Published short-form writing
Pippa El-Kadhi Brown: Stranger Skies
"The boundary between the human and non-human grows fuzzy as body forms slip into the landscape, which is, in a way, closer to the unobservable atomic truth of things."
Gwen Evans: TRYST
"Whether peeping over a neighbouring hedge or spying through a dimly-lit window, we wait for the encroaching figures to meet our gaze, rendering us voyeurs – maybe even complicit."
Hurvin Anderson: Salon Paintings
"...you quickly recognise the individual character of each work, and appreciate the fertile ground of a single, everyday scene to an artist this attuned to life"
Gwen Evans: CIPHER
Dinu Li: A Phantom's Vibe
"The sculptures [...] avoid singular, linear narratives. The hybridity of materials reflects the hybridity of cultural identities."
Johnathan Baldock: Touch Wood
"What would, in other hands, be anachronisms butting up against each other, are, in Baldock’s, a body of work that deftly weaves several themes and timeframes."
John Moores Painting Prize 2024
"Martyn Cross’s ‘The Comin’ Through’ serves as a visual lemon sorbet – a sharp and welcome pause that smacks of those lingering summer evenings."
Albrecht Dürer’s Material World
"Masterfully technical and intricately fantastical, the exhibition reflects the accelerated creativity and innovation of Renaissance Nuremberg."
[Unpublished essay] Gonna Fly Now: Montage and Metaphor
"The painter is not like a boxer-in-training;
The painter is a boxer-in-training."