Mr Pinhead & George Wyllie

I spent this afternoon writing about George Wyllie for a catalogue Lyon and Turnbull is producing ahead of an auction of work from his studio.
The auction is being held on August 27th at The Lighthouse in Glasgow.
Lyon and Turnbull is also auctioning work by the late John Cunningham at the same time.
Every time I write about George - and I've written about him a lot over the last couple of years - something new occurs to me.
In the last week, I have been mulling over (with a few other Wyllie Chums) the fact the National Galleries of Scotland still don't have any work by George.
I don't really get it. As witnessed by the response to last year's award-winning Whysman Festival, which celebrated George's life and legacy and brought a brand new generation of admirers to his work, he reaches out beyond the galleries.
He was also hugely influential to the generation of artists that came through Glasgow School of Art at the tail end of the 1980s and included leading contemporary artists, Douglas Gordon and Roderick Buchanan.
Ordinary people get George Wyllie's art, which is layered on so many levels. George used humour as a weapon. It was never purely slapstick.
There was usually always something deeper going on. It didn't always work, but when it did, it could be devastating.
More than 12,000 people, including legions of schoolchildren studying his work, saw the free retrospective exhibition of his work in The Mitchell Library in Glasgow last year.
The response was overwhelmingly positive. I must have missed the elite crew, sailing through with their cravats birling 360 degree turns.
Moves are being made to have George represented in Scotland's national gallery.
What irks me is that certain people are making decisions based on personal taste.
This picture shows Mr Pinhead, a wee unsigned drawing by George which I have at home. There's one like it (signed one) in the auction.
My mum used to talk about people she knew whose heads buttoned up the back. Maybe that happened to Mr Pinhead?