Christopher Ivor Adam (b. 1999, Paisley; lives and works in Dundee) makes prints, paintings, drawings, films, songs and stories.

Adam works instinctively to make marks across a range of media, especially oil paint and lithography, creating characters and personalities to tell stories in idioms indigenous to his native Scotland. His work is drawn between imagination and historical records, and flits between Gaelic, Scots and English.

Some recent projects have tackled the link between traditional styles of singing and conspiracy theories; a violent regime seeking to restore Fife’s medieval Gaelic past; and paintings inspired by a fellow shape note singer’s carving of her own gravestone, as practice.

Adam’s work is held in private collections throughout the British Isles, Spain, France, Germany, the United States and Malaysia.