Category: Art

Odeum at Milan Design Week

As is now traditional (well, three years in a row), I collaborated with CTRLZAK Studio and JCP to provide names and narratives for a collection of hybrid but functional art-design objects for sale, with their premiere at the Salone del Mobile of Milan Design Week 2018. We got particularly kinky this year, with references to … Continue reading Odeum at Milan Design Week →

All real artists get turned into a doll

I was inspired– negatively, so... unspired?– by the fuss about a recent Frida Kahlo Barbie doll, of which the doll itself was probably the least offensive thing. Yes, it somewhat cleaned and prettied up a woman rightly famous for being a feminist and a communist who was ahead of her time in foregrounding … Continue reading All real artists get turned into a doll →

The Portland Office for Imaginary History 2018

The Portland Office for Imaginary History is re-opening in September 2018!

Artists and mental health

New article for a-n News.

Five Types of Art Writer You Should Die Before You See

My latest column for Sluice magazine.

Artists are human too: the realist residency

Towards a fair artist residency.

Queer art in the UK

Notes on two new exhibitions of work by queer artists.

Venice Agendas at Folkestone Triennial: Opportunity, Unfortunately

Folkestone, Saturday 23rd September 2017.

Post election breakfast at Assembly Bristol, June 9th

9am-12, Friday 9th June at The Brunswick Club, Bristol.

What They Didn’t Teach You in Art School

I contributed my wisdom (?) to this book by Rosalind Davis and Annabel Tilley. As a famous idiot once said (and as referred to on page 9 of the book itself!), there are known unknowns and there are unknown unknowns, and I think many artists reading this book will realise how many unknown unknowns they've … Continue reading What They Didn’t Teach You in Art School →