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Anneka French

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Kadie Salmon: Restlessly Idling

Kadie Salmon is best known for large-scale black and white photographs, hand-tinted to give a dream-like luminosity, sometimes folded into…

Kadie Salmon, Photomonitor

Art Quarterly Autumn 2020

I’ve reviewed Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency written by Olivia Laing for this issue of Art Quarterly. The book…

Art Fund, Art in an Emergency, Art Quarterly, Funny Weather, Olivia Laing

Art Quarterly Summer 2020

I reviewed Art Therapy in Museums and Galleries: Reframing Practice edited by Ali Coles and Helen Jury. Published by Jessica…

Art Fund, Art Quarterly, Art Therapy in Museums

Everything Looks Different in the Dark: a review of ‘Velvet Black’ by Fleur Olby and ‘Night Blooms’ by Angus Carlyle

Fleur Olby’s ‘Velvet Black’ (2018) and Angus Carlyle’s ‘Night Blooms’ (2020) contain photographs of flowers and other natural phenomena in…

Angus Carlyle, Fleur Olby, Night Blooms, Photomonitor, Velvet Black

I try to write about nature

A text written July 2020.

Anneka French, I try to write about nature

Crisp shells // pink bones

A text written June 2020.

Anneka French, Crisp Shells, pink bones

Coventry Biennial: Communiqué Issue One

I am delighted to release the first in a series of semi-regular Communiqués as part of my curatorial role at Coventry Biennial.

Coventry Biennial, Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, HYPER-POSSIBLE, Matthew Krishanu, Ryan Christopher

Sugar and Water

A text written June 2020.

Anneka French, Creative Black Country, Sugar and Water

Gold Paint

A text written May 2020. Commissioned by Creative Black Country.

Anneka French, Chroma, Creative Black Country, Derek Jarman, Ellmer, Gold Paint, Yves Klein

Ford Street, Arthur and Walter: Living Memory Update

The project has grown through research conducted with the help of Sandwell Community and History Archives Service (CHAS), located close…

Black Country, Living Memory, Sandwell, Sandwell Community and History Archives Service, Smethwick

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