thomson & craighead

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thomson & craighead: www.thomson-craighead.net / Making art in someone else's world. also @jonandali on IG and @jonandali@mastodon.scot

A self portrait by Andrew heard. A blue strip along the top of the square canvas with a yellow cartoonish head floating in the middle. Two line drawing of a sitting male figure are in the bottom left and right with text
Two slices of pizza on a white plate seen from above
Lots of wild garlic leaves in a silver bowl on a table with Swedish geometric design table cloth. Aerial view
A plastic troll on a shelf with a Santa hat on with lanterns behind a brass plate on the right side and a photograph of a saint on the left
White paper Christmas paper wheels strung up above with lights and with dried orange slices in between.
A glass kimchi jar with a red top packed full of red cabbage sauerkraut. White tiles behind the jar
A variation on Duchamp's defaced mona lisa where the letters along the bottom now read, 'LGBTQ+
A black and white drawing of three distorted cubes with a snaking linear ribbon variously tracing a path around and over these images of cuboids. The entire drawing made using a manual typewriter
An esoteric painting by ithell Colquhoun -three disks with interconnecting strands seemingly floating in a landscape of a hillside horizon with a dusk or dawn sky to the right
A gravel path, heather either side. A very long view of the sea beyond, some islands and a tiny looking ferry heading towards the horizon in the distance
The rounded humps of a mountain silhouetted in the distance. Lochan and trees in the foreground. Cloudy sky with some blue. Strong light from a lowish sun
A beach in the Scottish Highlands at sunset. A few clouds, the low sun reflected by the incoming tide, a low hill line in the distance. Orange and pale blue
A calm reflective sea, boats, clouds and a blue sky paling towards the horizon. Hills in the background in silhouette but the furthest of them in sunshine as the sun slowly sets behind
Looking over a camping stove, pot, and a water bottle from inside the awning of a tent with grass, dunes, a glimpse of beach and the sea beyond. A pale blue sky with ribbons of cloud
A massive Spanish chestnut tree with two boughs broken off on the ground in front, already chopped up a bit by a tree surgeon earlier. More trees behind and blue sky and cloud above
A detail of a pile of logs photographed ends on. One end is sprayed orange with the word, 'larch' although it looks like, 'lurch'
Two pieces of an Indian snack called muthiya on a white plate with some crumbs around it. Seen in medium close up at an angle from above
Blackcurrants and some leaves in a sieve shot from above
Seen from behind, Tltwo women looking at a photographic light box at an exhibition opening with work either side of them
A photograph of a pebble in a black void. It looks a bit like a gas giant planet
A woman standing in front of the large carcass of a wooden boat beached with the tide out. In the Scottish Highlands west coast landscape
A blue bowl full of blackcurrants on a geometric patterned table cloth shot from above.
Mangetout plants flowering trained by bamboo canes seen slightly from above
A hill and some trees in sillouette on the far shore of a small lochan. The Sun behind the trees and a glowing blue white evening sky
Hills in the distance below a pale blue sky and hazy clouds. A rowan tree flanks the left side of the image, a silver birch flanks the right side. The very low sun casts a glow and shadows across the scene. It's around 22.45hrs near the summer solstice
A close up of a stack of garden herbs, fennel fronds, rocket, parsley, chives
A cardboard food tray with half eaten Indian street food snack on it called Pav Bhaji, some chutney, a red brown curry and a white soft bread roll. The curry is a little bit smeared into the adjacent food tray pockets. A wooden spoon is stick into the curry and exits the left side of the image
A large fishing vessel in harbour with hills behind, white clouds and a big blue sky
Two glass jars with red plastic lids and rubber valves in the top and packed with kimchi. Orange and white. A wooden board underneath and a defocused kitchen worktop in the background
A black and white photograph of a pebble made to look like an astronomical body in the void of deep space
Puffins on a cliff edge with the landforms of Fair Isle beyond and the sea and the horizon and steely grey sky
Pyramidal stacks poking up from a choppy sea with cliffs to the right, a hazy pale blue sky and further crags in the foreground on the left and the right. A gliding seagull is also caught in the relative foreground flying away from us.
