John Ayscough
Very popular in Europe, John often shows in Rome and Verona.
Practically unknown in his home town due to censorship. Censored, excluded from shows and public money due to censorship because of the content of his work, he swore never to show in Edinburgh again.
He Exhibits photos of himself naked and in car accidents.
They are prepared to show children the 200 years of porn in our national art galleries, but then those are naked women and this is a naked man. John Acecough shocks to expand the boundaries of our cultural sensibilities and laws.
He last came to local public knowledge at the 369 Gallery with his show Smoking Room, where he gave out free packs of 20, Sponsored by the Marlboro Cigarettes.
"I am the last living Modernist and I provide the Shock of The New."