Category: Writing

Death is coming

Death is coming

The Autumn 2025 issue of Sluice magazine is out at the start of November. Order now!

Gallerinas & Grifters in Sluice Spring/Summer 2025

Gallerinas & Grifters in Sluice Spring/Summer 2025

New mini-RPG by me in Sluice Magazine, 2025.

The Creative Freelancer’s Climate Almanac

The Creative Freelancer’s Climate Almanac

The Creative Freelancer’s Climate Almanac by Julie's Bicycle offers tailored resources for artists engaging in climate action, with templates, case studies, and self-care tips to avoid burnout. Featuring Unbuilt Environments.

The Last Year of the Inequity Olympics

The Last Year of the Inequity Olympics

My new article for Artquest on the UK arts sector's failure to make meaningful change.

Four Things I Have Unlearned

Four Things I Have Unlearned

Read 'Four Things I Have Unlearned' by Alistair Gentry, in Sluice magazine's Autumn/Winter 2024 issue, Unlearning.

The Price of Everything

The Price of Everything

New article about disabled artists making a living at Axisweb.

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know

Article at Disability Arts Online.

On the magazine AND in it…

On the magazine AND in it…

Autumn 2021 issue out now, with a LOT of me.

Award Yourself

Award Yourself

Article from the Spring 2021 issue of Sluice magazine.

Sluice Magazine, Autumn/Winter 19-20

Sluice Magazine, Autumn/Winter 19-20

The latest issue of Sluice magazine is out now. The theme this time is looking to the natural world and to deep time for survival strategies. As usual I wrote an article for the magazine, and there's the now traditional cheeky decontextualised quote from it on the back cover... Londonians may wish to join us … Continue reading Sluice Magazine, Autumn/Winter 19-20

When you’re an artist, every night is drag night

When you’re an artist, every night is drag night

My article in the spring/summer 2019 edition of Sluice magazine.

Look clean, so you can be really filthy

Look clean, so you can be really filthy

My column in the spring 2019 issue of Sluice magazine.

YOU WERE ONLY SUPPOSED TO BLOW THE BLOODY DOORS OFF

YOU WERE ONLY SUPPOSED TO BLOW THE BLOODY DOORS OFF

The Bank Job, London.

Not Neutrality

Not Neutrality

My latest blog for The Open Data Insititute.

Am I a Local Artist?

Am I a Local Artist?

My column from the autumn/winter 2018 edition of Sluice Magazine.

A HUMANISING FORCE

A HUMANISING FORCE

Manchester, November 2018.

Dystopians Just Wanna Have Fun

Dystopians Just Wanna Have Fun

I'll destroy you with my mini-submarine, Mr Bond.

Sluice magazine: Don’t Look Down

Sluice magazine: Don’t Look Down

My column from the previous issue of Sluice magazine is now online, on the pervasive metaphorical debt of the art world, the perpetual actual debt of artists, and lazy little millennial fucks. The new issue is out very shortly, with more of my columnage.

Behind the Curtain: art and trust

Behind the Curtain: art and trust

Art at the Open Data Institute.

Artists and Mental Health

Artists and Mental Health

Summary of my research on the mental health of artists for a-n: the artists information company.