Ayscough’s has the freedom of interdisciplinary experimentation; moving seamlessly between formats and forms seeking to challenge, to critique, social constructs and preconceptions. There is a broken, melancholic poetry in his work that asks us to reflect unflinchingly on the human condition. Ayscough’s explores the relationship between language, power, and everyday experience. Working across text, sculpture, Neon, installation, and conceptual practice, he uses direct statements and accessible forms to examine social inequality, political structures, human connection, and collective responsibility. Language sits at the centre of his practice, slogans, titles – propaganda and lies. He is interested in how words operate in public space and how simple phrases can carry emotional, political, and cultural weight. Much of his work begins with short written statements that combine observation, humour, frustration, hope, and critique. These texts act as both personal reflections and invitations for wider conversation. Ayscough’s work often says ‘look at what we have done, look how our self-serving popularism has broken everything, look how willingly we have been spun’. Despite the love and generosity in much of his work, he asks that you swallow a bitter pill. The bravura of the artworks on the wall belies the subtler work beneath which articulates the tragedy that we embody. His interested in creating work that remains open, human and immediate, while asking questions about how we live together and how language shapes our understanding of the world. Ayscough graduated in 1994, he lives in Edinburgh and exhibits widely across Scotland and internationally.