Thanks, Friend o’ SorryWatch Nicola, for pointing us toward the work of artist David Fullarton, which is deliciously apology-centric!

The images you see here are mixed media drawings on cardboard. Fullarton writes in his artist statement (when I say that it sounds pretentious; he did not say that and would not sound pretentious) on Flickr, “Each one is an imagined apology combined with a pencil portrait drawn from found pictures of people I’ve never met. Although I’m British, I’ve lived in the USA for the last 16 years, which means I come from a place where everyone constantly apologises for everything, and I live in a place where no one ever apologizes for anything. This series has come about as a result of that experience.” Indeed.

Fullarton’s work has twice been covered on Jeremyriad (a blog by Bay Area writer/collector/critic Jeremy Brautman), where you can see a nifty little Vine video of Fullarton making silkscreens. Jeremyriad also pointed us toward Fullarton’s 40-page art book called (logically) I Can’t Apologise Enough, available for your purchasing delectation on Blurb. His current solo show, called (still logically) I Can’t Apologise Enough, is at the The Compound Gallery in Oakland, where he’ll be on Sunday from 3-6pm PST, delivering an “Artist Talk” at 4pm. (It’ll stream live on the gallery web site for us non-Bay-Areans. “You can even send in awkward questions, in real time, for me to ignore,” Fullarton informs us on his blog.) The gallery features an interactive apology wall where attendees can post their own apologies, comme ça: 

There are some shockingly affordable pieces by Fullarton online at the gallery; you could also check out his Etsy shop (currently empty, presumably so you can enjoy shopping at the Compound Gallery) and haunt his Flickr page, the way I intend to.