I am one for letting journeys unfold, as planning ahead is not my forte. Sometimes one experience segues into another, like when I managed to get a ticket to the Cut and Run Exhibition at the Glasgow GoMA.

This exhibition is probably the closest Banksy will come to doing a retrospective and sharing something of himself with his astonishingly large audience. 

It is a display of stencils together with some later projects, all of which demonstrated his outsider perspective, a quick clever verbal wit and capacity to combine disparate visual elements to make a coherent, arresting statement. 

Humour and art are powerful subversive weapons. That’s one of the reasons why Banksy’s works resonates and also why I’m drawn to some subversive Cuban art.

However, for me the greatest gift is discovering more about Bansky’s working process. I always love unravelling the ‘how’ of what creative people do irrespective of who they are. 

Footnote: The Glasgow GoMA website highly recommending pre-booking. I tried that; all booked out until July 1 with the only available viewing time at some ungodly hour of the night – yes it’s open all night. Apart from not doing nights so well – sorry Banksy – I’ll be gone by then. I rocked up at the gallery in the morning holding out little hope but the Gallery Gods looked on me favourably and found a booking for 4.30 – pm that is. Some things are meant to be.