The Glasgow School of Art, Stow Building, Glasgow
May 31st - June 12th 2022
I’m not sure I’ve ever known myself and I’m not sure I’ve found a place to belong. I come from two small towns in the north of Scotland and grew up somewhere in between. When I was young, small-town mentalities forced a façade of fear and second-guessing to form an impenetrable wall, separating me from exploring my identity. Eventually, I moved away to the city, but I felt then as if I were missing out on a life and a community that the rose-tinted lens of social media had conditioned me to believe was promised. And now, for some incomprehensible reason, I find myself to be homesick for an imagined past...
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![Sissydom](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/695780cc-a2ab-426d-8e44-ff20ac44eea5/aff432f6-08fa-4c54-93c9-76e57ce2f61c_rw_3840.jpg?h=6e01c5673615219607d57663da1786ad)
Sissydom
![Quiet Desperation in a Sad Gay World](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/695780cc-a2ab-426d-8e44-ff20ac44eea5/c664e746-d160-4d03-b4e9-07fae04d190f_rw_3840.jpg?h=edbfe0ca6b566168e531e06058f6f832)
Quiet Desperation in a Sad Gay World
![Try it Once. Try it Twice. (Sodomite)](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/695780cc-a2ab-426d-8e44-ff20ac44eea5/18960c9c-bfba-4eaf-9b07-a2247c12dd8b_rw_3840.jpg?h=496ccc68bcfe0ddd796508291f801267)
Try it Once. Try it Twice. (Sodomite)
![Slain (by the Irises)](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/695780cc-a2ab-426d-8e44-ff20ac44eea5/115a2732-9f0b-4c3f-9885-354a747bd22e_rw_3840.jpg?h=5ae3f73e3fbbaf42bf4905739f3311f9)
Slain (by the Irises)
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![The Uninvited Guest](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/695780cc-a2ab-426d-8e44-ff20ac44eea5/838f65a7-5eae-4d98-953b-d037ee80777a_rw_3840.jpg?h=2e198325b114b854544176167d3dbf3d)
The Uninvited Guest
![Crystal Blue, in my head](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/695780cc-a2ab-426d-8e44-ff20ac44eea5/474a5d4a-cbde-4fb8-8b2e-f4cbef53f52b_rw_3840.jpg?h=8f70e4df942181cf38f1bc8b806c4d32)
Crystal Blue, in my head
![Everything was beautiful... because I was with you...](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/695780cc-a2ab-426d-8e44-ff20ac44eea5/6c8279f6-3ecd-4d82-9007-ae3dfebe7b4c_rw_1920.jpg?h=8b9f9ecc2fcd926657f83c749c0546b4)
Everything was beautiful... because I was with you...
![Butterflies, now all dead](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/695780cc-a2ab-426d-8e44-ff20ac44eea5/768afbfc-6422-4c4d-9c80-62848735c009_rw_3840.jpg?h=1503cc3b94313a34c3e9999912299491)
Butterflies, now all dead
"I’m somewhat of a hoarder (of objects, images, and memories) and my recent work has become an amalgamation of personal experience, online culture, and art history collaged together in paint. I draw mostly unrelated moments together and try to imagine narratives emerging. These narratives spiral into each other across large-scale oil paintings, smaller acrylic pieces and artist book works. In the paintings, unknown boys from social media morph into companions and grow their own identities, landscapes from the place I call home become twisted and uncanny, and my identity becomes appropriated through self-design and imitation. Ultimately, I see my recent work as an attempt to start unraveling the mess I have created myself within."