The world is beautiful
All material used in this short film, apart from archive footage of my children, was taken by Peter on a visit to Glasgow on Monday 9th December 2019. Music Credit: … Continue reading The world is beautiful
Category: Two cultures
‘An artist devoted to challenging injustice’
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is currently showing an exhibition of the work of Paula Rego. I am hoping to go next week.
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On the front page of today’s Scotsman.
‘A dollop of Caledonian Antisyzygy’
This was how Alex Bell began his Opinion Piece in The Courier of the 5th December 2019. Caledonian Antisyzygy may be a term that is not much heard but I … Continue reading ‘A dollop of Caledonian Antisyzygy’
Lecture in progress
The ‘Lecture in Progress’ sign that features in this film was only illuminated whilst we, as medical students, waited outside the Anatomy Department of Marischal College, Aberdeen. Musical credits: … Continue reading Lecture in progress
‘The Wall’
I have just read ‘The Wall’ – a novel by John Lanchester. As a warning of a dystopian future it is most unsettling.
“F—ing mad ballistic he was a man needing a lobotomy”
This is my latest short film:
What can Art do today?
This film begins with the voice of Antony Gormley. The music track is ‘Fortune’ by Wye Oak [I do not have copyright] This film is dedicated to Lesley Winton
Responses
This short film is almost ten years old [the text for it is provided below]: All the responses to my films have been different and this is to be celebrated. … Continue reading Responses
Douglas Support
In the centre of Scotland, major motorway improvements to the M8, M73 and M74 have recently been completed. As a result, a lowland glen, and the historic estate once known … Continue reading Douglas Support
‘Why . . . I garden’
In the current BMJ, Peter Brennan explains ‘why . . . I garden’.
Great Bicycle Races at Cambridge
I recently came across the above portrait in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. It is a portrait that stopped me, I think because of the young man’s vivid … Continue reading Great Bicycle Races at Cambridge