.Samantha Clark's immersive creative commitment led to her being given Royal Scottish Academy MacRobert Art Award for Painting. My column The Sunday Post. PLUS a major new show from Glasgow-based artists Beagles & Ramsay GoMA Glasgow.
(Bonus What's On content, inc Big Art Show in Paisley!)

I'm delighted to share that I have just been awarded the RSA MacRobert Trust Art Award for Painting. I'm so grateful for this gift of time in the studio over the coming year. royalscottishacademy.org/news/29-winner…

Wonder why Australian beef is cheaper than British beef?

The video on the left is 🇦🇺 govt funded feedlot houses 70,000 animals fed only grain to fatten quicker.

Our British cattle on the right graze across acres with plenty of trees for shade. Each has a passport.

I have written a book because politicians are destroying the NHS intentionally, and I think everyone deserves to know what’s going on 🚨

It is a *big deal* that one of the largest publishing houses in the world is publishing a book about NHS privatisation, and an even bigger…

“We cannot see the damage being done to the bottom of the seas. If it was on land there would be a massive outcry.” - Signatory 8597 of the #inshorelimit petition

Clip from #saveourwildisles Catch-22 BBC RSPB National Trust for Scotland

watch full film here 🎥 bit.ly/41fxblK

Welcome to Scotland. This beach is on Skye & this is the reality of many of our beaches. A huge group of folk have worked incredibly hard over the last few days, to try & remove as much plastic pollution from Skye's beaches as possible. The issue is huge, shocking & heartbreaking

A handaxe is an object that invites us to inhabit time in a different way, a plumb-line that drops through time vertically. It gathers the deep past and the present in the palm of the hand. Its handmade form is perfect, like a seedpod, a leafbud, a boat.
samanthaclark.net/making-a-handa…

'Ocean of Rain' is one of this month's new suite of drawings. I'm releasing them to my email list on Wednesday. Opt in here if you'd like to receive the details: mailchi.mp/ebb27e3dd59f/s…

When is a river not a river? Dilip Da Cunha explains wetness has been moving long before it reached the river and will go on flowing, through clouds, weather systems and invisible water vapour in the atmosphere. New blog post: samanthaclark.net/the-invention-…

Glad you enjoyed it Ruth Broadbent!

#BookTwitter we need your help! I run Book Bodega, an Indy bookshop in Ramsgate. Winter is killing us, it’s soo quiet & we need to make £800 by Tuesday to pay our bills. This is my current view = no customers 🥹. Please shop with us and help us stay open!
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🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Scottish Government's new Budget contains devastating cuts to arts and culture. MSPs will decide whether to approve the plans on Tuesday. Please join me and Campaign for the Arts in our campaign to #StopTheCuts in Scotland. campaignforthearts.org/petitions/scot…

Quality seasonal content from Orkney Library

Mentoring opportunity for writers!

This year, the wonderful Cal Flyn and I are offering free mentoring to a small number of writers in Scotland who are currently working on their first book.

More details in the thread below, and here: malachytallack.com/mentoring

I'm releasing a new suite of small drawings tomorrow. Opt into my email list if you'd like to receive a link to the online viewing room - link in profile! 🙂

This wonderful memoir is coming out into the world this week.

Hello! If you oppose NHS privatisation please could you RT this? I need to find who to follow next (it’ll be you!)💙

Don Domanski's quiet amazement: A short post about the poems that are getting me through the grey days of January. samanthaclark.net/the-poetry-of-…

I was delighted to be asked about some of my favourite books by Books from Scotland and really enjoyed making this list, which includes Mumblin' Deaf Ro, Samantha Clark, Kiran Millwood Hargrave FRSL **UPDATES ONLY**, Gareth Brookes, Maggie Nelson, James Baldwin and Hunter Davies.
booksfromscotland.com/2023/01/the-bo…