In the episode ‘Shoot’, young suburban housewife and mother Betty Draper shocks the small-screen audience of ‘Mad Men’ by calmly…
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…
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…
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,…
Birmingham Show
Curated by Ruth Claxton and Gavin Wade, ‘Birmingham Show’ at Eastside Projects proposes three specific questions as starting points from…
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…
Témoins oculaires
Surely there is something of a magpie in all of us: an attraction to gloss, to bright colours and to…
(M)imosa / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church (M)
I wanted to be a dancer when I was a child. My mother booked me ballet lessons, but after a…
Fog / Fire in the Lungs, In Between Time Festival
Today I have to steam the floor in the gallery. I have to erase all traces of blood-paint from its…
Lectures at Birmingham School of Art, February 2015
I’m looking forward to getting back into some higher education teaching in the next couple of weeks at the beautiful…