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Current Exhibition

Red Yellow and Blue: Five pictures

Sat 18 Mar - Sun 14 May 2023
Sat & Sun 11-4pm or by appointment

McFadyen opens his studio in London Fields, presenting for the first time together five recent paintings, including large-scale urban landscapes, along with figurative works.

Venue:
Grey Gallery at Jock McFadyen Studio
4 Helmsley Place, London Fields, London, E8 3SB

Please contact us for more info.

Exhibition

Tourist without a Guidebook

Sat 6 Feb — Sun 11 Apr 2022

Bringing together 20 works spanning almost 30 years, this free display in the Royal Academy of Arts' Weston Rooms explores Jock McFadyen’s fascination with London’s changing urban landscapes.

Venue:
Weston Rooms, Royal Academy of Art, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BD
Tues – Sun: 10am – 6pm
Free, no booking required.

Further details: royalacademy.org.uk

Exhibition

Jock McFadyen Goes to The Lowry:

A Retrospective

Sat 16 Oct - Sun 27 Feb 2022

Scottish artist, Jock McFadyen, displays a range of works spanning 45 years.

Venue:
Lowry Gallery, Pier 8, The Quays, Salford, M50 3AZ; Tue-Fri 11am-5pm; Sat-Sun 10am-5pm
Admittance is free.
Further details: thelowry.com

Interview

Stark Talk

31 Oct 2021

Edi Stark talks with Jock McFadyen on BBC Radio Scotland.

Length: 36:21 minutes

Exhibition

Lost Boat Party

Jock McFadyen

11 Jun - 25 Sep 2021

A major exhibition of over 20 large paintings at Scotland's Dovecot Studios, in partnership with The Scottish Gallery

Venue: Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh

Further details: dovecotstudios.com

In Conversation

Edi Stark Talks Art

with Jock McFadyen

12 August 2021

In this live, informal conversation, Stark delved into the consideration of landscape and environment that drives McFadyen’s work and his unique, unromanticised reflections on Scotland.

Further details:
dovecotstudios.com

Performance

Edinburgh Fringe Opening Event

Little Sparta & Lost Boat Party

6 August 2021

To celebrate the opening of the Edinburgh Festival 2021 Little Sparta performed live their latest album Lost Boat Party.

Further details:
dovecotstudios.com

Online Interview

Edinburgh Art Festival Launch Event

with Jock McFadyen & Simon Groom

31 Jul 2021

Dovecot celebrated the opening of the Edinburgh Art Festival 2021 with a live interview between artist Jock McFadyen RA and Simon Groom, Director of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Galleries of Scotland.

Further details:
dovecotstudios.com

Online Talk

Making The Mallaig Commission

with Jock McFadyen

30 Jun 2021

Discover all the behind the scenes insights of making the rug commission with Scottish Artist, Jock McFadyen.

Further details:
dovecotstudios.com

Online Talk

In Conversation

with Jock McFadyen

12 Jun 2021

Discover Jock’s approach to painting the contemporary landscape in this online conversation with Christina Jansen, Director of The Scottish Gallery.

Further details:
dovecotstudios.com

VIRTUAL TOUR

09 Jun 2021

Jock McFadyen Goes to the Pictures

Jock McFadyen

The Scottish Gallery presents a 360-degree virtual tour of Jock McFadyen Goes to the Pictures City Art Centre exhibition. Experience the Gallery in virtual reality.

Open Virtual Tour

COLLABORATION

09 Jun 2021

The Mallaig Commission

Jock McFadyen in collaboration with Dovecot Studios produced a major new artwork - The Mallaig Commission, a fine art textile.

Further details: dovecotstudios.com

Article

02 Nov 2020

Jock McFadyen: Significant Works

by Sue Hubbard

An article on the work of Jock McFadyen...

Little Sparta and Sally Timms

Lost Boat Party

New EP
Released 29 July 2020

Listen: bandcamp.com
Instagram: Instagram
Facebook: facebook.com

Print Sale

May 2020

Charity Fundraising Print Sale

Grey Gallery Covid-19 Artists’ Response

Grey Gallery artists donate 20% of sales to a charity of their choice.

Talk

'Black but Human'

Carmen Fracchia and Michael Ohajuru

A discussion, Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480 - 1700.

Thur 5 Dec 2019

Venue: Eleven Spitalfields, London

Exhibition

Seven Artists

Peter Abrahams, Greta Kirkwood Andresen, Miranda Argyle, Marc Atkins, Jock McFadyen RA, Liz Rideal, Covadonga Valdes

15 Nov - 8 Dec 2019

Venue: Eleven Spitalfields, London

A group exhibition. Over 50 works on display.

Music

29 Mar 2019

Mekons

Deserted

New album: CD, 12″ LP
Released 29 Mar 2019

Listen: deserted.bandcamp.com
Twitter: twitter.com
Facebook: facebook.com
bloodshotrecords.com

Exhibition

Jock McFadyen

Darkness and Light

24 Nov-3 Dec 2017

Venue: The Grey Gallery, London

Graphic works and new digital prints.

