The overriding concerns of Alberta Whittle (b.1980) – how care, community and growth resist experiences of anti-Blackness – are manifest…
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…
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…
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…
GENERATIONS Family interview
Developed by GRAIN Projects in partnership with Multistory as part of Birmingham 2022 Festival, a large-scale cultural programme designed to…
Denise Startin: Hints for British Tourists
A commissioned text to accompany Denise Startin’s solo exhibition at Coventry Artspace’s Arcadia Gallery, 2022. Read in full here.
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…
Gently Bumping
Gently Bumping is a limited-edition collection of texts that sit at the intersection of poetry, prose and life-writing. The book…
Art Quarterly Summer 2022
I wrote three pieces for Art Quarterly Summer 2022: previews of Adeela Suleman: Allegory of War at MAC Birmingham and…
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…