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The small object felt heavy and cool in his palm. From what he’d glimpsed between his normal conversations on Norfolk parishes and the role of the English church in Egypt it might be a beetle of some kind. If it was, he knew the type, having seen similar artefacts in the museum back home: a jewel of topaz. The thing now was for the bishop Badger to extract himself before any suspicion could be aroused.

“…It’s splendid what you’ve done, yes.”
He cut off the squat man in khaki shorts who was mid explanation of a large chariot wheel to their right.
“Well...”
The man started, sweat dripping down his forehead despite the cool of the tomb.

But Badger had already caught the eye of a suited man close to the exit (or entrance) of the burial chamber. He did not in fact talk to this new man but veered left past a larger elongated wooden horse, or was it a dog? He made it to the 16 steps and feeling the heat increase on each one started his assent to the valley above.

It was only later, in the passenger seat of the Army jeep headed back to Cairo and his post as the chaplain of the barracks that he checked his pocket. The men were distracted, cricket on the radio, talking boisteriously. The Bishop’s eyes bulged. It was not a jewelled beetle at all but a real scarab still slightly twitching in it’s death throws.


Education:
The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Painting and Printmaking Undergraduate, 2023-2027
The Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, Exchange, 2025

Exhibitions:
‘maybe something small?’ group show, the A.C.A (Attic for Contemporary Art), Glasgow, 2026
‘Tomb Maps’ solo show, the Lab Gallery, Glasgow 2026
‘Super Bad’ group show, Saltspace Gallery, Glasgow 2026
‘Whereas my Eyes Rest on the Ground’ group show, Saltspace Gallery, Glasgow 2026
‘Before my Eyes Rest on the Ground’ group show, Kelvin Walkway, Glasgow 2026
‘Where the light does not shed’ group show and Concert, Viktoria Gallery, Vienna 2026
‘What brings me joy’ group show, Glenside Hospital Museum, Bristol 2025-2026
‘This Show Has No Art’ group show, Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, New York 2025
‘Constellations’ group show, the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York 2025
‘When Winds Shift' group show, New Glasgow Society 2025
‘Half Time’ Reid gallery, Glasgow 2025
‘Interference’ cross Atlantic group show, Stow cafe, Glasgow, CalArts, L.A 2024
‘A Letter from Renfrew Street’ group show, Stow building, Glasgow 2024
‘Night Shift’ group show, New Glasgow Society 2024
‘Nighttime Reflections’ Kelvin bridge walkway, Glasgow 2023
‘FLUXUS’ group show, New Glasgow Society 2023

       

Performances and Projects
Walking Theatre, Strange fields, Glasgow 2026
Iron Age Hill Forts lessons, the Facing History middle School, Hells kitchen, New York 2025
First Strokes shadow puppet play, the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York 2025
Wanderer Dependant, Bolsena, Italy 2025
‘Filo Acantilado’ collaborative performance ft. Chamaco Chamuco, Sighthill park, Glasgow 2025
Public Diners, portable mural commission for Nourish Scotland, Scotland (various locations) 2025
‘Interference’ interactive performance, Stow cafe, Glasgow, 2024
Book of days research, Girton College special collections, 2026
Medieval religion research, Wisque monastery, Northern France, 2024
Medieval walks spatially engaged research, Northern France, 2024

Publications:
Lab Gallery website and instagram, 2026, ‘Tomb Maps’ review by Meg Voce
The Skinny June Issue 2026: ‘DIY Darlings’ Exhibition review of ‘Whereas my eyes rest on the ground’, page 24
ISIS MT24 Issue 1918, 2024, Oxford University, Oxford, December 2024: Featured Artwork ‘Memory of a Canoe Trip in Oxford’ page 47
COPY_MAGAZINE: Issue 2, Glasgow, 2025: illustrated guide to hitchhiking for artists, page 1
COPY_MAGAZINE: Issue 1, Glasgow, 2024: article on the benefits of life drawing for students in art schools, page 3
GUM (Glasgow University Magazine) 2024-2025: Illustrator for political articles