God, I wish I had gone to art school. But then, if had, I wouldn't have gone to university. The image and the sentence, that's what this is all about. Other people's images and my sentences. Or vice versa.
WEBSITES
2021 ON KAWARA: I GOT UP, I READ, I WENT, I MET, I PAINTED TODAY'S DATE, I AM STILL ALIVE
2020 (begun 2012) Evelyn Waugh: Introduction, Investigation, Treasure Trove, Day Trips, Time Travel, Rhapsody
2020 (begun 2016) Kate Clayton: We are Going to Live Such Lives
2019 (begun 2012). Looking For Enid: Blyton Forever
2019 (begun 2013) Scenes from the Passion. Unofficial guide to the paintings of George Shaw
2018 (begun 2014) Pat is Back
2017. PEN PALS
2017 (begun 2010) Visiting Mabel. 101 blogs
2014 (begun 2012) Strange Bundle
2012. Unofficial Guide to Nobson Newtown
BOOKS
2015. Evelyn! Rhapsody for an Obsessive Love, Harbour Books
2007. George MacDonald 1824-1905, Deveron Arts
2007. Looking For Enid The Mysterious and Inventive Life of Enid Blyton. Portobello Books
2002. The Strangled Cry of the Writer-in-Residence, Grizedale Arts
1998. Personal Delivery, Quartet Books.
JOURNALISM
2021: Waugh's Last Hat. For Valet
2016: Feature on Turner prizewinning group Assemble for Newsweek
2015: Feature on The Line of Beauty: The Lovers, 1943 Magazine
2007. Guest-editor for issue 9 of MAP devoted to contemporary art meets the Scottish Enlightenment
2010-2014. Blog 'Visiting Mabel' for Saga's website.
2005-7. Journey feature for issue 1-8 of MAP
2001-2004. Reviews and features for Art Review.
1999-2003. Features for CVA (later Contemporary Visual Arts, later Contemporary.)
1999-2001. Fortnightly review section for Independent on Sunday
1999. Review for Literary Review
1998-99. Weekly column: ‘Public View’ for Independent on Sunday.
ESSAYS FOR CATALOGUES
2016. For Gavin Wade in Upcycle this Book, Bookworks
2011. For Tracey Mackenna and Edwin Janssen in Exhibitions 11, HICA
2008. For Nathalia Edenmont in Still Life, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm.
2006. For Per Huttner in I Am Not A Curator, Chisenhale Gallery, London
2006. For Laura Ford in Armour Boys, RSA, Edinburgh
2005. For Louise K. Wilson in A Record of Fear, Commissions East, Cambridge.
2004. For Per Huttner in Per Huttner, Curatorial Mutiny, Stockholm.
2004. For Neal Beggs in Moving Sideways, Le Grand Café, Nantes.
2003. For Roxy Walsh in INFALLIBLE: In Search of the Real George Eliot, ARTicle Press, University of Central England.
2003. For Sharon Kivland in Transmission, Sheffield University
2002. For Gavin Wade in Strike, University of Wolverhampton
2001. For Bill Drummond in Stay Here and Make Art, Penkiln Burn.
2001. For Nina Pope in A Public Auction of Private Art Works, Commissions East, Cambridge.
2001. For Neal Beggs in Corridor, CCA
2000. For five artists graduating from the Glasgow MFA, Tramway.
2000. For the BA Fine Art and Art History course, Goldsmiths College
TALKS
2019. On Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop for Chapping Campden Literary Festival
2015: On Evelyn! For Appledore Literary Festival
2015: On Evelyn! For Toppings Bookshop, St. Andrews.
2015: ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place’ for Evelyn Waugh Symposium, Leicester University.
2011: On Evelyn! For Richmond Literary Frestival
2011: On Evelyn! for Evelyn Waugh Symposium, Downside College, Somerset.
2009: On art writing, for Edinburgh School of Art
2009: On art writing for Gray’s School of Art
2008: On Looking For Enid for a private society in York
2007: On Looking For Enid for Wigton Book Festival
2007: On Looking For Enid for the Enid Blyton Society
2000: On Personal Delivery for Goldsmiths
