the Modal Menagerist

I had an absolute hoot at Glasgow Zone Fest over the weekend! So glad I was able to drop in and pick up some treasures.

And it was an excellent excuse to add to my growing collection of deliciously gorgeous work from @toadlett.bsky.social

#GZF2025

07.07.2025 07:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A dark brown ceramic stoneware sculpture of a tardigrade-inspired creature. Sitting on a stone wall next to a field

A dark brown ceramic stoneware sculpture of a tardigrade-inspired creature. Sitting on a stone wall next to a fence post in a field.

A dark brown ceramic stoneware sculpture of a tardigrade-inspired creature.

A birds-eye view of a dark brown ceramic stoneware sculpture of a tardigrade-inspired creature.

A tardigrade-inspired monstrosity just casually doggy paddling its way through our reality.

I love the chubby little arms on this beastie.

#sculpture #tardigrade #ceramics #clayart #scottishartist #menagerist

07.07.2025 07:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A digital handdrawn black line image of three floating sycamore seed fairies.

A digital hand drawn black line image of a Rose-Bay Willow Herb Faerie and a Pieris Forest Flame Faerie

A full colour hand drawn digital illustration of a Pieris Forest Flame Faerie

A full colour hand drawn digital illustration of a Sycamore Seed Faery

Some botanically inspired Faeries.

#DigitalArt #illustration #faerie #sycamore #pierisforestflame #rosebaywillowherb #ScottishArt

06.07.2025 18:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A colour illustration inspired by medieval marginalia. Two were-hyenas drink wine, one of them urinating on the edge of the picture. A third, full hyena, watches.

Vulgar marginalia-inspired nonsense eh?

Medieval Were-Hyenas you say?

#Illustration #Medieval #Marginalia #ScottishArt #Hyenas #DigitalArt

04.07.2025 05:40 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Two stoneware ceramic sculptures with a metallic glaze. They are sitting in the middle of a.country road. Both are tall coiled snake/worm like creatures with a Tardigrade inspired head.

Two stoneware ceramic sculptures with a metallic glaze. They are sitting in a grassy field. Both are tall coiled snake/worm like creatures with a Tardigrade inspired head.

A stoneware ceramic sculpture with a metallic glaze. It is a tall coiled snake/worm like creature with a Tardigrade inspired head.

A stoneware ceramic sculpture with a metallic glaze. It is a tall coiled snake/worm like creature with a Tardigrade inspired head.

Two sentinels keeping watch...

#ClayArt #Ceramics #ScottishArt #Sculpture #Tardigrade #Clay

01.07.2025 19:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A stoneware sculpture of a legless crab like creature with a long proboscis

A stoneware sculpture of a legless crab like creature with a long proboscis

A stoneware sculpture of a legless crab like creature with a long proboscis

A stoneware sculpture of a legless crab like creature with a long proboscis

Carcinisation - all roads eventually lead to CRAB

#Sculpture #Ceramic #ClayArt #ScottishArt #Crab #Clay

29.06.2025 20:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A birds-eye view of a highly reflective stoneware sculpture of a dark green coiled worm with teeth

A stoneware sculpture of two small Tardigrade-inspired worms coiling around each other.

A stoneware sculpture of two small Tardigrade-inspired worms coiling around each other.

A highly reflective stoneware sculpture of a dark green coiled worm with teeth

Squiggly, Squirmy, Curled-Up Wormies

#ClayArt #Ceramics #Tardigrade #Worm #ScottishArt #Monster

28.06.2025 14:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A small stoneware sculpture of a wrinkly faceless frog like creature

A small stoneware sculpture of a wrinkly faceless frog like creature from behind with their froggy butt showing

A small stoneware sculpture of a wrinkly faceless frog like creature

A small stoneware sculpture of a wrinkly faceless frog like creature

More frog fun..

#CeramicArt #Sculpture #Frog #Frogs #ScottishArt #ClayArt #Art

27.06.2025 19:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A stoneware sculpture of a toothed worm creature wailing

A stoneware sculpture of a toothed worm creature wailing

A stoneware sculpture of a toothed worm creature wailing

A stoneware sculpture of a toothed worm creature wailing

A wailing worm

26.06.2025 19:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A stoneware teapot with wooden handle. Shaped like a 'Graboid' from Tremors. A gigantic prehistoric worm with multiple tongues with mouths of their own.

A stoneware teapot with wooden handle. Shaped like a 'Graboid' from Tremors. A gigantic prehistoric worm with multiple tongues with mouths of their own.

A close-up of a stoneware teapot with wooden handle. Shaped like a 'Graboid' from Tremors. A gigantic prehistoric worm with multiple tongues with mouths of their own.

