“Being Scottish is part of my identity,” Trackie says.
“I love Scottish patter, I love Scottish humour, I love Scottish vocabulary, it’s something so specific to us.”
His previous exhibitions in Glasgow showcased references to sayings or traditions that only people from Scotland would understand but he says he knew he would have to adapt his work to become better known on the UK art circuit.
“I don’t want to alienate people,” he said, “but I think nostalgia is a transferable thing.”
For his latest exhibition, at a famous art gallery in Sussex, the work is less specifically Scottish, and focuses more on the shared experience of working class youth.
Apart from one specific phrase.
“One of the things says ‘No wee dafties’,” he says.
“It’s a thing northern English people would know but down south at the opening night, they were like ‘what is a dafty’?”