Jack Arts

Trackie McLeod: FRUIT

Glaswegian artist Trackie McLeod‘s latest exhibition FRUIT shines a light on growing up in the West of Scotland in the early noughties and explores Trackie’s lived experience from both inside and outside ‘the closet’.

JACK ARTS Scotland worked with Trackie and Govan Project Space, a not-for-profit creative space in the Southside of Glasgow, to install a large-scale 48sheet of his artwork, contrasting the journeys of the iconic friends of Dorothy with a pilgrimage from modern lad culture. Easily mistaken for a painted mural, the pasted artwork backdrops a Burberry spray-painted Nissan Micra, a not-so-subtle nod to the 90’s fashion influences throughout his work. The installation forms part of the wider exhibition which is brimming with nostalgia and humour through its installations and interactive elements; the non-traditional art space was intentional, encouraging the notion that art is for all, not the few – a motif which extends throughout Trackie’s working practise, shining a light on consumerism, culture, trends, ingrained masculinity and sexuality through a pop-art inspired queer lens.