Kate McAllan

Artist. Writer. @thiwurd

[Kate McAllan @KateMcAllan]

Pleased to have some of my drawings appear in this exciting collaboration between @thiwurd and Deus ex machina. Thanks to @Ernest_DClerck and his team for the beautiful design & production.

[Kate McAllan @KateMcAllan]

Illustration for a short story ‘ The Queen of Hearts’, 2025. Graphite and printed text on paper #scottishartist #scottishwriting #royaloperahouse

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Hydra,2024. Oil on panel. ‘I choose the rooms that I live in with care
The windows are small and the walls almost bare
There's only one bed and there's only one prayer
I listen all night for your step on the stair’.#leonardcohen

[GFT @glasgowfilm]

The CineMaster of CineMasters
DAVID LYNCH
1946-2025

Pictured here on his visit to GFT in 2007, one of the greatest filmmakers there ever was

[Kate McAllan @KateMcAllan]

‘Your favourite decoration, the glass star’

A Christmas drawing for December 2024

#graphiteonpaper #christmasdrawing #christmaslights #scottishartist

[Màiri McAllan @MairiMcAllan]

In an era of post-truth confusion people are desperate for truth. Above all they will find it in literature, music, poetry and art.

The arts help us understand who we are and make sense of the world around us. Only with this understanding can we confidently build our future.

[Kate McAllan @KateMcAllan]

A winter painting. The title is taken from a line in a Frank O’Hara poem, a poet I read a lot of in 2024.
‘New York 3 o’clock light’
Oil on panel
2024

[Kate McAllan @KateMcAllan]

@DomHowell23 Yes he’s such a great actor. I recently watched Women in Love. This was a picture of one of the stills which we used at a wurd event a while ago. Looked good in pink.

[The Clientele @theclientele]

Playing TWO sets on 23rd Nov - one will be made up of Clientele song requests from you. No support act. Last show for a while.

Request a song: https://t.co/bakCWkN9qt
Get a ticket: https://t.co/A0E1iQCw0a

[Alistair Braidwood @ScotsWhayHae]

📚🌲💕 The latest post is an appreciation of Archie Hind's classic novel 'The Dear Green Place', which has a new edition published by @PolygonBooks (& which is @Waterstones' Scottish Book of the Month for September).

You can read all about it here...
👉 https://t.co/IVJSD8gP9X

[Kate McAllan @KateMcAllan]

‘war erases it’s aims’
A number of repurposed copies of ‘Elegies for the Dead of Cyrenaica’ by Hamish Henderson including hand pressed poppies by Amy Shelton. The words are after Simone Weil. We are selling some through Studio Alec Finlay.

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[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Alain Delon 💔

[Kate McAllan @KateMcAllan]

@DomHowell23 @scotlit Thanks Dom 🙂

[Kate McAllan @KateMcAllan]

My story ‘Gerry’ is published in New Writing Scotland 42. It’s here pictured with an illustration I made for the work a long time ago now. Thank you to @scotlit for publishing it.

[• @GoldFlakePaint]

“Get together now, find hope.”
- Scott Hutchison 🤍

[Kate McAllan @KateMcAllan]

@Rae_Carmichael @HayliMcclain Thanks Rachel 🙂.

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Scotland’s Labour MPs don’t belong to Scotland. They belong to Keir Starmer.

[The National @ScotNational]

✍️ 'Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Party showed us that party politics is more important to them than reducing child poverty'

@MhairiBlack discusses Labour's talk of incoming 'change' in today's National

[Caroline Binnie @caroline_binnie]

These things just happen, I guess…

Surprise find in Soho last month, an original Sisters signed by The Bluebells in 1984!

@R0Poem @urbancrofter62 @ScotsPostPunk @GCPunkNewWave

[Kate McAllan @KateMcAllan]

A perfectly drawn hand by Alasdair Gray. So many beautiful details at the exhibition @LyonandTurnbull Glasgow showcasing John Byrne and Alasdair Gray from private collections.

[Màiri McAllan @MairiMcAllan]

When a monarch, clad in diamonds atop a golden throne, sets out the programme for a new ‘Labour’ government which is absent a measure experts know could singularly alleviate 300,000 kids from the pain of poverty, it’s hard to accept that the UK is working.