Publishing

Books:

2021: First Light: Photography Writing Now (paperback, 64 pages), Open Eye Gallery/Waterside Trafford (editor, producer, contributor)

2019: Attention Anthology (paperback, 95 pages), Royal College of Art, ISBN 9781910642450 (co-editor, contributor)  

2019: NOIT – 5: bodies as in buildings (paperback, 324 pages), Royal College of Art/Flat Time House (co-editor, contributor) 

2019: Present Tense: A decade since Liverpool EU Capital of Culture… What now? (paperback, 96 pages), The Double Negative, ISBN 9781527242814 (commissioner, co-editor, contributor)

For a city famous for punching above its weight, a book with a reach far beyond its 100 pages: Present Tense is a purposeful collection of voices that care... about Liverpool, about art, and about cities of culture everywhere.
– Mark Sheerin, freelance arts writer (Hyperallergic, The Arts Desk)

This book provides ten smacks in the face to the idea that art criticism is dead.
– Oliver Basciano, International Editor, ArtReview

2016: Conscious Coupling, The Double Negative/The Royal Standard Writing Residency Zine (co-commissioner, editor)

2012: The Designist: Liverpool's Must-see for the Design Obsessed (paperback, 64 pages with fold-out map), Smiling Wolf Press, ISBN 9780956099921 (co-editor, co-author)

Selected Reviews, Features, Interviews, Essays, Stories, Broadcast:

Jul-Aug 2020: Letter From Helsinki: Dream Archipelago (feature), Art Monthly, London (PRINT) 

Jan 2020: On Bodies: Cézanne’s Crouching Venus (feature), The Fourdrinier, Manchester (ONLINE)

Jan 2020: daring greatly/Let’s Get Stuck In Traffic! (catalogue essay), for artist Marie Jones/Kochi Kochi (PRINT)

Nov 2019: _you feel me , FACT (review), Art Monthly, London (PRINT)

Nov 2019: Art B&B Blackpool (review), BBC Radio 4 Front Row (BROADCAST)

Oct 2019: Real Work , FACT (review), Art Monthly, London (PRINT)

Sep 2019: British Ceramics Biennial (review), BBC Radio 4 Front Row (BROADCAST)

Aug 2019: Binding Social Fibres: Public – You & Me (feature), AirSpace Gallery/The
Double Negative (ONLINE)

Feb 2019: “An artwork’s a key that could unlock you-don’t-know-what.” The Big Interview: Tim Etchells, The Double Negative (ONLINE)

Feb 2019: A Desire To Be Seen and To Be Loved: Ren Hang, The Double Negative (ONLINE)

Untitled, Ren Hang, 2016. Courtesy of Stieglitz19, Belgium

Dec 2018: Ren Hang (review), BBC Radio 4 Front Row (BROADCAST)

Nov 2018: Fernand Léger (review), BBC Radio 4 Front Row (BROADCAST)

Nov 2018: I Just Want to Lie Down (feature), Open Eye Gallery/TILT (PRINT/ONLINE)

Aug 2018: Shouldn't Throw Stones - The View of a Night Watchman (catalogue essay and interview), for photographer Kevin Casey, ISBN 9781789260823 (PRINT)

Aug 2018: Field Trip: “Sweetness overlaying toxicity” — Istanbul, Turkey, The Double Negative (ONLINE)

Aug 2018: Grundy curator Paulette Terry Brien: “The gallery has to be an advocate for resources and opportunities in Blackpool” (interview), a-n (ONLINE)

Jul 2018: The Big Interview: Agnès Varda // Liverpool Biennial 2018, The Double Negative (ONLINE)

Jul 2018: Homecoming: Paulette Constable aka DJ Paulette (interview/front cover), A New Revolution with Ace & Tate x intern magazine (PRINT/ONLINE)

Jun 2018: In Cupped Hands: A Response To Susan Gunn’s Ground Evolution, HOME MCR/

The Double Negative (PRINT/ONLINE)

Apr 2018: Teresa Eng's Instagram (feature), Open Eye Gallery/TILT (PRINT/ONLINE)

Apr 2018: Volkan Aslan Charts Istanbul’s Political Turmoil (feature), Elephant, London (ONLINE)

Nov 2017: At Glasgow’s sonic-art biennial, gameplay becomes theatrical (opinion), frieze, London (ONLINE)

Sep 2017: Otherworldly Sound Art that Repels and Attracts, Turin (review), Hyperallergic, New York (ONLINE)

Aug 2017: Aleksandra Mir, Modern Art Oxford and Tate Liverpool, UK (review), frieze, London (PRINT/ONLINE)

Jul 2017: Adrián Villar Rojas Excavates Greece’s National Identity, Athens (review), Hyperallergic, New York (ONLINE)

Apr 2017: The Black Charismatic: Theaster Gates & The Black Monks of Mississippi’s latest project for IHME Festival, Helsinki (profile), frieze, London (ONLINE)

Apr 2017: Letter From Hull (feature), Art Monthly, London (PRINT)

Dec 2016-Jan 2017: Letter From Warsaw (feature), Art Monthly, London (PRINT)

Oct 2016: Shapes of Water – Sounds of Hope: A report from the culmination of Suzanne Lacy’s 18-month project at Brierfield Mill, Lancashire, frieze, London (ONLINE)

Aug 2016: Liverpool Biennial Fringe (review), ArtReview, London (ONLINE)

Jul 2016: New Contemporaries 2016: muted and curiously polite (review), a-n (ONLINE)

Jul 2016: A Q&A with… Liv Wynter (interview), a-n (ONLINE)

Jul 2016: Tromarama (review), ArtReview Asia, London (PRINT)

Jun 2016: Should We Stay or Should We Go? A range of artists, writers, directors and curators present their opinions on the impending EU referendum, frieze, London (ONLINE)

May 2016: Liverpool Round Up: Fruits of the Lûm/Double Act: Art and Comedy (review), Art Monthly, London (PRINT)

Mar 2016: AL and AL: Incidents of Travel in the Multiverse (review), Art Monthly, London (PRINT)

Feb 2016: Black Artists and Modernism: “There are some remarkable stories to be discovered” (feature), a-n (ONLINE)

Feb 2016: Works to Know by Heart: An Imagined Museum / Follow (review), Art Monthly, London (PRINT).

Kekeletso Khena Green Market Square Cape Town 2012 © Zanele Muholi.
Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York

Oct 2015: Glow in the dark art: new skatepark sheds light on Everton (feature, a-n (ONLINE)