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Edinburgh Zine Fest 2024 – Sunday 11 February 2024

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I will be taking part in Edinburgh Zine Fest 2024 on Sunday 11 February 2024. The event will take place at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh. This will be my third time tabling at this zine fest and it is one of the best. I have no new zines on sale, but I will be selling some old ones that I have not had on my table in a few years. I will have copies of my How To Deal With Rejection series . There are 3 issues in total and info on these are below. Edinburgh Zine Fest will be my first event of 2024.

How To Deal With Rejection – Issue 1

How To Deal With Rejection – Issue 2

How To Deal With Rejection – Issue 3

Website Updates

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I have been updating the pages on this website. The information on the events and exhibitions pages have been updated and some of the pages throughout the site have been redesigned. I run this website next to my portfolio site, which also highlights my animation and other artwork. On the Do It Theatre site I mainly focus on my performance installations and my zine work. In the past few years I have mostly been concentrating on my animation work and this will continue for the start of 2024. Later in the year I plan on releasing more zines and the result of a Creative Scotland funding opportunity. This is a series of zines that look at physical space and environments, when you are autistic.

My short film Coming Out Autistic screened widely in 2023 and there are more screenings lines up for 2024. For 2024 I plan on taking part in several zine and comic cons. I will post more about this later.

Self Sabotage – New Comic

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Self Sabotage is a 28 page (mostly) black and white comic book zine that looks at the topic of mental health, success, creativity, community and what it means to be an artist. The comic will appeal to readers of Graphic Memoirs, Graphic Medicine and Perzines.

You can buy the comic here.

The story follows the creator of the comic as they discover what it means to be successful and if their own actions and mental health ruin their enjoyment of finding success. The idea of community and networking is explored in a visually exciting and experimental way. Some of the pages are ripped and destroyed. This presents the theme of self sabotage in an interesting and original method.

Self Sabotage will also appeal to people who like zines, perzines, queer zines and outsider art.

  • 28 pages
  • Black and white (mostly)
  • Hand bound and stapled
  • Made with love and honesty.

Zines Saved My Life – New Comic

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Zines Saved My Life is a 28-page comic book about zines. It explores mental health in a visual and exciting method that shows how important zines, art and communication are. The comic is personal and intimate and follows the comic creator as they look at what zines and DIY art means to them. It is mainly in black and white, but also uses bursts of colour to fully expression the emotion and themes. Zines Saved My Life is personal and expressive and will connect with readers who love zines, comics and outsider art. 
Zines Saved My Life will appeal to people who like zines, perzines, queer zines and comics, graphic memoirs and graphic medicine comics. 

28 pages
Black and white (mostly)
Hand bound and stapled
Made with love and honesty

The comic can be bought here

Or a PDF can be downloaded below for free.

Zines Saved My Life.pdfDownload

Awkward Silence – New Comic

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Awkward Silence is a personal comic book that looks at quietness and solitude in a loud world. The story follows the creator as they look at how loudness and quietness has affected them and changed how they communicate with other people and their environment. Being mute and not being able to speak has many implications and these are delicately presented in this intimate and experimental comic book memoir.

Awkward Silence is personal and expressive and will connect with readers who love zines, comics and outsider art.
Each copy is unique. The cover features hand stitching, where each individual copy has been sewn and hand bound.

Awkward Silence will appeal to people who like zines, perzines, queer zines and comics, graphic memoirs and graphic medicine comics.

  • 32 pages
  • Black and white (mostly)
  • Hand bound and stapled
  • Made with love and honesty.

The comic can be bought here

Or a PDF can be downloaded below for free.

Awkward Silence.pdfDownload

New Zine – Misremembering Sarah Kane

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I have a new zine for sale!

Misremembering Sarah Kane Through My Own Suicide Attempts is a comic book zine about my own experiences with mental health, suicide and self harm. The zine features text, essays and comics. It is an abstract retelling of how I confuse my memories with my experiences of watching and reading plays by the cult 1990’s playwright Sarah Kane. I use comic books as a means to discuss being a suicide survivor and how this can affect memory and personal experiences.

Sarah Kane (3 February 1971 – 20 February 1999) was an English playwright who is known for her plays that deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture—both physical and psychological—and death.

The zine is –
Full colour
40 pages
Staple bound
and Awesome

You can buy the zine here –

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/709565236/misremembering-sarah-kane-through-my-own?ref=shop_home_active_1

 

 

Letters We Leave Behind

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In late 2016 I was awarded a residency from the National Theatre of Scotland as part for their Starter for Ten scheme.  During the residency I created the framework for a new Private Play involving puppetry. The title of this show is Letters We Leave Behind. It is still a work in progress and is a special show involving 5 puppets that the audience member will manipulate. The puppet in turn will give a letter to the participant that the audience member can read. There will be five letters (one for each puppet) and they tell the story from the show. Letters We Leave Behind will be completed in early 2018.

Video from residency

Images from residency

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Development Images

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Love.Stop.Repeat at Papergirl Bristol

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There will be an exhibition  of some of our Love.Stop.Repeat zines at the Papergirl Bristol event. The Zines will then get handed out to the public by volunteers who cycle around the city on bikes. This is part of the Papergirl network of art events around the world. Papergirl events will allow people to enjoy Love.Stop.Repeat in setting far from the exhibition space.
The event will happen later in the year and we will post of more information when we have it.