'Broke into the wrong goddamned tearoom didn't you, you b@£#&*d'

A Graboid-inspired teapot. Technically functional but I wouldn't recommend it

#ClayArt #Teapot #CeramicArt #Tremors #Sculpture #Graboid

23.06.2025 08:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A round stoneware ceramic sculpture of a featureless frog. Its body is instead carved with vaguely ritualistic symbols.

A round stoneware ceramic sculpture of a featureless frog. Its body is instead carved with vaguely ritualistic symbols.

A round stoneware ceramic sculpture of a featureless frog. Its body is instead carved with vaguely ritualistic symbols. This is a view from behind and it has a cute wee froggy butt

A round stoneware ceramic sculpture of a featureless frog. Its body is instead carved with vaguely ritualistic symbols.

'Ribbit Ribbit'
'Cra Cra'
'Vrak'
'Op Op'
'Kero Kero'
'Kwaak'
'Kum Kum'
'Guo Guo'

#CeramicArt #Sculpture #Frog #Frogs #ScottishArt

22.06.2025 06:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A view from the right of a stoneware ceramic sculpture of an eight armed creature with a long proboscis. The sculpture has a very shiny glaze with deep browns and greens. The background is light green.

A view from the left of a stoneware ceramic sculpture of an eight armed creature with a long proboscis. The sculpture has a very shiny glaze with deep browns and greens. The background is light green.

A birds-eye view of a stoneware ceramic sculpture of an eight armed creature with a long proboscis. The sculpture has a very shiny glaze with deep browns and greens. The background is light green

A stoneware sculpture inspired by the mini but MIGHTY Tardigrade.

#CeramicArt #Sculpture #Tardigrade

21.06.2025 16:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

People do not seem to think that understanding history deeply helps with understanding present problems, and it’s fascinating to see how the erosion of the humanities has contributed to this.

28.10.2023 16:10 — 👍 2088    🔁 559    💬 55    📌 26

"A familiar silhouette appears against the night sky" (I'm proud of this one because A. I made space with photoshop which is not my skill set, and B. I THINK I spelt silhouette right)

23rd

23.10.2023 15:32 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0

This is such a gorgeous design. A confusing but delicious melding of mammal, reptile and plant. I LOVE it!

15.10.2023 10:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

ventured a little too far into the monstober territory today
#inktober 💜

14.10.2023 02:37 — 👍 28    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 1

"Oh here we go again" thinks the Scruff as she's scooped up into the air by a pelican, chow mein falling out her mouth

13th

13.10.2023 15:14 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Where’ve All The Good People Come From? On the Origins of British Fairies A talk exploring the early history of Britain’s fairies, and proposing a new approach to understanding the origins of British fairy lore

On 24 October I’m delivering an online talk for the Folklore Society on the question posed by my most recent book - where do Britain’s fairies come from? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whereve-al...

01.09.2023 17:39 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1

Digital biege-toned sketch on a black background. A canine-headed person pries open their own jaws as a red canine emerges snarling from their throat. Both have vacant white eyes.

🅾🆄🆃 🅾🅵 🅼🆈🆂🅴🅻🅵 🅸 🅲🅰🅽 🅵🅴🅴🅻 🅸🆃 🅲🆁🅰🆆🅻🅸🅽🅶

05.10.2023 21:37 — 👍 32    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

A trans flag flying against a clear blue sky, from which all the clouds have passed.

Sending love and hope to all my trans friends and their families today, tomorrow, and every day.

04.10.2023 19:14 — 👍 332    🔁 56    💬 3    📌 0

Comradery Collect money from your subscribers on a cooperatively owned platform

OOPS, I DROPPED MY LINK TO COMRADERY HERE OH NO WHAT IF PEOPLE DISCOVER THERE IS A NON PATREON ALTERNATIVE - that's cooperatively owned by people working together, not a tech start up

comradery.co

03.10.2023 17:00 — 👍 43    🔁 14    💬 5    📌 1

Medieval Gender and Sexuality An introduction to conceptions of gender and sexuality in the medieval period. Each week historian Eleanor Janega discusses the philosophical and societal underpinnings that shaped culture and relatio...

Since I know a bunch of you are nerd ass nerds you might be interested in checking out my online Gender and Sexuality course which starts next week. It is six weeks long and you get hour long lecture/discussion sessions and also SO MUCH LITERATURE.
medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/medi...

03.10.2023 11:06 — 👍 190    🔁 90    💬 6    📌 4

TAGS Fest 2023 is going to take place on December 2nd at Fruitmarket!

TAGS Fest is a brand new market event dedicated to spotlighting Scotland's small press talent. Exhibitor announcements and Board Game Zone signups coming soon to our IG and Twitter (@tagsfestival)!

🏷️ Learn more at tagsfest.co.uk

29.09.2023 10:02 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

Hey if you're able to access your local library, do me a favour and use it. I guarantee they'll have services or events that might be useful or interesting. At the very least its a chill place that's always free to hang out.

20.09.2023 09:52 — 👍 24    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0