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Anneka French

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Recent exhibitions – Outrider

Outrider recently toured to Winterbourne House and Gardens, Birmingham, 27 March – 4 May 2015.My texts Cath Keay Megan Powell There … More

Alfred Watkins, Outrider, photography, Winterbourne House and Garden, writing

Recent exhibitions – Gothic

Images from the recent ‘Gothic‘ exhibition at Library of Birmingham, 7 April – 2 May 2015. The exhibition was curated … More

Gothic, Grace A. Williams, Library of Birmingham

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

Anna Falcini, David Bethell, Dr Bird Conquering Clouds, exhibition, Field Notes and Other Fictions, publication, Wolverhampton Art Gallery

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

Bilbao, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Niki de Saint Phalle, review, this is tomorrow

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

Amelia Beavis-Harrison, Garry Winters, Liam Aitken, Samuel Mercer, The Great Knaresborough Bed Race, Yorkshire

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

A K Dolven, Birmingham, exhibition review, Ikon Gallery, please return

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

exhibition, Gothic, Library of Birmingham, writing

Birmingham Show

Curated by Ruth Claxton and Gavin Wade, ‘Birmingham Show’ at Eastside Projects proposes three specific questions as starting points from … More

Anna Barham, Antonio Roberts, Birmingham, Birmingham Show, Easton Hurd, Eastside Projects, Gavin Wade, Keith Piper, Leah Carless, Meghan Allbright, Mohammed Ali, New Art WM, review, Richard Hughes, Roger Hiorns, Ruth Claxton, Sofia Hulten

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

Coates & Scarry, Dean Melbourne, essay, painting

Témoins ocula­ires

Surely there is something of a magpie in all of us: an attraction to gloss, to bright colours and to … More

Bristol, Isabelle Cornaro, Spike Island, Témoins ocula­ires

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