‘Fire Ireland’ | Banshee Press
I have been living alone in Dublin, reading Ulysses and The Black Diaries, researching my family history, programming a queer film festival, and coming to terms with my auntie’s stroke...
The Gentrification of Memory: The NYC AIDS Memorial Considered
On December 1st, World AIDS Day 2016, the New York City AIDS Memorial at St Vincent’s Triangle, Greenwich Village, was formally dedicated to the public, 35 years and 100,000 New York deaths after the virus began to transform the city into its fatal American epicentre...
Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh — the Fourdrinier
“The scissors have become more or less an extension of my fingers. It appears to me the same as with the brush and the painter…”
– Phillip Otto Runge, cut-paper silhouette artist, b. 1777
– Phillip Otto Runge, cut-paper silhouette artist, b. 1777
Film Reviews | Beta Bandidos: 'Slow West' Reviewed | The Quietus
Visual arts were Scottish director John Maclean’s first love...
Statue to a Critic | the Fourdrinier
Here is my final article for the Fourdrinier and it seems a fine moment to reflect on my time here, on my writing career at large, and on art writing in general.
Drunk At Vogue: The Last Disco | On Curating
For seven years, my friends and I ran a party named Drunk At Vogue...
Y O U B E L O N G H E R E | Artists Rediscovering Salford's Green Spaces
Drag artist Cheddar Gorgeous uses makeup, costume and performance to create living spectacles and tell stories...
Behind The Times with Sarah Hardacre | the Fourdrinier
A body of new collage work by artist Sarah Hardacre, the result of an 18-month-long collaboration between Sarah and Greg.
My 1980s | Fiction
My first piece of Flash Fiction, published in Ellipsis.
Jo Clements at The Whitaker | Islington Mill
When does the brain become the mind? What does learning feel like? Is experience the same as knowledge? What don’t we know about our brains?
The Reveal Meal, or, You are what you eat | Feast Journal
A white cube gallery setting, table and chairs, a curator, artists, a videographer, an academic, and half a dozen people at various stages of their journey with addiction and recovery...
From South Africa to the Slade: repositioning Albert Adams | Art UK
Fastidious, imaginative and technically brilliant, Albert Adams experimented widely with style and scale throughout his career.
A Mile of Black Paper | Fruit Journal
Reflections on my art installation / project 'A Mile Of Black Paper' for FRUIT Journal
Simon Callow talks about his Lowry show on the life of Jesus | Manchester Evening News
Since his first solo stage outing, Juvenalia, was performed in 1976, it seems Simon Callow has turned the one-man stage show into his forté...