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Exhibition
Red Yellow and Blue: Five pictures
Sat 18 Mar - Sun 14 May 2023
McFadyen opened 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

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.

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...
Read more: artlyst.com

Music
29 Jul 2020
Little Sparta and Sally Timms
Lost Boat Party
New EP
Released 29 July 2020
Listen: bandcamp.com
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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
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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
Read more: aestheticamagazine.com

Reading
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

Exhibition
Jock McFadyen
Horse lamenting the invention of the motor car…
5 Mar - 26 Apr 2009
The Grey Gallery, London

Exhibition
Richard Wilson
Hot Dog Roll
1 - 31 Aug 2008
10 Old Broughton, Edinburgh
Visit: richardwilsonsculptor.com

Music
Grey Gallery Records
Little Sparta & Sally Timms
New Album. Released 11 Jan 2008, on Grey Gallery Records
Listen: bandcamp.com

Exhibition
Miranda Argyle, Neil Gall, Jock McFadyen, Humphrey Ocean, Simon Read, Bob and Roberta Smith, Richard Wilson and Jessica Voorsanger
Small Wonders
15 Nov - 9 Dec 2007
Eleven Spitalfields, London

Exhibition
Jock McFadyen
Small Pictures
4 - 28 Oct 2007
Eleven Spitalfields, London

Exhibition
Jock McFadyen
Kill Matthew Barney
27 Sep - 21 Oct 2007
nomoregrey, London

Exhibition
Jock McFadyen
Pictures of Scotland
10 Aug - 2 Sep 2007
10 Old Broughton, Edinburgh