I interviewed Langlands & Bell on the occasion of their exhibition Degrees of Truth at Sir John Soane’s Museum, London. … More
Author: annekafrench
Meryl McMaster: As Immense as the Sky Review
Calling Me Home (all works 2019) shows a figure dressed in a buffalo mask trimmed with fringing and bandaged horns. She … More
Art Quarterly Winter 2019
I contributed a review of Amalia Pica’s solo exhibition Private & Confidential at The New Art Gallery Walsall to Art … More
Fred Hubble: Hypha – a closer look
“From the cool of the forests, to the saltiness of the sea and the blueness of the sky, Hypha explores climate, transit … More
Ford Street, Arthur and Walter: Living Memory Starting Points
My research with Smethwick Community and History Archives Service has begun with one road in Smethwick – Ford Street (formerly Halford Street). … More
Jaskirt Boora: Mitti Di Khushboo – The Smell of the Land – A closer look
The first time Jaskirt’s mum met her dad was at the airport when she arrived in Birmingham in the late … More
Jon Tonks: Stories of Home – A closer look
A portrait of the Central and Eastern European communities living in Sandwell, home to the biggest Polish population in the … More
Living Memory Project
I’m delighted to be one of twelve creative practitioners involved in Living Memory, a project looking at photographs and life … More
Ericka Beckman and Marianna Simnett Review
The body is perpetually subject to a range of competing personal, political, social and technological concerns. The ways in which … More
A pigsty(e) and a parcel of land
A text produced as part of The Bear and Ragged Staff: Ideas of the Rural residency at The Glasshouse, Leamington … More