studio has always been more like an office than anything else, going back to my very first one in Glasgow in the Barnes Building at @glasgowschoolart from 2008-2010. I bought ‘The Boss’ mug back then as I was interested in the aesthetics of the corporate world and exploring what it meant to be self-employed worker, making pieces like ‘The History of Financial Crises’ (2009), ‘Desk Chair Parade’ (2009) and ‘Desk Chair Disco’ (2011), and the ‘Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed’ (2011).
I’m not making much art these days as nearly all my time goes into local community activism, particularly with the @glasgowcommunity Energy co-operative which I helped get up-and-running during the pandemic, and with the @getglasgowmoving public transport campaign which I co-founded in 2016.
Over the summer I’m preparing for Get Glasgow Moving’s 10th Anniversary Exhibition at the @newglasgowsociety, which opens on Thurs 17 September as part of @glasgowdodf 2026.
I love using my creative skills to further causes that I’m passionate about. Over the years I've designed many campaign materials – including this ‘Trans-Clyde Links You Clyde-Wide’ T-Shirt, which is based on the original marketing for the Trans-Clyde integrated public transport network launched by the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive in 1979, the year that I was born.
The integrated public transport networks which most big city-regions had were wilfully destroyed in 1986 with the deregulation (and later privatisation) of buses. This was one of the most destructive of all Margaret Thatcher’s policies, and it is shameful that the @scotgov has continued to maintain it for more than quarter of a century of devolution. With the @betterbusesspt campaign, we are doing all we can to get our region’s buses back in public control.
If you like the T-Shirt, come down to the exhibition in September and you’ll be able to get one there! And, if you'd like to have a nosey round my studio, I'm also planning to take part in the @hansonstreetstudios Open Studios on Sat 3 October 😊
My studio has always been more like an office than anything else, going back to my very first one in Glasgow in the Barnes Building at @glasgowschoolart from 2008-2010. I bought ‘The Boss’ mug back then as I was interested in the aesthetics of the corporate world and exploring what it meant to be self-employed worker, making pieces like ‘The History of Financial Crises’ (2009), ‘Desk Chair Parade’ (2009) and ‘Desk Chair Disco’ (2011), and the ‘Work-a-thon for the Self-Employed’ (2011).
I’m not making much art these days as nearly all my time goes into local community activism, particularly with the @glasgowcommunity Energy co-operative which I helped get up-and-running during the pandemic, and with the @getglasgowmoving public transport campaign which I co-founded in 2016.
Over the summer I’m preparing for Get Glasgow Moving’s 10th Anniversary Exhibition at the @newglasgowsociety, which opens on Thurs 17 September as part of @glasgowdodf 2026.
I love using my creative skills to further causes that I’m passionate about. Over the years I've designed many campaign materials – including this ‘Trans-Clyde Links You Clyde-Wide’ T-Shirt, which is based on the original marketing for the Trans-Clyde integrated public transport network launched by the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive in 1979, the year that I was born.
The integrated public transport networks which most big city-regions had were wilfully destroyed in 1986 with the deregulation (and later privatisation) of buses. This was one of the most destructive of all Margaret Thatcher’s policies, and it is shameful that the @scotgov has continued to maintain it for more than quarter of a century of devolution. With the @betterbusesspt campaign, we are doing all we can to get our region’s buses back in public control.
If you like the T-Shirt, come down to the exhibition in September and you’ll be able to get one there! And, if you'd like to have a nosey round my studio, I'm also planning to take part in the @hansonstreetstudios Open Studios on Sat 3 October 😊
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