Glasgow International: Jamie Crewe, 'Defiling Rain'

The University of Edinburgh Art Collection and LUX Scotland present a special two-day screening by Jamie Crewe at Tramway as part of Glasgow International 2026, accompanied by a unique live event featuring Crewe and a musical ensemble.Jamie Crewe​’s ​‘Defiling Rain’ is a collection of short audio-visual vignettes which take the opinionated animals and personified weather of medieval fables and abandon them in a city struck by disaster.

Each vignette is a song, with music performed by a small ensemble of musicians and a variety of vocalists, and lyrics describing fraught and fantastical scenarios.

They are fables with the tails lopped off or the heads removed.Using a diverse range of cinematic techniques including animation, puppetry, and collage, Jamie’s stories without morals are richly illustrated and screened in an endlessly randomised order.

Authority has fled or been overturned, the materials of commentary and instruction are deranged, and with their remains ​‘Defiling Rain’ stages the awe, horror, and joy of disintegration.‘I Plied My Poesy — Words and Music Regarding ​“Defiling Rain” — Jamie Crewe and Band’ is a unique live event concluding ​‘Defiling Rain’ at Tramway.

The event will feature songs played live, sketchbooks splayed open, and patter.