With consummate skill and dedication Ming Smith has created an extraordinary body of work over the last sixty years. Smith’s…
Water pouring through the sink
Wellcome has commissioned five photographers from five different countries for The Covid-19 Anxiety Project, which coincides with the submission period for…
I am reaching out to you
For this writing commission for Grain’s Covid-19 Responses project I have used the phrase ‘I am reaching out to you’…
Gin Rimmington Jones / The Writing of Stones
The ground floor of Argentea Gallery is hung with seventeen black and white prints shot on location in the partial…
A gift or a poem
A text commissioned for Birmingham City University’s MA final show online, 2020.
Kadie Salmon: Restlessly Idling
Kadie Salmon is best known for large-scale black and white photographs, hand-tinted to give a dream-like luminosity, sometimes folded into…
Everything Looks Different in the Dark: a review of ‘Velvet Black’ by Fleur Olby and ‘Night Blooms’ by Angus Carlyle
Fleur Olby’s ‘Velvet Black’ (2018) and Angus Carlyle’s ‘Night Blooms’ (2020) contain photographs of flowers and other natural phenomena in…
I try to write about nature
A text written July 2020.
Crisp shells // pink bones
A text written June 2020.
Coventry Biennial: Communiqué Issue One
I am delighted to release the first in a series of semi-regular Communiqués as part of my curatorial role at Coventry Biennial.
