Inverness has a new street artist who goes by the name MicroMischief and for a number of months has been quietly putting-up tiny stickers around the city centre.
The unidentified artist puts up sticker art that engages with their surroundings of tiny characters often in humorous or light-hearted contexts and they have even reached Gairloch’s Sitooterie.
According to the Instagram page the sticker art is “chronicling the lives of Scotland’s smallest residents. They might be wee, but their adventures are huge.”
Many of them are posted in and around Church Street and Queensgate from shops, bars and scaffolding and one even turned up on The Inverness Courier office door (above).
The sticker art is not restricted just to the Highlands, other tags show they have reached further afield proving that “they might be wee, but their adventures are huge.”
They include Aberdeen, different parts of London, Barcelona, a KLM flight from Inverness, Alicante, to name just a few.
Among those featured on their Instagram page are of a small being hanging from a ledge in the Victorian Market and one character is fishing above a fishing sign.
Another is of a young woman doom scrolling on her phone while her dog does a number two in the street, a similar one shows someone in a hoodie doing a pee.
A few stickers are slightly more risqué too – a car with steamed-up windows while the Auctioneers pub is bedecked with a pair of women with their tops off.
Not only is MicroMischief putting up these stickers but they are stashing them for others to find so that they can go further leading to some amusing results.
One image shows a man in a kilt with a net chasing after a haggis – that adorns the sign for the Sitooterie in Gairloch.
Street art remains something alien to the city but in recent years there has been at least one notable exception when The Inverness Courier reported on the excitement about a Banksy-style image appearing under the Friars Bridge.
It emerged that the image used was from a well known Old Inverness black and white photograph showing youngsters hanging around a salmon coble that decades ago used to fish at the Friar’s Shot just upstream of the bridge.
Unfortunately, this celebration of Inverness’s past was ultimately washed away by the rain, damp and the river lapping at the image.
To MicroMischief: We would love to know more so if you want then get in touch with us then we would love to hear from you.