Adam Wilson

Run Rabbit, Run
Run Rabbit, Run is a deeply introspective collection that explores intrusive thoughts, mortality, and the blurring of reality and delusion. Often visited by sudden, vivid visions of death—mundane yet violent flashes such as slipping from a curb into traffic or being shot while crossing a field—I began to consider how these mental images, while grounded in possibility, morph into surreal, almost cinematic fantasies in the mind.

This collection centres on one such imagined narrative: the mythologised figure of a farmer or gamekeeper, fiercely guarding his land. Drawing from my own rural upbringing, I turned to my Grandfather’s life as a gamekeeper, using his archive of personal photographs as a starting point. These images—of landscapes, hunting gear, and the quietly rugged uniforms of country life—informed the development of custom textile prints, including reinterpreted family tartans and distorted Argyle patterns.

The collection weaves together themes of legacy, land, violence, and the psychological distortions of memory and fear. Guns, game, and garments worn by my Grandfather become recurring motifs, reimagined through a lens of anxious disassociation and aesthetic disruption. The garments act as artefacts—part homage, part hallucination—reflecting both a personal and generational connection to place, masculinity, and mortality.

By confronting these intrusive fantasies and grounding them in visual storytelling, Run Rabbit, Run becomes a meditation on inheritance, identity, and the haunting space between reality and imagined death.