Outrider recently toured to Winterbourne House and Gardens, Birmingham, 27 March – 4 May 2015.My texts Cath Keay Megan Powell There … More
Author: annekafrench
Recent exhibitions – Gothic
Images from the recent ‘Gothic‘ exhibition at Library of Birmingham, 7 April – 2 May 2015. The exhibition was curated … More
Field Notes and Other Fictions, David Bethell
I’ve been working on an essay for a publication to accompany David Bethell‘s upcoming exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery. Titled Dr … More
Niki de Saint Phalle
In the episode ‘Shoot’, young suburban housewife and mother Betty Draper shocks the small-screen audience of ‘Mad Men’ by calmly … More
inserting moments and embedding memories, catalogue essay
Earlier this year I was commissioned to write a catalogue essay for The Bed Race Project, a series of interventions … More
A K Dolven: please return
A K Dolven’s work is supremely elegant. Exploring her body’s sensual relationship to the Norwegian landscape that she calls home … More
Digital text in Gothic exhibition
I am delighted to be exhibiting in the exhibition ‘Gothic’ at the Library of Birmingham. Curated by artist Grace Williams, … More
Birmingham Show
Curated by Ruth Claxton and Gavin Wade, ‘Birmingham Show’ at Eastside Projects proposes three specific questions as starting points from … More
An essay on Dean Melbourne
Dean Melbourne’s paintings are invitations into secret, forgotten and imagined places, places where nature runs wild and people live at … More
Témoins oculaires
Surely there is something of a magpie in all of us: an attraction to gloss, to bright colours and to … More