About the work

A drawing of one of my favourite buildings in Glasgow, the so-called Red Hackle building on Otago street. ( Red Hackle was a budget whisky and for a long time they owned the building and a ghostly billboard sign on the table end wall can still be made out.)
It’s wonderfully wonky, humanely higgledy-piggedly and seems to have been made by builders without a spirit level. Something Germanic about the roof. I lived less than 200 yards from this building for 17 years and passed it many times a day. The more I saw it the more I loved it. Until very recently two older guys ran a garage in the bottom where they would tinker away all day, often on a Chevrolet pick up truck that belonged to one of them.

Date and country of birth

1969, GB

Career Highlights

What made you stop here?, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, 2023-24;
Never a joiner, Ingleby, Edinburgh, 2023;
If you see something that doesn’t look right, Modern Art, London, 2022; Waiting for the Bell, Karma, New York 2021;
But the dream had no sound, Ingleby, Edinburgh, 2018;
If I was a Carpenter and other stories, Wilkinson Gallery, London, 2017;
The Arts Foundation fellowship, 2014
Collections: Tate Gallery, UK; SNGMA, Edinburgh; LACMA, Los Angeles; CCA, Miami, Pinault collection, Paris; Loewe Collection; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; George Economou Collection; Hall Art Foundation, Massachusetts;
MAXXI Museum, Rome,