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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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Bristol, Isabelle Cornaro, Spike Island, Témoins ocula­ires

(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…

(M)imosa / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church, Arnolfini, Bristol, Cecilia Bengolea, Francois Chaignaud, Gathering Storm, IBT15, In Between Time, Marlene Freitas, Mimosa, review, Trajel Harrell

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…

IBT15, In Between Time

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…

Arts Based Masters Programme, Birmingham City University, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham School of Art, BOM, Cathy Wade, higher education, Karen Newman, lecture, Susan May, teaching

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