news
2021
2021
review, Sandra Mujinga, The Approach, London, Art in America, May
interview, Lawrence Weiner, organised by the South London Gallery, 30 Mar
How to Write about Contemporary Art featured in .ART’s recommended book for artists
interview with Gilda Williams, ‘The Art of the Interview Meets the Art of Writing‘, with Evlyne Laurin at .ART
2020
online artist’s conversation, ‘Amalia Ulman’, Tate Modern. Available to watch online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ9QCcF8j9c&feature=youtu.be (talk begins at 9:00!) In solidarity with Tate Commerce my speaker’s fee will be donated to the Tate Commerce Strike Fund. Please help if you can: https://www.gofundme.com/f/tate-commerce-strike-fund
evaluator, Arts Writers Grant Program, The Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital, New York
external examiner, MA Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London
editor, Fiona Tan. A Reader: With the Other Hand, with Snoeck/Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg/Kunsthalle Krems
contributor, ‘Autodidacts on Autopilot: Familiar Narratives, Self-Taught Artists and Other Stories‘ in Autodidacts: from Van Gogh to Pirosmani, symposium conceived by Bice Curiger at the Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles.
contributor, ‘The Otolith Group’, in Science Fiction, ‘Documents of Contemporary Art’ series (MIT Press/Whitechapel), ed. Dan Byrne-Smith. Artforum review, The Showroom, Dec 2009.
contributor, ‘A Spin in Bayonne: Steven Pippin’s Laundromat-Locomotion, 1997‘ in Running, Falling, Flying, Floating, Crawling, ed. Mark Alice Durant, Saint Lucy Books.
compiler, e-flux.com Reader on ‘Love‘
interview with Gilda Williams, ‘Expectation v. Reality in the Art World: On Being an Art Critic‘, Made in Bed magazine, May 2019
interview with Gilda Williams, ‘An Art-writer’s Guide to the Universe’, Academy of the Arts, Vilnius, Feb 2019
Recent writing
catalogue essay, ‘Very British with a Hint of America: On the Hybrid Art of Damien Hirst‘, Fondation Cartier, Paris, June 2021
‘Stand and Deliver: On Phyllida Barlow‘, in Frontier, Haus Der Kunst Munich, with texts by Phyllida Barlow, Briony Fer, Alex Potts, Damian Lentini, Lisa Paland, U. Wilmes
interview, Jill Magid: The Other Woman, Art Monthly, Feb 2021
movie review, El Planeta (‘a comedy about eviction’), dir. Amalia Ulman, in Artforum.com 1 Feb 2021
‘Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers)‘ at Tiwani Contemporary, Artforum (Mar 2021)
‘Tavares Strachan‘ at Marian Goodman, Artforum (Dec 2020)
‘Cao Fei‘, at Serpentine Gallery, Art in America (Oct 2020)
‘Khadija Saye‘, at 236 Westbourne Grove, Artforum (Oct/Nov 2020)
‘Brigid Berlin, 1939-2020‘, Art Monthly (Sept 2020)
‘No Martins‘, at Jack Bell, Artforum (Sept 2020)
‘Joey Holder‘, at ex-Springhealth Pool and Spa, Artforum (July/Aug 2020)
‘Myra Greene‘, at Tommaso Corvi-Mora, Artforum (June 2020)
‘Jade Montserrat‘, at Iniva, Artforum (April 2020)
‘Andy Warhol at Tate Britain‘, frieze (Mar 2020)
‘Mark Leckey‘, at Tate Britain, Artforum (Jan 2020)
Recent teaching
teaching, ‘Writing for Curators‘ (co-teacher, Rianna Jade Parker), Goldsmiths Curating MFA
lecture, ‘Effective Art Writing‘, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, Jan 2021
lecture, ‘Hito Steyerl‘, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, Feb 2021
teaching, ‘Writing for Artists‘, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, Feb 2021
visiting tutor, MFA programme, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, Oct 2020
workshop, ‘Writing about Art, for Artists’, Acme Studios, London, Sept 2020
teaching, ‘Writing for Artists‘ (co-teacher, Erica Scourti), Goldsmiths MFA, Mar-May 2020