Artist Research

Nick Hedges Photography proved to be of great value to the project. He was a new find for me and a brilliant photographer that campaigned for the homeless with shelter through 68-72. These are both from a series he done in Glasgow during this time. His work was a great find.

Oscar Marzoroli was a photographer whose work was already known to me. A fantastic series of images done all in Glasgow where he grew up, incredibly capturing the spirit of 60's/70's Glasgow and its Urban Refurbishment. His work has always been important to me, heavily featured in any textbook, documentary or book about Glasgow's history.

Tim Mara as far as I can tell is an artist who, working mainly in screen prints, cuts in his work with photography through taking photographs from a single point with a tripod set-up. He then over time changes the scene of what that camera is looking at by putting up and taking down wallpapered plaster board and moving furniture and models in and out of shot. By rasterizing these images to a complete black and white and taking opaques of them, he can then rework them to create a new perspective. This method has long fascinated me, a huge influence on the work for this project.

Before the lockdown, still in Manchester I had a chance to get along to the Whitworth Art Gallery to see an incredible exhibition of wallpapers made from around 1830-1920, at a guess, which had been made through the process of cutting woodblocks and they really were incredible. The top image is one from the exhibition.

Noise and Smoky Breath is a book of Glasgow poems ranging from the early 1900's to 1980. Some really fantastic poems in their coupled with images from around the time of their making. Lovely illustration work and photography. The cover done by Allasdair Gray another Local Hero and some of Oscar Marzorolis photography inside. 

Adam McNaughtans, The Words That I Used To Know. This is a CD of a Glaswegian Poet/Folk Musician. It contains some great songs that really paint an image. This is the album I took the poem that inspired my book from 'Ludgin Wi' Big Aggie'. The album is largely documenting the changing Glasgow that Mr. McNaughtan has seen in his lifetime. An ex English teacher from Rutherglen Academy. Which is now gone under Urban development.