I have a particular interest in site-specific and installation art in line with my PhD research (see my research page for more detail), as well as sculpture, performance art, Australian art, museology, art and feminism, museum architecture, arts policy and language. I occasionally also write on librarianship and information management, born from my frustration with poorly indexed art publications. I have a blog which I occasionally update with musings on art and culture: hobART. In 2016, I was the arts editor of Warp Magazine.
A selection of recent published articles and essays:
‘Jo Chew: stitches held fast by a brush’, Artist Profile 68, 2024: 102-108
‘Zoe Grey’, Artist Profile 67, 2024: 136-138.
ELAAA v1.1 & Micheila Petersfield: Personae, Weekend Review, Artist Profile, 25 April 2024.
Jónsi Hrafntinna (Obsidian), and Jean-Luc Moulène and Teams, Artist Profile 66, 2024: 166-169.
‘Reflections on Artlands 2023 and Beyond’, Regional Arts Australia, 10 January 2024.
‘The International Association of Art Critics inaugural Academy’, ArtsHub, 13 December 2023.
‘Festival Review: The Unconformity, Queenstown’, ArtsHub, 11 November 2023.
‘Exhibition review: Holding Pattern, Haus of Vovo’, ArtsHub, 31 August 2023.
‘Michael Schlitz’, Artist Profile 64, 2023.
‘Philip Wolfhagen: A light on the Midlands’, Artist Profile 62, 2023: 148-9.
‘Playing Georgia Lucy’, Artist Profile 61, 2022: 178.
‘Documenta Fifteen’, Artist Profile 60, 2022: 168-173.
‘Genevieve Felix Reynolds: Abstracting the Archives’, Artist Profile 57, 2021: 52-56.
‘Patrick Hall: Made of Broken Pieces’, Artist Profile 56, 2021: 166-7.
‘Georgia Spain: a messiness of bodies’, Artist Profile 55, 2021
‘Matthew Simms: the storyteller’, Artist Profile 54, 2021: 120-125.
‘Terra Incognita: A duck-billed what?’ in Milojevic, Milan, Terra Incognita: A duck-billed what', 2021: 7-13.
‘The Guests: Michael Vale’, Artist Profile 52, 2020: 152-3.
‘Mind the Gap: Julie Gough’s ‘Tense Past’ at TMAG’, Art Monthly Australia 319, 2019: 36.
‘Domestic Craft’. Catalogue essay to accompany the exhibition, Domestic Craft, Rosny Barn, Hobart, December 2019.
‘Michaye Boulter’, Artist Profile 48, 2019: 116-120.
‘Master at Work’, Imprint 54, no. 2, 2019: 17-20.
‘Geoff Dyer: the Last Portraits’, Artist Profile 47, 2019: 142-143. [online version]
‘Art at a Glance: Tasmania’s Roadside Gallery’, Garland 11, 2018.
'Hobiennale Arts Festival', Realtime, 27 November, 2017.
‘Brigita Ozolins’, Warp Magazine, December, 2016: 18. Longer version of the interview published on my blog, hobART.
‘Festival for a Town that Doesn’t Conform’, Realtime 135, 2016.
‘Leo Kelly and the Three Days Darkness’, Warp Magazine, November 2016: 20.
‘Internationals, Locals, Any Body & Every Body’, Realtime 135, 2016.
‘Parr’s Penance: ‘Asylum’ at Willow Court’, Art Monthly Australasia 293, 2016: 47.
‘The Unconformity’, Warp Magazine, October, 2016: 22.
‘Ponderous Tossers and Twee Drips’, in Stuck in the Mud. Exhibition Catalogue. Sydney: Verge Gallery, 2016: 7-8.
‘When Words Fail Emotion’, Warp Magazine, September, 2016.
‘Pokémon: it’s not cute by accident’, Warp Magazine, August, 2016.
‘Budgeting for the Soul’, Warp Magazine, June, 2016. Republished on my blog.
'Instasaturated', Warp Magazine, March, 2016. Republished on my blog as 'Instasaturated: the Tasmanian Landscape on Instagram'.
‘In Response: Community Criticality and Play’, Runway Australian Experimental Art, 29 April, 2016.
‘The Lifecycle and Deathcycle of ARIs’, Runway Australian Experimental Art, 1 April, 2016.
'Venice Biennale: The Art of Housing Art', Realtime 127, 2015: 52-53.
‘Beyond the Gate’, catalogue essay for Amber Koroluk-Stephenson’s Beyond the Gate (2014), Bett Gallery, Hobart. Essay can be downloaded from Bett Gallery.
‘In Defence of Pretty’, Warp, August: 20. 2014
‘The Creatures of Perry’s Realm’, catalogue essay to accompany Joel Crosswell’s Perry’s Realm (2014), Bett Gallery, Hobart. Essay can be downloaded from Bett Gallery or my UTAS research page.
‘The Curious Business-speak of Tasmanian Arts Policy’, The Conversation, 14 March2014.
‘All that Glisters is Not Gold’, catalogue essay for Amber Koroluk-Stephenson’s Quixotic Habitation (2013). MOP projects, Sydney. Essay can be downloaded from my UTAS research page.
'The Museum as Art: site-specific art in Australia's public museums.' PhD thesis, 2013. A PDF of my thesis can be accessed from my UTAS research page.
‘Hail MONA! But what about the rest of Tasmanian art?’, The Conversation. 27 October2013.
‘If I Could Have’, Art Collector 66, 2013: 178-9.
'MOP@Constance', Constance Critique, 2013.
‘Joel Crosswell’, catalogue essay to accompany Joel Crosswell’s Pop Tarts Present: Joel Crosswell (2013). Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney.
'Inflight ARI in Partnership with Queenstown Heritage Festival', Artlink 32, no. 4. 2012: 82-83.
'Public Art and Its Audience' Realtime 106, 2011: 43.
'Sue Lovegrove: The Shape of Wind', Artlink 3, no 2. 2010.
'Unexpected Art', Realtime 91. 2009: 17.