A.Valliard
@valliard.bsky.social
Allegorist, ink scribbler, occasional ham actor. They/them. Perpetrator of THE CITY OF LOST INTENTIONS: A Guide for the Artistically Waylaid.
Out now! (unfortunately)
www.thecityoflostintentions.com
www.valliard.com
Out now! (unfortunately)
www.thecityoflostintentions.com
www.valliard.com
The City of Lost Intentions: A Guide for the Artistically Waylaid is also available in BOOKSHOPS, where you can not only buy and own it immediately, but also support the dwindling, Amazon-ravaged bookstore ecosystem.
#booksky #art #bookshops #Brisbane #Sydney #Melbourne #Dublin
#booksky #art #bookshops #Brisbane #Sydney #Melbourne #Dublin
November 20, 2025 at 5:47 AM
The City of Lost Intentions: A Guide for the Artistically Waylaid is also available in BOOKSHOPS, where you can not only buy and own it immediately, but also support the dwindling, Amazon-ravaged bookstore ecosystem.
#booksky #art #bookshops #Brisbane #Sydney #Melbourne #Dublin
#booksky #art #bookshops #Brisbane #Sydney #Melbourne #Dublin
It's essentially a sort of morbid Where's Wally where you try to find your place in writers'/artists' hell. There's 151 listed denizens of this city and 10 levels of artistic villainy. You're undoubtedly in there somewhere.
(I certainly am.)
#booksky
(I certainly am.)
#booksky
November 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
It's essentially a sort of morbid Where's Wally where you try to find your place in writers'/artists' hell. There's 151 listed denizens of this city and 10 levels of artistic villainy. You're undoubtedly in there somewhere.
(I certainly am.)
#booksky
(I certainly am.)
#booksky
This is an excellent chance to passive-aggressively irritate any writers, actors, musicians, filmmakers, painters, poets or philosophers in your circle of friends and reprobates.
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This is an excellent chance to passive-aggressively irritate any writers, actors, musicians, filmmakers, painters, poets or philosophers in your circle of friends and reprobates.
It’s that horrible time again! Remember, “The City of Lost Intentions” makes a fine gift for the malingering wastrel/artist in your life (which might be YOU).
thecityoflostintentions.com
#booksky #weirdbooks #absurdist #writingcommunity
£7 / $10 USD / €8 / $15 AUD
thecityoflostintentions.com
#booksky #weirdbooks #absurdist #writingcommunity
£7 / $10 USD / €8 / $15 AUD
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It’s that horrible time again! Remember, “The City of Lost Intentions” makes a fine gift for the malingering wastrel/artist in your life (which might be YOU).
thecityoflostintentions.com
#booksky #weirdbooks #absurdist #writingcommunity
£7 / $10 USD / €8 / $15 AUD
thecityoflostintentions.com
#booksky #weirdbooks #absurdist #writingcommunity
£7 / $10 USD / €8 / $15 AUD
I have made a HELPFUL T-SHIRT to further illuminate my thoughts on the matter ~ YOU may wear one too! www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Im...
#antiAI #art #humanart
#antiAI #art #humanart
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I have made a HELPFUL T-SHIRT to further illuminate my thoughts on the matter ~ YOU may wear one too! www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Im...
#antiAI #art #humanart
#antiAI #art #humanart
I've also made some impolite badges on the theme, which I intend to wear to thwart any further persuasive efforts.
www.redbubble.com/i/pin/Impoli...
#antiAI #antigenerativeAI (specifically)
www.redbubble.com/i/pin/Impoli...
#antiAI #antigenerativeAI (specifically)
November 8, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I've also made some impolite badges on the theme, which I intend to wear to thwart any further persuasive efforts.
www.redbubble.com/i/pin/Impoli...
#antiAI #antigenerativeAI (specifically)
www.redbubble.com/i/pin/Impoli...
#antiAI #antigenerativeAI (specifically)
I've had rather a lot of people recommending AI to me lately, so I've drawn Shakespeare stabbing a robot in the eye with a quill.
#art #ink #scribbleau #verymuchnotAI
#art #ink #scribbleau #verymuchnotAI
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I've had rather a lot of people recommending AI to me lately, so I've drawn Shakespeare stabbing a robot in the eye with a quill.
