ESSAYS AND SHORT TEXTs

*denotes a text included in In Land

‘Land and Colour: On Onya McCausland’s Six Bells Work’ in Onya McCausland: 51°43 33.56 N 3°07 58.63 W, Karsten Schubert, London,2021

‘From Time To Time: Notes on Jem Finer’s Sonic Ray’ in Jem Finer: Sonic Ray, Artangel, London, 2021

‘Fred Sorrell: Weaving Light’ in Fred Sorrell: Long Tide, Parafin, London, 2020

‘Justin Mortimer: Fake News / Foreign Bodies’ in Justin Mortimer: It Is Here, exh cat., Parafin, London, 2017

‘Alison Watt: Northern Ligh’t in Alison Watt: The Sun Never Knew How Wonderful It Was, exh cat., Parafin, London, 2016

‘The Outsiders: Notes on Enrique Martinez Celaya’s New Work’ in Enrique Martinez Celaya: Self and Sea, exh cat., Parafin, London, 2016

‘What Is Land Art?’ in Land–Shape Festival 2015, exh cat., Land-Shape project, Jutland, Denmark, 2016

‘Uwe Wittwer: Cracked Narratives’ in Uwe Wittwer: Cracking Glass (after Jarman), Parafin, London, 2015

‘Introduction’ in Nancy Holt: Locators, exh cat., Parafin. London, 2015

‘Introduction’ in Hynek Martinec: Intellectual Properties, exh booklet, Vaclav Spala Gallery, Prague, 2015

‘Mapping Memory’ in Michelle Stuart: Trace Memory, exh cat., Parafin, London, 2015

 ‘Wood Primer: Material , Process, Time’ in David Nash, exh cat., Kukje Gallery, Seoul, 2015 [revised version, reprinted from YSP catalogue, 2010]

 *‘Fire and Water: Notes on Cai Guo-Qiang’s Unmanned Nature’, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 2015 (http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/collection/research/essays)

 ‘Introduction’ in Hugo Wilson, exh cat., Parafin + Lecturis, London, 2015

 ‘Tim Head: In the Library of Babel’ in Tim Head: Fictions, exh cat., Parafin + Lecturis. London 2014

*‘Katie Paterson: Sand and Stars’, in Katie Paterson, exh cat., Kunsthalle Springhornhof, 2014

‘*The Secret Landscape: Anya Gallaccio and Orford Ness’, Aldburgh Festival programme, 2014

‘Hynek Martinec: Always Present’ in Hynek Martinec: Every Minute You Are Closer to Death, exh cat., Parafin, London, 2014

‘Sanam Khatibi: Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures’ written on the occasion of the exhibition Sanam Khatibi: Seduire ou crever de faim, Island, Brussels, 2014

‘Meekyoung Shin: Chinese Whispers, English Echoes, Korean Ghosts’ in Meekyoung Shin, exh cat., Korean Cultural Centre, London, 2013

*‘What is or may be inherited’: Notes on Heritage’ in Cai Guo Qiang: Falling Back to Earth, exh cat., Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2013

‘David Nash: A Meeting of Creative Minds’ in Kew Magazine, Autumn, 2012, p.72

*‘The Ploughed Field’ in Gunther Uecker: Violations – Connections, exh cat., Haunch of Venison, New York, 2012

*‘Introduction’ in Nancy Holt: Photoworks, exh cat., Haunch of Venison, London, 2012

*‘Atomic Tourism and False Memories: Cai Guo-Qiang’s The Century with Mushroom Clouds’, Tate Papers, # 17, spring 2012 (www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers)

*‘Foot Steps / Full Circle’ in Richard Long: Karoo Highveld, Haunch of Venison, London 2011. Reprinted in Clarrie Wallis (ed.), A Richard Long Reader, Ridinghouse, London, 2017

*‘To Touch, To Wait, To Grow, To Repeat’ in Giuseppe Penone, exh cat., Haunch of Venison, London, 2011

‘Frank Stella: Connections’ in Frank Stella: Connections (ed.), exh cat., Hatje Cantz, 2011

‘Katie Paterson: 100 Billion Suns’, Team Impression (www.team.co.uk), June 2011

*‘An Everyday Life: Cai Guo-Qiang in Mexico’ in Cai Guo-Qiang: Sunshine and Solitude, exh cat., Museo Universitario Arte Contemporanea (MUAC), Mexico City, 2010

*‘Wood Primer’ and ‘Notes on The Family Tree’ in David Nash, exh cat., Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, 2010

*‘Dreaming and Seeing: The Work of Thomas Joshua Cooper’ in Thomas Joshua Cooper: TRUE, exh cat., Centro de Arte y Naturaleza (CDAN), Huesca, 2010

*‘Gazing at the Void: Notes on Thomas Joshua Cooper’s Polar Pictures’ in Thomas Joshua Cooper: True, exh cat., Haunch of Venison, 2009

