Jamie Crewe - Defiling Rain

Part of Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art

INSTALLATION
Friday 12 June, 12pm - 5pm
Saturday 13 June, 12pm - 6pm
Free, drop in

PERFORMANCE
Saturday 13 Jun, 7pm
Free, ticket required, book here
(please note, tickets are subject to transaction fees: £1.50 online, £1.75 by phone)

The University of Edinburgh Art Collection and LUX Scotland present a special two-day screening by Jamie Crewe 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.

Content notes:

'Defiling Rain' contains references to bodily and sexual functions and an image of an animal carcass.

'I Plied my Posey' contains adult language.

'Defiling Rain', 2026. Courtesy Of Jamie Crewe And The University Of Edinburgh Art Collection.