This week I’m heading down to London to OSMAN’S XMAS BAZAAR at Studio 1.1 in Shoreditch which opens Thursday 5th Dec. 6-9pm and is part of Whitechapel Gallery First Thursdays. My paintings The Privilege of Memory and Olley, Olley, Oxen Free are being exhibited along with work by 11 other artists as well as this year’s Bazaar artists Joshua and Emma RAFFELL . My fellow Scottish exhibitor and pal Olivia Irvine (who’s work Cabin is also in the show) and I are travelling down for the PV on Thursday night. I hope to see London pals for some arty festive cheer!

Deep Space 3 – 26 March Studio 1.1, 57a Redchurch St London E2 7DJ Private View Thursday 2 March 6 – 9pm “We must be shown only enough to know that there is more, and to want that ‘more’ not to be disclosed. A prime agency of disclosure is the cut, which divides one shot from the next. The cut guarantees that both the preceding and the subsequent shots will function as structuring absences to the present shot. These absences make possible a signifying ensemble, convert one shot into a signifier of the next one, and the signified of the…