Following my recent post on my trip to Nuart, I have now put together a page with some of the urban art I found while out and about, this should bring to a close my section on Aberdeen. The page can be accessed here.
However, I did take quite a lot of photographs of the ceramic and glass work done by Carrie Reichardt and Shelagh Swanson, so watch this space as I may add a page covering their work soon.
When I said I was going to Aberdeen, I was told to look out for the Doors, I thought they were talking about a Jim Morrison tribute band until I got there and seen the Doors for myself. Have a look at my Doors page to see what it’s all about.
I spent a wee bit of time this afternoon, going through my photographs from Aberdeen and I have now posted ones from Nuart 2017 & Nuart 2018, they can be seen by clicking on the links below. I will post photographs of the Painted Doors and from the local scene soon
I returned from Aberdeen yesterday where I had a fabulous weekend at Nuart 2019, I met some great people and saw some wonderful art. I have now added a new section to the site to cover what is happening in the city, so far I have only added content for Nuart 2019, the other areas will be added later.
As I am still in training for the Kilt Walk on the 28th, I decided to do a bit of walking today. I started off in Commerce Street for a Physio Appointment then headed off to the Old Toll Bar at Paisley Road West, I managed to meet up with Rogue-One and we had a rare old blether, and I got a sneak preview of his current work in the downstairs function room, so far he has finished James McAvoy, Mark McManus and Gerry Rafferty and he was putting the finishing touches to Billy Connolly while I was there. They all look fabulous, with tremendous attention to detail, and I was told that there are more to come on the other walls in the room, I can’t wait to see the room finished.
While there I was impressed by the friendly staff and the range of good beers on tap, I had a great pint of stout to send me on my way.
Leaving the bar, I continued walking along Paisley Road finishing off in Govan hoping to take the ferry to the Riverside Museum but it wasn’t running so I had to walk back to the Science Centre and crossed the river there. Lunch in SWG3 then back into town before a pint in the Raven before home. 16k was my final tally so I think I should be OK for the Kilt Walk.
I had to visit the homebrew shop in Whiteinch for supplies, so I nipped into SWG3 while I was in the area, the place was busy with loads of metalheads there for the Lords of the Land festival, lots of long hair, leather and torn jeans, and bands I have never heard of, from what I could hear, it was pretty loud music!
It was good to see some new artwork in the yard, I was pleased to see that Mark Worst has finished the portrait I spotted him starting in January, noticed that Scent is developing his skills and a lot of good work by EJEK with AERS, SMUG amongst others. It looks like they are gearing up for this year’s Yardworks in May.
I had a busy day yesterday, I originally headed into town to take a dip into volunteering at the International Swimming Centre at Tollcross, my shift was cancelled so I returned to the city centre, where I had a chance meeting with Smug, who was doing a commission piece in Millar Street. I’m really looking forward to seeing him again at Nuart in Aberdeen in April.
After visiting the Dippy on Tour exhibition in Kelvingrove (well worth a visit), I dropped in on SWG3 before heading back into town for a pre-arranged tour of the Trades House in Glassford Street, this is a very interesting place with loads of the history of Glasgow. I was there with a group of friends who were receiving an award from The Commonweal Fund.
During my day out I found some new street art, one by a guy called Plague Fisher (aka Craig Fisher) called Glasgow Kiss, which is just a pair of love dolphins, on the side of the BrewDog pub opposite Kelvingrove.
I decided to head down to Paisley this morning to see Mark Worst’s latest piece of work. I was very impressed with the painting of his mate Scott. It’s in a little ‘garden’ area next to Leisureland on the High Street, some may remember his mural with a fox on the same wall.
Walking along Paisley High Street towards Leisureland, I noticed that the Little Book Transfer murals are still there on the empty shops, they can be seen on the LBT page here.
While I was on the Paisley Road I stopped off at the Pacitti Community Gardens to see Rogue-One’s latest work. This spectacular piece attracted plenty of media interest, it was on the front page of the Scotsman, in the Evening Times on Tuesday 19th March and The Metro even covered the story, well earned praise indeed. Also on Paisley Road West is another nice community mural created by Rogue-One and EJEK using a design created by the local school pupils, as you can see, there was bright sunlight when I took this image, I’ll return later and get a better shot.
I will add all these images into the relevant pages in The Artists section.
I was in Glasgow on Saturday and was in Howard Street where I saw the 2 murals advertising the Euro Hostel on Clyde Street, there is no indication of whose work it is, can anyone identify who did it.
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Following on from my International Woman’s Day post, I was reminded that World Book Day was last Thursday (7th March) so as it was a nice sunny day and as I had to pop up to Glenrothes for a meeting with an old work colleague I decided to hunt out some books on walls, rather than indoors in libraries, and I wasn’t disappointed.
I hunted out two created by Rogue One to celebrate World Book Day in 2013, the first was in Buckhaven in Fife, where his mate EJEK lent a hand, the other one I found on the library in Bonnybridge.
You can see how the Buckhaven Mural was created in this video and the Bonnybridge Mural in this video.
While in the Fife area, I discovered work by a local Fife artist Kerry Wilson, a large mural in Cowdenbeath depicting the areas link to mining and some fun pieces on a couple of Glenrothes’ underpasses.
Watch the Cowdenbeath Mural creation here.
It was quite fortunate to finish off in Bonnybridge as I was able to visit my niece Lesley, who lives there, for a coffee and a blether before heading home, it was great to meet up with her and her family and to catch up with all the latest news.
Jim's travels 