Nothing Personal: Issue 1

Nothing Personal is a magazine for art, essays and reviews, based in Glasgow."Esther Draycott’s She’d been good, it hadn’t worked delves into twentieth century Glaswegian women’s memoir, redressing the surveillance and state controls enacted on the lives of those in council housing. Calum Sutherland’s interview with Hardeep Pandhal asks how to negotiate the Scottish art scene’s seemingly slim set of opportunities, starting with a critical discussion around the artist’s exhibition Confessions of a Thug: Pakiveli (2020) at Tramway. In Can I We really be all this !!!!, the poet Olivia Douglass uses family photographs to ask how language, memory and image can exceed themselves. In the lead up to COP26, Maria Howard looks at the limits of the heroic narratives that pervade nature writing in her essay Vigilant Care. Yuki Okumura writes our first REWORK. His The Depersonalization of Artist treats text sculpturally, manipulating each word of a version of Lucy Lippard and John Chandler’s The De