The overriding concerns of Alberta Whittle (b.1980) – how care, community and growth resist experiences of anti-Blackness – are manifest … More
Category: Reviews
Art Quarterly Autumn 2022
I’ve written two pieces for Art Quarterly Autumn 2022: reviews of Vivian Maier: Anthology at MK Gallery and Ruth Millington’s … More
Max Ferguson: Whistling for Owls
Glassine, a smooth, distinctively rustling, semi-translucent paper, is a material I remember from childhood. My father, a teacher with a … More
New Archives: GENERATIONS Archive and My Chosen Family
Someone yawning, a baby with a blurred face, weddings, jazz clubs, caravan holidays and a child in a kilt with … More
GENERATIONS Family interview
Developed by GRAIN Projects in partnership with Multistory as part of Birmingham 2022 Festival, a large-scale cultural programme designed to … More
Julian Germain: GENERATIONS
Julian Germain’s book The Face of the Century (1999) was published to mark the turn of the millennium through portraits of 100 … More
Art Quarterly Summer 2022
I wrote three pieces for Art Quarterly Summer 2022: previews of Adeela Suleman: Allegory of War at MAC Birmingham and … More
Heinz Peter Knes: E.M.T. in MSP
The book E.M.T. in MSP, recently published by German-Swiss Edition Taube, extends a project first exhibited at Gallery Crone in Berlin … More
Ingrid Pollard: Carbon Slowly Turning
Ingrid Pollard migrated from Guyana to London in 1956 and now lives in rural Northumberland. This ambitious new exhibition, for … More
Fertile Myths
A interview with Alice Qianhui Sun about the research and personal experiences that drive her painting and sculptural practice. Read … More