A winding sunny lane. A bluesky, a few cotton wool clouds. Cliffs in the distance to the left and a gentle hill line to the middle and right. a few houses below the hill line. wooden fence posts either side of the road and a stone dykevon the right. grass lands
Sitting behind the pilot in a red life vest and big sound excluders on, we see the cockpit of a tiny plane on its final approach to the tiny island of Fair Isle -rocky cliffs and land forms, hazy sunshine, choppy seas
A small room in magnolia, notice boards and a table laden with leaflets. A man stands in front of two women seated against the wall with a glass screen above them. Suitcase and bag against the far wall. This is Tingwall airport on Shetland
A bunch of wild garlic on a grey work top photographed from above
A motorised wheelchair in front of two monochromatic painting/drawings. A polished wooden floor and white walls
Eight humans in a line in a large blue lit stage. You can pick out some of the audience in the darkness Infront and below. Blackness looms overhead
A trio of musicians (double bass, guitar, percussion) performing in a railway arch. Moody orange lighting and audience In foreground on folding chairs
A figure walking up a rocky hill with a sea loch and peninsula behind grey rolling clouds
Birch trees sillouetted by a glowing pink band of cloud above a dipping hill line. Rust red dead bracken in the foreground woodland
A grid of annotated tarot cards drawn by the artist Austin Osman Spare in a vitrine. The top two rows are a selection of major arcana cards. Yellow background with each illustration outlined and then coloured in. The bottom row are adapted playing cards acting as minor arcana where drawn elements continue across multiple cards
A harbour at dusk under a clear winter sky, the blue of above and below mirroring each other. A grass lawn runs down from the sash window that frames this view seen from the inside seemingly right down to the waters edge. Pinkness blushes close to the horizon
A lighthouse on grassy headland on a clear blue day with calm seas and a near cloudless sky. Rocks can be seen in the foreground and a tarmac lane on the left. You can't see if it runs down to the lighthouse but it almost certainly does
Intricate ice crystal patterns on a window with a sense of trees and hillsides in morning light beyond
A fox sits by a tree trunk on wood chips and grass in the university college London quadrangle. Windows and a few students sitting on a wall beyond
A homemade birthday card with a banana sweetie taped on in a way reminiscent of the artwork called Comedian by Maurizio Catalan in which a real banana is taped to a gallery wall
A screenshot of search engine results showing the search, 'please help me' in old style browser from 2001 on a Mac os 9 desktop. A bunch of windows are piled on top of each other and a pop up window showing adverts can be seen in the top left corner
An oval shaped Belgian waffle sits on a white plate. The waffle is branded with the sillouette outline of a couple appearing like a cameo in the centre of the biscuit
A photograph of a woman dressed in an Edwardian style has white lines drawn from her eyes to a card held in her right hand and propped up on a table next to her. It is an example of spirit photography from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century
the far shore of a loch in the snow. The water in the foreground is white with snow and the sky is white too
Red birches in the foreground, a cloud bank beyond and then the brow of a hill poking up above the cloud meeting a pale sky
Looking at the side of a bronze age fort in a clearing in the woods. Piles of a moss covered rocky bank and red dead bracken rise up to the left with forestry commission pine trees poking up behind and visible to the right. A pale steely sky
A bit of tree stump and some heather poking out of the flood water of a lochan in Scottish Highlands. Both a almost black sillouttes and are reflected in the mirror pond surface. Gentle ripples crinkle the mirror pond at the top of the image. Everything is steely grey and surrounding landscape is cropped away making what's left feel like a detail and a little abstract
Snowy hill lines in the north of Scotland at dawn. Three layers
A primary colorful Swedish table cloth behind a dark blue circular bowl filled with carrot and orange soup drizzled with pale tahini sauce and brown crispy chick peas. There is a stainless steel knife top right and a cup goes off screen top left
Two tarot cards. On the left is the world and on the right is the sun. The artwork is by Leonora Carrington and holds a feminist interpretation of the traditional elements
A bright moon shining in a partly cloudy sky on a lane reflecting the moonlight. A silloutted tree on the left and more trees on the right and a silloutted figure standing on the lane
The chariot card from the modern witch tarot. A woman on a motorbike holding a wand sat behind a black and white sphinx and wearing a leather jacket, a tunic with a white square and a laurel crown. The sky is yellow