January 1
2011
The project never to be named. (No image due to legal reasons)
I am a Scottish artist who has enjoyed a varied career. I graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1993, and worked as a bouncer, a chef, a stonemason and a blacksmith before returning to art in 1999 to set up Perfect Circle, a commercial fine art company. Perfect Circle ran for 15 years, alongside Maryhill Art School which I set up with two other tutors. At the same time I set up and ran Strange Frames, a bespoke framing company. I spent 15 years collaborating with my hero, the Scottish artist and writer Alasdair Gray on his visual work and public projects. I’ve also worked for Oscar winning film designers, made huge mosaics, and acted as the arts consultant for infrastructure projects. I now live in the countryside working from a studio that I built during lockdown, and painting the Scottish landscape among other passions.
Paintings for the Piersland House hotel.
The Indigo Hotel. A bespoke series of artworks for the new Indigo Hotel in Glasgow. A series of murals, curated artworks and commissioned photography for the initimable Maurice Taylor.
The Fleck backdrop for the Edinburgh book festival. Alasdair was asked to create a closing event for the 2011 the Edinburgh book festival. His proposal was to have some of his friends read his play “Fleck” (his version of Goethe’s Faust) which had at this point not been performed. This
A painting for the Interior Minister of Kuwait.
Painting the Eastern Gable with Alasdair Gray.
Photocollage murals for EKGTA in East Kilbride.
Artworks for the fourth iteration of The Corinthian Club, Glasgow. Including the victorian mosaic for the Bootleg Bar in tandem with Graven Images.
Moved into the Lochburn Road studio, established the Strange Frames studio and the Maryhill Art School.
Maryhill Art School. A small independent art school set up by Cynthia Bowles, Martin MacInally and Nichol Wheatley. It was a great wee art school which had about 450 students at it’s peak. It was dedicated to traditional drawing and painting skills.
The Tam o’Shanter cycle of murals at Òran Mór.
Painting the ceiling of the auditiorium at Òran Mór for Alasdair Gray.
Manufacturing the Hillhead Subway Mural for Alasdair Gray, which was based on one of Nichol Wheatley’s drawings.
Ceiling of St Aloysious – in conjunction with Page and Park.
Portrait of David Dunbar – President of the Royal Incorporation of Architects Scotland.
Murals for set of Trainspotting 2.
Concept Artist for Outlaw King, the largest film production to date in Scotland.
