Throughout December 2023 – January 2024 I organised a public programme of talks to accompany the exhibition “EASTinternational: Unpacking the Archive” at EAST Gallery, Norwich University of the Arts (2 December 2023 – 3 February 2024). These were hybrid events that occurred in the conference room above the gallery and streamed online. The first ofread more
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centering practice
This photograph, taken in midsummer 1997 by the then assistant curator Kirsty Ogg, shows the Norwich Gallery’s streetside location in the purpose-built historic Norwich School of Design Gunton Building. Visitors to the opening view of the sixth EASTinternational spill out onto the pavement, drinking beer, reclining on cars and chatting with exhibiting artists. Lynda Morris wasread more
“Deposessing the Archive” conference paper at “A Spanner in the Works: Artists’ interventions in museums and archives”, Norwich University of the Arts, Thursday 22 February 2024
On Thursday 22 February 2024 I presented a paper titled “Deposessing the Archive” as part of the conference “A Spanner in the Works: Artists’ interventions in museums and archives” convened by Dr. Mark Wilsher at Norwich University of the Arts. To learn more about the conference click here. At the core of my presentation areread more
EX VOTO, originalprojects;, Great Yarmouth
The title of this group show, “EX VOTO”—a truncation of the Latin ex voto susceptor—translates as “from the vow made.” Curated by Lucy Stein and Sarah Hartnett, a duo also known as the Mary Ley Line Pilgrimage, the exhibition offers works from thirty contemporary artists who share an interest in a secular sense of the divine,read more
Ghislaine Leung: ‘Bosses’ (Divided Press, 2023)
Literal descriptions of things intersperse Bosses, 2023, Ghislaine Leung’s new collection of texts: ‘Index of Services’; ‘Air Passenger Duty’; Avoidable Mortality’. They might be titles for works, such as Public Sculpture, 2018, which I encountered in Suffolk earlier this summer, a taxonomical lineup of toys from a Reading local authority lending library. Produced according toread more
“A Case Study in the International Provincial: EASTinternational, 1991–2009”, conference paper at The British Art Network Annual Conference 2023, Kelvin Hall, Glasgow
On Saturday 25 November 2023 I presented a paper at The British Art Network annual conference titled “British Art After Britain”. My paper, “A Case Study in the International Provincial: EASTinternational, 1991–2009”, was part of the panel “Instituting Amongst: curating at the peripheries” which included presentations Dawn Bothwell (Independent Curator), Gayle Miekle (Newcastle University) andread more
T.J. Clark, ‘If These Apples Should Fall’, in conversation with Jonathan P. Watts
Celebrated art historian T.J. Clark discusses his new book ‘If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present’ (Thames and Hudson Ltd., 2022) at Josey, Norwich with gallery co-director Jonathan P. Watts. The event took place in front of a live audience on Wednesday 19 October 2022. Copies of Clark’s book were provided by Theread more
Naomi Pearce: ‘Innominate’ (Moist, 2023)
Innominate is a hybrid novella – part auto-fiction, part historical mystery – that is the culmination of seven years of research by Naomi Pearce into the undervalued and forgotten work of female administrators in London’s artist-led organisations of the 1970s. Set around a post-industrial factory in the East End’s London Fields, the novella’s structure comesread more
Tower block boy
Maybe all forms of music have their symbolic numbers. Plotted against a conversion table, the letters of J. S. Bach’s surname (2 + 1 + 3 + 8) equal 14: double the seven days of creation – a cipher of perfection that structures many compositions by “the Old Wig”. John Cage used the duration 4’33,read more
Discontents Capitalised
Rachel Maclean’s new video installation in the British Art Show 8, Feed Me, Scene 1 (2015), is a dystopian vision of a city where consensual surveillance, based on visual and consumptive evidence, is used by the corporate director of Smile, Inc. to quantify, optimise and sell happiness and productivity to its youth. Children complete customerread more