Go Touch Some Grass.

As apart of the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design Degree Show 2025, Malachy McCrimmon’s work explored the absurd tales of animals adapting to the Anthropocene through the lens of “Glitch Ecology”: a concept that refers to the displacement of nature in a post-digital world. McCrimmon’s process embodied the glitch by embracing error, breaking compositional norms, and recontextualising traditional symbolism; blurring boundaries where the real and the virtual become indecipherable. The result is a collision between the natural and technological world, the old and the new, the living and the dead, where these animal protagonists must adapt within.

Gallery wall with three paintings of animals and abstract art, surrounded by woodcut prints and designs on the wall.

Art gallery wall with multiple paintings, including images of birds and abstract designs, surrounded by small gold sketches and designs on a white wall.

Each painting is mounted on industrial TV brackets jutting from the wall, creating a sporadic display that aims to replicate the intrusiveness of pop-up ads, as well as humanity’s imprint on nature. Behind them, 94 laser-engraved wooden panels - The Doomscrolls - pixelate the gallery walls with imagery plucked from internet culture, now distorted into cryptic symbols of ecological loss.

Gallery wall with multiple paintings and decorative plaques, including sea, animal, and abstract themes.

“…Malachy McCrimmon has taken over one end of the Cooper Gallery with an installation of 2D works that somehow jump out from the wall with a sculptural, or rather animated, quality. Filled with polarising imagery, the work behaves like a cacophony of post-internet noise and pixelated birdsong. Though purely visual, composed of paintings and laser-engraved wooden panels, it has the effect of something that sings. Reminiscent of digital doomscrolling, the installation forms a pop-up ad-like overload of visual information. It features dolphins, anime girls, eagles catching drones and laughing face emoticons, and amounts to a captivating display concerned with the technical errors of the modern and natural world.”

- Celest MacLeod-Brown, The Skinny, DJCAD Degree Show 2025: The Review

"Flint and Steel", Oil and acrylic paint on canvas, 120cm x 100cm, 2025

"New-Age Valkyrie Symphony", Oil and acrylic paint on canvas, 90cm x 150cm, 2025

"Angel", Oil and acrylic on canvas, 80cm x 100cm, 2025

"Scavenger Hunt", Oil and acrylic on canvas, 150cm x 60cm, 2025

"Eagle5000", Oil, acrylic and laser engraving on canvas, 120cm x 100cm, 2025

"Shrine to Trash Pandas", Oil and acrylic on canvas, 135cm x 65cm, 2025

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