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Something I really like is really quick, off-the-cuff drawings
that you then blow up really big.
Just a wee doodley sketch;
not supposed to represent anything in particular
maybe it does... deep down, you know?
Weíre using this derelict space to encourage people to come in
to start thinking about what the new portrait gallery could be.
It probably is a culture shock because of the fact
of it being the Portrait Gallery
and weíre having a graffiti exhibition in the Portrait Gallery.
Now we just basically have bought loads of cleaning products today
and tried them see which ones react to UV.
We tried powdered bleaches, like Daz
and that works a little bit but itís mixed in with
loads of other crap that we donít want.
We thought that Scotland was notorious for...
bad health.
So we wanted to, kind of, be able to pick out the key points
of the bad health, with the UV.
So that when we switch the light on people will see it,
but when we switch the light off, theyíll not be able to see it.
So they might just catch it for a second.
Weíve got the triangles in black pointed to the heart,
where he had his heart attack.
When the UVís on that, the black squares help suggest what it is.
I donít visit galleries very often.
I donít come to browse the collection weekly.
Itís not something I need for my work process.
Iím much more interested in the kind of things I come across in quirky corners;
much more likely to be like a little postcard I find somewhere
where the ideas come from and not from other great works of art.
Thatís not my
inspiration.
This is the one that I felt was the most relevant.
Theyíre schemie-centaurs!
Theyíre like loads of guys that hang around outside my house.
Because their heroic mythical creatures,
thereís a weight to it and a historical element to it,
so I thought that it was relevant to this project.
I did just look up little gangs, I think,
from Edinburgh and Glasgow that have made their own websites,
and theyíve all got their fingers up and sort of...
little bottle of Buckfast in the other hand, and stuff.
Honestly, like dozens and dozens of photos...
and they fitted so easily onto the ponies,
standing in their little gangs as well.
These are words that weíve canvassed the public for;
weíve asked people from other faiths,
atheists, agnostics, everybody on their opinion,
well, asking the question ëwho is Jesusí in terms of Scotland,
effectively.
Iím going to keep the hoodie in it!
I donít know whatís going on really.
Iím just going to have certain figures and theyíll go up somewhere and...
Weíre going to be painting over the top of each other and under each other...
ëcause normally youíd come along,
in the street anyway, and youíd just go,
ëhereís my thingí and thereís an existing set up,
and thatís the spot for it, whereas everybodyís trying to do it at once.
Paint right over it!
A whole, kind of, installation space - much like the murals.
It wonít be wildly deferent, but at least weíll try...
I got these things; itís like an aerosol,
but not with acrylic paints.
Last week there was a guy from New York died prematurely
because of all of the lead heíd consumed when he was a teenager,
ëcause old spray-paint used to have lead in it - so,
he looked about double his age!
Itís for spraying silk - itís ëfun pump.í
I just throw these guys that look, like fighter pilots from the 1940ís
well, they wear fighter pilot hats.
The space boy character, heís a lost Scottish boy, aye!
Thatís what he is; thatís exactly what he is,
thatís the best way to describe him and leave the rest to
the situations you find him in...
He becomes like a sort of stock character
that can explore a narrative, or a witness.
My Aunty Kate was killed when she was five
and my Great Aunt Jean wanted to
put my grandmother in touch with her dead daughter.
My Great Aunty had two portraits in her house
and one was of Catherine and one was of this Indian spirit guide
you know that kind of really Victorian idea.
We started calling them Buffalo Girls.
Thereíll be slightly skewed, slightly warped,
fantasized versions of Scottish history.
The not so heroic figures of the nation.
Thereís kind of trying to be a reflection of Scottish society...
Sheís Scottish through and through!
...and the idea of what Scotland is -
or people come from and
who populates this country.