I have written for Aesthetica Magazine, TLS, PNR, Poetry Review, The London Magazine, Poetry School, Poetry Review, Poetry London and Mslexia, with long-form essays, reviews, interviews, news pieces and cultural commentary across poetry, fiction, art, design, photography, technology, anthropology and the environment.
I have profiled internationally renowned artists, designers and cultural leaders including Jenny Holzer, Doug Aitken, Shirin Neshat and Björk, as well as Pulitzer, TS Eliot, Forward and Booker prize-winning authors including Jorie Graham, Simon Armitage and Emily Berry.
I have worked with curators from global institutions including MoMA, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate, London; MCA Chicago; NGV Melbourne; and MASS MoCA, and has conducted interviews and reviewed titles for major publishers including Aperture, Thames & Hudson, MACK Books, Phaidon, Granta, Carcanet, Bloomsbury, Faber, Bloodaxe, Penguin Random House, Penned in the Margins and Prestel.
LITERARY CRITICISM
Beasts and Superbeasts (on Joanna Bagniewska’s The Modern Bestiary), TLS February 2023
An Intimate Olfactory Exploration of Trees (on David George Haskell’s Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree), TLS, January 2023
Water, not Commodity (on Erica Gies, Water Always Wins), TLS, September 2022
Wasps for Wasps’ Sake (on Seirian Sumner, Endless Forms), TLS, June 2022
To Be Human (on Emily Berry, Polly Atkin and Fiona Benson), Poetry London Issue 102, June 2022
History is Gunk (on Susanne Wedlech, Slime: A Natural History), TLS February 2022
A Series of Little Deaths (on Penelope Lively), The London Magazine, February / March 2022
Positive / Negative Space (on Gail McConnell, Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe & Threa Almontaser), Poetry Review Winter Issue 2021
Salt, Sugar, Sweat: The Aesthetics of Danger (On Lucy Caldwell, Natsuko Imamura & Amber Medland), The London Magazine, August / September 2021
Subversion and Satire (on Luke Kennard & Julian Stannard), Poetry Review Summer Issue 2021
State of Flux (on Annie Freud, Claudine Toutoungi & Phoebe Stuckes), Poetry London Issue 100, 2021
On Ruth Padel’s Beethoven Variations, Poetry School, May 2021
On Simon Armitage’s Magnetic Field, Poetry School, March 2021
Conditions of Survival (on Ella Frears & Daisy Lafarge), Poetry Review Winter Issue 2020
The Entanglements of Consumerism (on Inua Ellams, Tim Cresswell & Abi Palmer), The London Magazine, October / November 2020
Interview, Kirsty Logan on Why We Return to Horror, The London Magazine, October 2020
Review, Andrés Barba, Luminous Republic & Such Small Hands, The London Magazine, May 2020
Review, Peter Stamm, The Sweet Indifference of the World, The London Magazine, February 2020
ESSAYS
Through the Window: acts of looking and seeing between public and private worlds, Magnum Photos, October 2020
Mslexia Issue 86, June 2020
SELECTED ARTS JOURNALISM
Worlds Under Threat: Interview with Floridian photographer Ana Samoylova, Aesthetica Issue 107, June 2022
Facing up to Pollution: Interview with Mandy Barker on Planet or Plastic? at David Brower Center, Berkeley, Aesthetica Issue 105, February 2022
Acts of Preservation: Interview with David Benjamin Sherry on the American Monuments series, Aesthetica Issue 104, December 2021
Through the Window: acts of looking and seeing between public and private worlds, Magnum Photos, October 2020
Tapping into Nature: On Japanese flower artist Azuma Makoto, Aesthetica Issue 95, June 2020
A Scientific Perspective: Interview with Eddo Hartmann on the vulnerability of organic ecosystems in the age of post-industrialisation, Aesthetica Issue 92, December 2019
Visualising the Anthropocene: Interview with Edward Burtynsky, Aesthetica Issue 91, October 2019
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