Wellcome has commissioned five photographers from five different countries for The Covid-19 Anxiety Project, which coincides with the submission period for…
Art Quarterly Winter 2020
I reviewed Little Dancer Aged Fourteen by Camille Laurens. The book is published by Les Fugitives, 2020. Art Quarterly is…
I am reaching out to you
For this writing commission for Grain’s Covid-19 Responses project I have used the phrase ‘I am reaching out to you’…
Gin Rimmington Jones / The Writing of Stones
The ground floor of Argentea Gallery is hung with seventeen black and white prints shot on location in the partial…
A gift or a poem
A text commissioned for Birmingham City University’s MA final show online, 2020.
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…
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 Quarterly Summer 2020
I reviewed Art Therapy in Museums and Galleries: Reframing Practice edited by Ali Coles and Helen Jury. Published by Jessica…
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…
I try to write about nature
A text written July 2020.
Anneka French 