‘Anton Henning’ in Sculpture in Painting, exh cat., Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 2009

*‘Maps and Mazes: New Work by Frances Kearney’ in Frances Kearney, exh cat., Norwich Arts Centre, Contemporary Arts Norwich (CAN), 2009

‘Pascal Danz: Blind Spots’ in Locuslex Magazine #3, October 2009

‘Cobwebs and Curiosities, Serpents and Skulls’ in Mythologies (ed.), exh cat., Haunch of Venison, London, 2009

‘Keith Coventry: Black Paintings’ in Keith Coventry: Vanishing Certainties (ed.), exh cat., Haunch of Venison, London, 2009

*‘The Body in the Landscape: Land Art, Birth and Burial’ in Liz Wells and Simon Standing (eds.) Landscape Fictions, Plymouth University Press, 2008

 ‘Introduction’ (with Tamar Garb) in Home Lands / Land Marks: Contemporary Art from South Africa, exh cat., Haunch of Venison, London, 2008

*‘Introduction’ in Richard Long: Selected Statements and Interviews (ed.), Haunch of Venison, London, 2007

‘Displacements: The Art of Prunella Clough’ in Prunella Clough (ed.), exh cat., Tate Britain, London and tour, 2007

‘Jamie Shovlin: Another Country’ in Jamie Shovlin: A Dream Deferred, Haunch of Venison, London 2007

‘Unified Field Theories’ in Anton Henning: Oasis, exh cat., Haunch of Venison, London, 2007

‘Introduction’ in James Rosenquist (ed.), exh cat., Haunch of Venison, London, 2006

‘About Looking: An Introduction to the Art of Al Taylor in Five Easy Pieces’ in Al Taylor, exh cat., Haunch of Venison, London, 2006

‘Silke Otto-Knapp’, Art Now, Tate Britain, London, 5 November 2005 15 January 2006

‘Power and Beauty: The Prints of Colin Self’ in Printmaking Today, Vol.13, No.4, Winter 2005

‘Painted Mountains’ in Julian Cooper: Paretti Ghiacci Precipizi, exh cat., Museo Nazionale della Montagne, Turin, 2005

‘Andrew Grassie: New Hang’ Art Now, Tate Britain, London, 5 May - 19 June 2005

‘Boyd and Evans: Strange Moments’ in Boyd & Evans: Landmarks, exh cat., Milton Keynes Gallery, 2005

‘Painting Facts: The Art of Karl Weschke’ in Karl Weschke: Beneath A Black Sky: Paintings and Drawings 1953 – 2004 (ed.), exh cat., Tate St Ives, 2004

‘Fragments and Inscriptions’ [etc] in Alfrey, Daniels and Postle (eds.), Art of the Garden, exh cat., Tate Britain, London and tour, 2004

‘Colin Self and the Bomb’ in Chris Stephens and Katharine Stout (eds.), Art & The 60s: This Was Tomorrow, exh cat., Tate Britain, London and tour, 2004

‘Under False Colours’ in Jane Dixon: Under False Colours, exh cat., Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, 2005

‘Willie Doherty’ in Turner Prize 2003, exh cat., Tate Britain, 2003

‘Gillian Carnegie’, ‘Dexter Dalwood’, ‘Ian Davenport’, ‘Peter Doig’,’Richard Hamilton’ and ‘Tim Head’ in Judith Nesbitt and Jonathan Watkins (eds.), Days Like These: The Tate Triennial of Contemporary British Art, exh cat., Tate Britain, London, 2003

‘The walls of the gallery were splattered with blood: The Portraits of Cedric Morris’ in Cedric Morris and Lett Haines: Teaching Art and Life (ed.), exh cat., Norwich Castle Museum and National Museums & Galleries of Wales, Cardiff, 2002

‘Miles and Miles and Miles of Desolation’ in On The Edge, exh cat., North Norfolk Exhibitions Project, Salthouse Church, 2002

‘Introduction’ in Hamish Fulton: Walking Journey (ed.), exh cat., Tate Britain, London, 2002

 ‘Beth Harland’ in Art Review, Vol LIII, July/August 2001

‘Michael Andrews: Zen and The Art of Painting’ in Tate Magazine Summer 2001

‘Illuminations: Michael Andrews, Mailer and Rimbaud’ in British Art Journal, Spring/Summer, 2001

‘Michael Raedecker’ in Turner Prize 2000, exh cat., Tate Britain, 2000

‘New Paintings’ in David Spiller, exh cat., Beaux Arts, London, 2000 [reprinted in David Spiller, Gallery Guy Pieters, Knokke, Belgium, 2003]

‘Colin Self’s Maximalism’ in Modern Painters, Autumn 1998

‘An A-Z of Pop’ in Pop Art (ed.), exh cat., Norwich Castle Museum, 1997