Hung, Drawn, Quartered video

Many thanks to Jon Reid who shot and edited this - check http://www.myspace.com/mood_of_collapse for more of his excellent work.


Hung, Drawn, Quartered from MOC on Vimeo.

FICA Inaugural Show

'Monarch of all I survey' Craig Barrowman 2008 from craig barrowman on Vimeo.


Saturday 2nd Aug saw the inaugural show at Fittie Institute of Contemporary Art. Curator Monika Vykoukal invited me to make some new work for this excellent space in Footdee, Aberdeen. Here's some pics of the untitled installation, which consisted of a rotating cloud and miniature landscape.

whooooaaaaaa. i just been drinkin with my folks and my amazingly amazing fiance (we justs gots engaged) Now i'm heding out to the studio to make a sculpture for a show tomorrow at my friend mo's for the 2008 fittie fest extravaganza. its in the most coolest shed of ramshackleness and sunlight streaming through dusty old wood cracks. time seems to shrink with a mix of champagne and beer, but i'll have it done, by god. saturday 2nd of augustus from 1000 till late.....

Mood of Collaboration shed

Dropped in by John's for some beers and a little paintin' on his wee shed. It seems to get dark earlier way too fast after midsummer, ran out of light but mananged to make a start... more to come!















There were some noisy emanations from within the shed, here's John Cromar at work...

















Duncan, Allison and me. Dunc channels intense painting powers through his majestic 'stash...

It looks like I'll be collaborating with Brain Ross and Colin Robison on a giant mural/installation at Limousine Bull in Aberdeen sometime soon, maybe August. Sweet. In the meantime we'll be painting a shed next weekend at our buddy Jon's bbq (he made a stop motion film of our last mural/performance) - beer and paint is always a good combo.

Got a wee piece out on the street today, the first of a series of cardboard trees.

I'll be working soon with my crazy buddy and fellow Stray Dog David 'Big Dave' Downie on some interventionist-type projects along a stretch of canal in Falkirk. There are lots of cool victorian-era features along the canal paths such as this mysterious alcove...

The first linocut print from my super-expensive 'back-of-a-pudding-spoon' press. This is Brian, who didn't recognise himself when I showed it to him...

Here's a pic of the layout model for the public art commission which I didn't get in the end. Damn it.

It was a good project to work on though, and it was good to get the experience of presenting a proposal to a panel... hopefully I won't sweat so much next time!

A community art project I taught at a school in Aberdeen won an award! Check out the article, sadly no mention of my name but i did do it, honest guv!

Well, just finished the public painting project with Brian today. It was excellent fun - I totally recommend collaborating with other artists as a way to boost energy for your own work... It turned out to be a sweet, sunny day and a few friends stopped by to see what we were up to. It was done on found cardboard with old house paint and acrylic.

This pic shows the mural after we stopped (about 6 hours of work). I think I liked it a little better about 1-2 hours before this, but it was more about having fun and just being out painting on a sunny sunday. Luckily, our good friend Jon Reid recorded the whole process and is making a time-lapse film for us.