Eyecontact, 24 December ___ I wasn’t going to review this show but I kept circling back to it – because if not me then who?—and it is a show worth a review because it works the way a circle works, so don’t redesign the wheel—eight double-sided fabric banners of circles—some […]
Yearly Archives: 2017
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Eyecontact, 12 Decemeber ___ But is it art? I’m not sure I care. Precinct 35 is a design store with a nifty little gallery out the back. And The Sun Department is the most exceptional exhibition I’ve seen there yet. Mark Alsweiler’s paintings and sculptures may be neither art or design but […]
Litro Magazine, 9 December 2017. _____ How to describe Skype’s aquatic ring tone? That digital threshold of rising blips and sinking bloops. For some it is the sweet sound of being wanted. For others it is scary. For others still it sounds like an Owl City Song. For me, it can only […]
Here’s the speech I read out at the launch of Tinderbox, my first book, in London, November 2017. When I was writing Tinderbox I occasionally read things out loud to my partner. Then I asked: Does this sound stupid? Does this make sense? Is it boring? So if you have […]
Art News, Summer 2017 __________ Turn a corner in one of Daniel Unverricht’s hardboiled paintings and you might find yourself in a tight spot. In the dark, on your own and down on your luck. His carparks, derelict streets and shops after hours paint a picture of night-time in a […]
Home Magazine, 2 October 2017 _________ Here’s a plan: if a Hollywood movie was made of her life she’d be played by the actress Kirsten Wiig because the artist Christina Read is funny and goofy and charming. And also because she makes self-reflexive art painfully aware of its own verbal […]
My first book Tinderbox has been published by Galley Beggar Press, UK. It is about the end of the Borders book chain, Julie Christie and me – but not necessarily in that order. It is also about Ray Bradbury, censorship and the end of the world – but not necessarily in […]
Art Asia Pacific, August 25, 2017 ________ In 1978, graduate student Charles Burnett produced Killer of Sheep for his thesis, salvaging the black-and-white film stock from the “short ends” discarded by production houses. Set in Burnett’s Watts neighbourhood, it tells the story of Stan, a slaughterhouse worker, and his unravelling relationship with […]
The Pantograph Punch, 18 May, 2017 ___ He was a nail biter in his youth. In adulthood, a painter of envelopes, and fridge notes, of boxes and concrete poetry. Austin likes to play word games and his elusive art has been said to borrow from the logic of ideograms, crosswords, […]