#art #ink #scribbleau #verymuchnotAI
#art #ink #scribbleau #verymuchnotAI
October 31, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Early rehearsal scribbles for the upcoming Kate Gaul directed COWBOIS! A "rollicking queer western" featuring a cast of horribly talented and charming actors and a lot of flouncing and swaggering around. Brilliant! www.seymourcentre.com/event/cowbois/
#art #illustration #theatre #ink
#art #illustration #theatre #ink
October 31, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Early rehearsal scribbles for the upcoming Kate Gaul directed COWBOIS! A "rollicking queer western" featuring a cast of horribly talented and charming actors and a lot of flouncing and swaggering around. Brilliant! www.seymourcentre.com/event/cowbois/
#art #illustration #theatre #ink
#art #illustration #theatre #ink
October 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Borzoi Hellhound! Another dubious doglike scribble for/of "The Tell-Tale Hound" #ink #illustration #musicaltheatre #folkhorror
September 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Borzoi Hellhound! Another dubious doglike scribble for/of "The Tell-Tale Hound" #ink #illustration #musicaltheatre #folkhorror
Charon (James Robin) with a banjo, and Xanthius (Eddy O'Leary) with his rubber chicken. #dubiousunderworlds #theatre #aristophanes #art #ink #cartoon
September 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Charon (James Robin) with a banjo, and Xanthius (Eddy O'Leary) with his rubber chicken. #dubiousunderworlds #theatre #aristophanes #art #ink #cartoon
There's some magnificently chaotic, pervy, absurdist, Bacchanalian business going on up at New Theatre
for 3 FINAL SHOWS, if any Sydneysiders are idle. "The Frogs: In Hell They Sing Show Tunes" adapted VERY loosely after Aeschylus. Cheap tix on Thurs, matinee on Saturday! #sydneytheatre #art #ink
for 3 FINAL SHOWS, if any Sydneysiders are idle. "The Frogs: In Hell They Sing Show Tunes" adapted VERY loosely after Aeschylus. Cheap tix on Thurs, matinee on Saturday! #sydneytheatre #art #ink
September 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
There's some magnificently chaotic, pervy, absurdist, Bacchanalian business going on up at New Theatre
for 3 FINAL SHOWS, if any Sydneysiders are idle. "The Frogs: In Hell They Sing Show Tunes" adapted VERY loosely after Aeschylus. Cheap tix on Thurs, matinee on Saturday! #sydneytheatre #art #ink
for 3 FINAL SHOWS, if any Sydneysiders are idle. "The Frogs: In Hell They Sing Show Tunes" adapted VERY loosely after Aeschylus. Cheap tix on Thurs, matinee on Saturday! #sydneytheatre #art #ink
Emergency Room scribbles. (don't ask)
August 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Emergency Room scribbles. (don't ask)
“The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.”
Happy belated posthumous birthday to James Baldwin and to the impossible-to-ink-scribble elegance of his soul. 🍷🍷
Happy belated posthumous birthday to James Baldwin and to the impossible-to-ink-scribble elegance of his soul. 🍷🍷
August 3, 2025 at 6:41 AM
“The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.”
Happy belated posthumous birthday to James Baldwin and to the impossible-to-ink-scribble elegance of his soul. 🍷🍷
Happy belated posthumous birthday to James Baldwin and to the impossible-to-ink-scribble elegance of his soul. 🍷🍷
As it's the first day of August, and the world is a churning ball of unspeakable horror, prithee enjoy my existentially upsetting tale of devolving, primordial bog-persons, courtesy of the splendid Fatal Flaw literary magazine:
www.fatalflawlit.com/fiction-piec...
www.fatalflawlit.com/fiction-piec...
August 1, 2025 at 5:55 AM
As it's the first day of August, and the world is a churning ball of unspeakable horror, prithee enjoy my existentially upsetting tale of devolving, primordial bog-persons, courtesy of the splendid Fatal Flaw literary magazine:
www.fatalflawlit.com/fiction-piec...
www.fatalflawlit.com/fiction-piec...
Cartoon ink sketches from Mark Ravenhill's play "Ben and Imo" featuring Samuel Barnett as a mercurial and waspish Benjamin Britten being lured to the lip of and dangled over the pit of his own hell by the promise of a National Opera, and Victoria Yeates as the formidable Imogen Holzt. #art #theatre
July 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Je ne comprends bloody pas.
June 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Je ne comprends bloody pas.
Have moved to a hotel that makes me feel like a washed up Hollywood roué from the 40’s. Vanity mirror with broken lightbulbs, velvet armchair, green lace, dust upon dust upon darkness. They’ll have to drag my husk out of here.
May 17, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Have moved to a hotel that makes me feel like a washed up Hollywood roué from the 40’s. Vanity mirror with broken lightbulbs, velvet armchair, green lace, dust upon dust upon darkness. They’ll have to drag my husk out of here.
"I prefer to employ this sort of nihilism in my work because the world is a bloody mystery; incomprehensible and obscure."
May 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"I prefer to employ this sort of nihilism in my work because the world is a bloody mystery; incomprehensible and obscure."
ON THE STREET, BY GOD. Just laying there all ruptured, notes flowing everywhere. A MESS.
May 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
ON THE STREET, BY GOD. Just laying there all ruptured, notes flowing everywhere. A MESS.