Music

May 2017

Waywords and Meansigns

Recreating Finnegans Wake

Little Sparta, with Sally Timms and Martin Billheimer, contribute to the 2017 release of Waywords and Meansigns.

Visit: waywordsandmeansigns.com

Music

Mekons

Mekonville

28 - 30 July 2017

Stonham Aspal, Pettaugh, England

The Mekons announce Mekonville Festival: A unique weekend festival in rural Suffolk.

Music

Mekons

15 Jul 2017

St John on Bethnal Green London

An evening of acoustic Mekons music and dark and anticipatory banter in the weeks leading up to Mekonville…

Music

Susie Honeyman

Sir Henry at Rawlinson End

Glastonbury Festival 2016

Susie Honeyman performs in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End.

View more: twitter.com

Music

Little Sparta

2015:

Earl Haig Hall, London
Jacksons Ln, London
The Slaughtered Lamb, London

Music

The Revenge of the Mekons

18 Nov 2015

The Bertha DocHouse Screen, London

Documentary Screening and Q&A with the director and past & present Mekons

View more: dochouse.org

Music

A Ritual Haunting through Poetry, Images and Music

7 Nov 2015

Toynbee Studios, London

Readers: Justin Hopper and Shirley Collins; Musicians: Lost Harbours, Jem Finer (Longplayer, The Pogues), Susie Honeyman (Mekons, Little Sparta), Mark Pilkington (Strange Attractor Press, Urthona), Cath Tyler (Phil & Cath Tyler, Cordelia’s Dad); Visuals: Stefan Musgrove and Mark Offord

View more: spillfestival.com

Music

Mini Mekons and Robbie Fulks in Scotland

9-19 Aug 2014

Venues:
Belladrum Festival, Beauly
Victoria Hall, Cromarty
Stromness Town Hall, Orkney
Gable End Theatre, Hoy, Orkney
Clark's, Dundee

View more: youtube.com

Music

Sir Henry at Rawlinson End

18 Jun 2014

Unity Theatre, Liverpool

Visit: unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk
Visit: facebook.com/SirHenryShow

Music

One Night Stanshall

An evening of Vivian's Meisterwerk Sir Henry at Rawlinson End and also many of Vivian's songs.

8 April 2014

Bloomsbury Theatre, London

Exhibition

Robert Marsden & Jock McFadyen

20 Feb - 29 Mar 2014

Marsden Woo, London

Music

Mini Mekons v Little Sparta

22 May 2013

Aces & Eights, London

Exhibition

Robert Marsden & Jock McFadyen

William Feaver in conversation with Jock McFadyen

6 June 2012

The Prince's Drawing School, London

Music

Little Sparta

The Garden of Disorientation

An Evening of Music and Conversation

23 May 2012

61 Charterhouse Street, London

Visit: facebook.com/events
Listen: bandcamp.com
Follow: facebook.com/LittleSpartaMusic
Listen in iTunes: itunes/little-sparta

Music

Little Sparta

Inspirations in Scottish Landscape

An Evening of Music and Conversation

1 May 2012

The Fleming Collection, London

Music

Little Sparta

Close: Music for an exhibition

New CD, Album. Released on Grey Gallery Records

Released 1 April 2012

Listen: bandcamp.com
Follow: facebook.com/LittleSpartaMusic
Listen in iTunes: itunes/little-sparta

Music

Mekons

I Have Been To Heaven And Back

20 - 29 May 2011

London and Switzerland

Exhibition

Simon Read

Plots & Plans

An exhibition of drawings

19 Sep - 2 Oct 2010

Hothouse, London

Music

Little Sparta

Close: A Journey in Scotland

Little Sparta's music features in the film accompanying the exhibition

22 Apr 2010

Chicago Botanic Garden, USA

Exhibition

Jock McFadyen

The landscape with its clothes on

15 Mar - 23 Apr 2010

Clifford Chance, London

Music

Little Sparta

An Evening of Scottish Music and Poetry

22 Apr 2010

The Fleming Collection, London

Exhibition

Simon Read

Drawn Towards

An exhibition of graphic work by Simon Read.

16 Mar - 22 Apr 2010

The Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth, Suffolk

Music

Little Sparta

The Adventures of Prince Achmed

28-30 Aug 2009

The Grey Gallery at Hawke and Hunter, Edinburgh

Listen: littlesparta.bandcamp.com

Exhibition

Bob and Roberta Smith

This Artist is Deeply Dangerous

As part of 2009’s Edinburgh Art Festival

6 Aug - 5 Sept 2009

The Grey Gallery at Hawke and Hunter, Edinburgh

Iain Sinclair and Jock McFadyen

Iain Sinclair reads from his new book Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire and talks with Jock McFadyen about their shared subject, the hidden territories of London's eastern landscape.

2 April 2009

The Grey Gallery, London