This is an extract of an essay published in Sparke, Massey, Keeble and Martin, eds., Designing the Modern Interior (Berg, 2009) … More
Category: Contemporary Art
Dan Perjovschi: The Power of the Margins
The international art world ‘discovered’ Dan Perjovschi in 1999 when his drawings were displayed in the Romanian Pavilion at the … More
‘Laughing at My Head’ – The ‘Immature’ Art of Neue Bieremiennost
I was commissioned to write a piece about the early years of artist Mirosław Bałka and his colleagues when they … More
Paradise Lost?
This piece was published in Piktogram in 2005. ♦ The Art of Home In 1956 a member of the British … More
Sacrifice, Madness, Ruins and Other Polish Dreams
This essay was written for the catalogue accompanying The Power of Fantasy. Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland at BOZAR … More
Speaking about exhibitions
Last night I went to a talk – of sorts – at the RCA called ‘Spoken Exhibition’ which represents ‘historic’ … More
Electric Birdsong
The University of Brighton Gallery is currently hosting a retrospective exhibition of the work of German sound artist Peter Vogel. … More
Unmonumental monuments
This text appeared in the catalogue for the Steirischer Herbst festival, Graz, 2010