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MALCOLM MC NEILL has worked as an image-maker and writer in many contexts including the music industry, newspapers, magazines and books, and in film and television as an Emmy award-winning designer and Director. He was introduced at the 1991 Broadcast Design Awards as “…the man probably responsible for the most imitated [television] design style of the 1980s.” His images have been exhibited in galleries in London, New York and Los Angeles.

OTHER work includes ongoing essays, books in progress and an audio-visual project exploring the image making process with respect to Time.

“Science” is a Word/Image project in progress: a consideration of ‘knowing’ and the cataloguing of ‘is’.

Ongoing complementary texts are posted on Facebook.

CRAFT is the means by which ideas are articulated; in keeping with another definition of the term it is also a VEHICLE enabling the artist to move through SPACE and TIME. INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL is a ongoing Word/Image project that considers that idea, using art, sculpture, film, video and text created by the author.

The images created with WILLIAM BURROUGHS were exhibited when few people were aware they existed. Two books were written explaining their context, but it has taken time for the bigger picture they represent to become clear. Both the art and the text were compromised in the books, and Burroughs' own text was prevented from being published with the images for which it had been intended. This was only one of many ideas within the Fiction of AH POOK IS HERE that were manifested as Fact. "A FICTION NOT OF OUR MAKING" is a 90 minute Audio-Visual presentation showing how the interaction between images and text was not simply concerned with an overt fictional narrative but was conceived precisely to produce tangible effects - in Burroughs' words - "To make it happen". The presentation demonstrates that AH POOK’s Metatext and the two authors’ particular perception of the creative process manifested phenomena that are unprecedented in any literary context.

0º was a ‘graphic novel’ scrapped in 2003 when Ah Pook is Here was revived. Two brothers ride a motorcycle and sidecar along the equator, one on a mission to save the world, the other doubting there is one. One smokes cigarettes, the other collects the cards given away in the packs. The card images were salvaged to become Science..

1% was an illustrated book about Bigfoot suggested by The Sierra Club. The DNA difference between apes and humans is 1% and in that narrow margin, is where Bigfoot - and all other “missing links” exist. It is an incomprehensibly vast area encompassing the difference between knowing and not knowing, comedy and horror. The book was abandoned in 2003 when Ah Pook is Here was revived, but many of the ideas were incorporated into the original essays for Paraphilia Magazine.