Guerilla Autistics Year 10 - Eccentrics Assemble!

 Teaser and poster art for Paul Wady's upcoming Edinburgh Fringe show and beyond.

 

Vivienne Westwood.

 

Terry Hall.

  

 

19 March 1959 – 18 December 2022.

 

The 47.

On 1st November, 47 pairs of shoes were placed on the Glasgow Concert Hall steps: one for each person who died street homeless in the city last year.

After the installations I did alongside Glasgow museums regarding homelessness previously (here and here) I felt that I couldn't let this pass without producing something to remember them by.

No reason other than I wanted to.

 And you can read about the (Invisible) Glasgow project here.

 

Peter Fonda.

"Yeah, I'm hip about time. But I just gotta go."

RiP Peter Fonda.

 

Can You See Me?

A portrait project featuring clients and staff of the Glasgow City Mission partially inspired by the groups reaction to Alasdair Gray's portrait of Frances Gordon who was working as a temporary typist for Glasgow museums in 1977.

Unlike traditional portrait projects tho' there are no faces, no representation of the person beyond the images showing their interests.

I was given a list of five things they enjoyed/were important to them and had to figure out how it all fitted together as a coherent piece.

The idea being that traditional portraits are label forming and labels can have negative connotations.

As an aside there's a piece here about the process of creating the work with reference to art, empathy and Autism which you may find interesting.

Or not.

Aldo Moro.

Italian Prime Minister, kidnapped and killed by the Red Brigades in 1978.

Commission for the Cine-Excess documentary That’s La Morte.

Always Punch Nazis.

Various pages for the American charity comic compilation Always Punch Nazis. All profits to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The project also caused Kickstarter to become unionized which was pretty cool, if unexpected.

Read the full story here.

Mark Edward Smith.

 

A quick tribute to the lead singer and lyricist of the post-punk group The Fall.

Get Ken.

Work in progress....

It seems that at one point Ken Russell had written a screenplay about Tesla and traveled to Serbia to meet with someone dubious who was putting up all the money. Unfortunately, the President/Prime Minister of Serbia got assassinated, and Ken was stopped at the airport on the way out as the suspected assassin since his passport was out of date....Well that's my next project sorted.

Glasgow Refugee Project.

Artwork for an open museums installation exploring the lives of refugees in Glasgow plus finished pieces.

Originally envisaged as a series of posters - much like the kind of gig poster you'd find adorning every 80s shopfront - the work was first shown in The St Enoch Centre in Glasgow before being put on a huge banner to be displayed at GoMA and then toured for 6 weeks around various points in the city.

There's more about the project here.

Entertaining Mr. Orton.

Remembering the English playwright and author 50 years after his death.