1000 Tiny Birds: 2025 edition

Dylan Moran - Lucky Dip exhibition

Slowly Downward, 2025-09-06

It’s a weird confluence, finding Dylan Moran exhibiting his artwork at Stanley Donwood’s gallery in Bath, explicable by apparently (as the man working the gallery told us) Moran and Donwood living near each other in Brighton. And, more specifically, Moran being in Bath playing Bottom at the Royal Theatre. Despite feeling a bit under the weather on the tail end of a cold, we make our way into Bath for it, and find a relatively small room with art up around it. The pieces are reminiscent of the doodles Moran used to project during his shows, and could easily be explained by being fragments of speech overheard in the world from which he’s extrapolated. We end up buying one (“Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we will be fatter”) which seems perfect for the kitchen, and as such I’m allowed to hook a bag from the window which contains a stuffed cat. Never say you don’t get respect as a patron of the arts.