Christopher Hoggins Artist

Hello world! I shall be popping the odd bit of blurb and announcements about what I'm up too and goodies you can throw money at me for.

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What an Uta fool!

I feel annoyed that I’m having to write this as I am quite ill right now and I have too much on my plate already. If this seems a bit rambling, it’s because I won’t be going over it numerous times. Also, there are people going into this in far more depth than I shall. 84 year old academic and emeritus (read long retired) professor Uta Frith has just been interviewed for a publication that I’m…

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A New Hope?

Like many people with AuDHD, my flat is strewn with virtually empty sketchbooks; each with a few words scribbled in them to intimate a grand project that never happened. One of these notebooks has the word ‘Hope’ penciled on the front and is accompanied by a sketchbook full of ideas for artworks based on the word and everything that it represents… I think it has sat there for six months now, long…

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What doesn't kill you...

I’ve been a bit quiet on here recently. It’s not that I haven’t had anything to say; it’s more that I have been reluctant to contribute any more to the relentless sea of human noise that is the internet in the era of AI. That said, today’s entry in my personal , paper and fountain pen journal probably deserved a wider market than just gathering dust until some house clearance operative dumps it…

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Things with things on them.

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Look at what you made me do!

Well my new book is out! If by ‘out’ you mean up on etsy or available to the few people who I allow to contact me… Such is trying to ‘do’ capitalism whilst being massively autistic. I never wanted to make this book, I wanted to cheerfully plug my iconic art book and generally live my best life. But it turned out Britain had gone and elected yet another bunch of austerity driven ghouls and; here…

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Not quite the Shawshank Redemption

Life has not been much fun of late. I have discovered that there is one thing worse than being disabled and the wrong kind of sick in a country that is trying to intentionally impoverish you and that is writing and illustrating a book about said atrocities at the same time. Like any occasion in history when a government slides toward fascism, it is very tempting to wear a blindfold, stick your…

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Because I'm worthless.

It seems that in terms of Britain’s new government, I have committed the worst of sins… I am ‘Economically Inactive’. Being disabled by a dodgy heart, knackered lungs and the wrong kind of autism that makes me hopeless at tech and maths and brilliant at being utterly bemused and even terrified by the world, I am neither use nor ornament in the beancounter terms of my toxic neoliberal government.…

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What is worth defending?

The British government is planning to spent billions on ‘defence’ with a vast amount of the funding being directly taken from the budget earmarked for supporting the sick and disabled. The justifications for both choices are thinner than cheap toilet paper and just as unpleasant and as Starmer, Reeves and Kendall use wording that was once attached to swasticas and jackboots to take vital funding…

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Picking up the pieces again.

My life has been hell for the past couple of weeks. I have barely slept, barely eaten and each time I wake up I have to drag myself back up the day as a gibbering wreck whilst I take on the latest horrors drip fed through the media by my own government… again. No one chooses to be disabled and I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy…. I’m sorry, that’s a lie actually. I would wish it on the heads…

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Joyful Revolution

It’s been a difficult few weeks in the UK. When your own government launches an all out attack on its poorest and most vulnerable and starts using words that would not look out of place in 1930’s Germany, you know there is something seriously wrong. Suffice to say, I haven’t had much sleep or any peace of mind during the many waking hours I have experienced since then and my physical health is…

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Save the Chris! (and others)

I am currently being bullied by my own government… As are around a million other disabled people. In a completely pointless exercise that will only serve to tip many with severe disabilities into extreme poverty and as, under the tories, many will die. Labour are planning to change how disabilities are scored so that many conditions that massively limit peoples lives no longer count… Their…

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That 1930's Feeling...

My country is governed by evil people. I sort of want to leave it there but part of the reason that I am writing this is as a testament to history. My government is trying to put through a raft of insane measures that make no sense. They don’t have to take vital support from the poor, it will cost more to clean up the human carnage than it will ever save. I can see two reasons for this; the…

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A Reality Check.

I try to find humour in most things but with this I am sadly coming up short. A group of right wing Labour MPs (work that out) have called for massive cuts to the British welfare that has already been described as woefully falling short financially and to have “grave and systemic failures”. The letter, headed by a chap from a wealthy family with a ridiculous double barrelled name that would not…

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Extinction avoidance (mine!)

As you may know I like many of Britains sick and disabled are in danger of being made extinct by our own government. If you would rather myself and all the other wobbly people to remain alive I would appreciate if those residence in the UK would sign this petition from 38 Degrees. Thank -you in advance for my continued existence. 😘 BTW in case you a curious, that is (was) a Baiji a blind river…

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Help!

This is a call out to my British readers. Vulnerable people in Britain are being attacked by our own Government. Vital money will be cut from the sick and disabled unless enough pressure is put on them to stop this dangerous There is time to act but you need to do it soon and best of all, it won’t cost you a penny. Please can you to sign the charity Scope’s open letter? Here. and if you have a…

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Help! I'm Just Hanging on.

For those not big on exposition, feel free to skip to the end paragraphs marked * You can make a difference! At 6.30, last Friday night. My life went off a cliff. There was a story on the news about how disabled people like myself were going to lose between a third to a half of the money that we rely on to survive. This is not the first time that my world has collapsed from beneath me but for…

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One

Today was a shameful day for the once proud British Labour party as supine MPs did the rounds of the UK’s complicit media explaining their intention of cutting a support network that was once a source of national pride. One particular no mark,‭ Shabana Mahmoud, clearly has an axe to grind with those that have the barefaced cheek to become sick or disabled in smugly pointing out that it’s the…

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