The Lonely Piper

The Lonely Piper has been my artistic nom de plume for ten years now, and has been aptly described by Dr.Neil Mulholland in Frieze as 'a neo-romantic semblance whose perception is altered by the landscape in principally profane ways'. He's a solitudinous soul, supernaturalist and ancient provocateur, romantically entwined with the rugged grandeur of his spiritual environs, pondering and wandering and venturing back and forth beyond the Scotch mist veil. His physical age is 33, metaphysically however his vital essence is older than myth. An artist informed by the geographical and cultural landscape, and fictitious and fact based Caledonian narratives. Deriving inspiration and vital insight from the tireless and non-technological web-making endeavours of his own metaphorical cave dwelling spider, albeit an arachnid offshoot of The Lonely Piper's psyche, who weaves poetic verse-lets and cryptic narrational starting points in high tensile threads of text. A form of inspiration personified in silk by the artist's own eight-legged thought process; a spinner of linguistics which are in a sense stronger than steel. Transported creatively and without fail by the all pervading summer sweet scent of his Bog-Myrtle muse, the olfactory Princess of The Lonely Piper's realm of the senses. Oft guided by elemental forces, he's a man of the future, of the past and of the present, with a third eye for the ladies only when bequeathed with a second wind of the second sight, before it departs like drunkenness and leaves him with a seer head in the morning. During the summer months he is also prone to the romantic malady of heather pollen lung when he sometimes wishes he could shrink to a size diminutive so's he could hug a midge. ............................................................ .......................................... for further bits of writing please visit the following sites. Visit www.davidshrigley.com (a quite wonderful artist's website, which features a comprehensive cross-section of his extensive oeuvre) and click on 'texts' for a piece I wrote about him entitled 'From a Macclesfield of Dreams' which was commissioned for the big lad's solo show at Dundee Contemporary Arts in 2006/7. Visit yucknyum.com (a Dundee Artzine's online vault) for a piece I wrote about my friend Neil and Tony Wilson, it's part celebration, part obituary and recounts the time Tony texted my friend Neil whilst the latter was sat on my couch, it's entitled 'FAC 358 Perth Road, Dundee'. I've also written recent press releases for the mighty Django Django (debut 7-inch soon to be released by Shadazz on the 15th June 2009) x, and for De-Fence records (Seven Sang and Love.Stop.Repeat) thanks OnTheFly. Also please see www.YOUNGATHENIANS.CO.UK (a web-site designed by the quite marvellous tommy grace) for a bit of writing I did entitled 'The Sand Blasted Pillars Of A Sandstone Community' for the group show 'The Young Athenians', which originated in Edinburgh at the Royal Scottish Academy in 2006 and then ended up touring to the first Athens Biennale in late 2007.