about

hi! i’m blare coughlin and i make zines and art. this is my lovely website where you can find an exhaustive amount of both the zines and the art. i make a lot of stuff and i am making the a lot of stuff all the time. why is this? if i knew i’d tell you. i try to keep things as up to date as possible but i don’t like wrangling with my scanner and sometimes i get turbobusy so i guess what i’m really saying is updates are sporadic and irregular.

i have a BA (linguistics and women’s studies, double major) from mcgill university and am currently doing a BFA in studio arts at concordia. i have done one (1) gallery show but i table at expozine pretty much every year i can; i’ve done it since 2019, pandemic permitting. i’m new to the formal art world and am very much more at home in DIY spaces, so if you’re from the formal art world and crinkling your nose at how grody my artist statement/portfolio is, gimme a break. i’m still learning!

in case you’re wondering- and i’d put this in an FAQ if i had more Qs to A- yes you can print out any of my zines and assemble them free of charge if you so desire. i sell them already printed occasionally, but don’t let that scare you out of making your own copies if you want.

in terms of influences i take inspiration from Dennis Cooper, Jim Woodring, Chris DiMaggio, Amberra Wellmann, Shari Boyle, the band Xiu Xiu, Henry Darger, and, um, i need to do more research.

ok that’s it. if you like my zines let me know about it. if you like my art let me know about it too. eat your vegetables, don’t forget to lock your bike, don’t swim on a full stomach.

show’s over; go home

 

thank you to will sinclair for this nice photo of me. i have shorter hair now but everything else is the same.

 
 

But Wait I’m Doing Press or Something And Need An Official Bio For You About Your Art And Crap!

Here you go.

Blare Coughlin is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. Born in 1993, he is based in Montreal and heavily entrenched in the city's DIY scene. His work is centred around the idea of obliteration through various means, exploring this concept through a variety of lenses, mostly Gay masculinity, Camping, maximalism, discomfort, and affect theory. Within these frameworks, he works in a wide range of media: prints, paintings, drawings, zines, and fibres. He recieved a BA from McGill University in 2016, and is currently working on his BFA from Concordia. 

 

Accolades, Notable Endeavours, Etc. Etc.

look i gotta put this stuff somewhere ok

  • nominated for the 2021 Expozine Awards for best Literature zine in English

  • drew some stuff for a study on Triqui (an indigenous central american language) which is now open-sourced, so if you’re ever doing fieldwork and need some pictures to prompt phrases you might end up using mine. nice

  • drew some pictures for a hot sauce one time

  • made some posters for some local bands

  • published a book way back when in the alt lit years: it’s called “awry” and it is very out of print. if i can find the pdf for it somewhere i will upload it here, but i have a sneaking suspicion it’s been lost to time. if you have a copy, you’re lucky!

  • got published by poetry will be made by all: https://poetrywillbemadebyall.com/book/pupation/

  • got interviewed by beach sloth for nostrovia press about alt lit: http://www.nostroviatowriting.com/interview-w-blare-coughlin.html#

  • wrote an ebook that made me get minorly alt lit famous (very minorly)