art writing: essays/scripts/reviews/features


PUBLISHED WORKS OF ART IN TEXT FORM please follow links for PDF file download
2011
"Seeking a Meridian," photoroman, essays and photography for exhibition at Galerie de Roussan, Paris.
"Benevolent Asylum: an eclipse of historical fiction," illustrated program and extracts from performance text for Fremantle Arts Centre.
2010
"BookBUS,"a guide for participants at the P4Pilot events, produced by Performance Space, Sydney.
2009
"First Love: a novella," illustrated introduction to series of 13 short stories, and essay by John C. Welchman.
2008. Also, see introduction to First Love exhibition catalogue, Grantpirrie, 2009.
"Deadman monologue", a performance script for Canberra Contemporary Art Space exhibition
"Bordertown", 100-page book with essays, performance scripts and 50 documentary photographs, 2008
“Endless summer: sunglasses and the spectacle of vision”, a monologue for an installation at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, 2007
“The Perfect Future Game”, a script for an installation at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, 2006
“Atavis: Burning Collective Memory”, screenplay to accompany exhibition, Burning Memory, 2000/1

PUBLISHED FEATURE ARTICLES and ESSAYS
"Rings of Saturn", Parallel Collisions, Adelaide Biennial catalogue essay, 2012
"Lingua Franca", Baden Pailethorpe exhibition catalogue essay, First Draft, 2012
"Let's get slaughtered", Column issue 9, Artspace, 2012
"WindWells:  a subterranean history  of water  in  Queensland" (Pat Hoffie and Stefan Purcell SLQ exhibition), SCOPE journal, 2012
"Love of confinement", in SubText, exhibition catalogue, un Projects project, West Space, 2011
"Being of the Book: the social spaces of reading aloud", International Journal of the Book, 2011
“Jonathan Jones: On the various effects of cross-pollination and the botanical logic of abstraction”, Column 5
Artspace, Sydney, 2010
“The institution does not exist”, Column 4, Artspace, Sydney, 2009
“Eight times over”, Time and again, City of Melbourne Laneways Commission, 2008
“The Limits of Representation: Darren Almond” , eyeline, no.65, Summer, 2007-08
“ The punctiform arabesque”, Natalya Hughes’ exhibition essay, Gertrude Contorary Art Spaces, 2007
“un Magazine”, Too near too far exhibition catalogue text, at C/O careof gallery, Milan, 2007
“Impossible lightness”, The Artreader, Asia Pacific Triennial (APT)5 companion, p.1, 2006
“A legitimate disguise: when fiction redresses the documentary”, The Artreader, APT5, p.13, 2006
“Matthew Griffin: Disappointment Now”, un Magazine, Autumn issue/3, pp.20-21, 2005
“Peter Burke: Serial personalities, serial interventionist”, Photofile issue 75, pp.46-49
“Where have all the people gone?” Photofile issue 73, pp. 34-39, 2005
“Assorted thoughts on the work of Laresa Kosloff”, un Magazine, Summer issue/2, pp.9-11, 2004

PUBLISHED REVIEWS
“Asia-Pacfic Triennial (APT)5”, ARTiT, issue 14, Japan, p.024, 2007
“Anne Landa Award”, ARTiT issue 14, Japan, p.010, 2007
“2005 Yokohama Triennale”, un Magazine, Summer issue/6, pp.67-69, 2005
“Justine Khamara: Legion”, un Magazine, Spring issue/5, pp.32-33, 2005
"Harriet Turnbull", review, un Magazine, issue 3, 2005
“Sharon Green: Dark Silence”, Photofile issue 74, pp. 71-73, 2005
“Exhibitions at Spacement & Containers at Federation Square”, RealTime, online No. 63, 2004
'Edward Horne", Seventh exhibition review, un Magazine issue 1, 2004
"Cassandra Tytler", West Space exhibition review, un Magazine issue 1, 2004
“Light made dark: Jo Scicuna”, RealTime, No. 59, February-March, p.32, 2004

EDITORIAL & CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
Founding and managing Editor, un Magazine issues 1–7, 2004–2006.
An independent art journal, based in Melbourne and voluntarily run by a group of artists, writers and curators. The project was initiated as an effort to develop a critical dialogue around local contemporary art practice in Melbourne, but reached a wide national and international audience. As Editor, I oversaw the management of the magazine’s content, design, distribution, promotion, financial planning, and copy editing, as well as contributing to many of the seven issues.

Co-editor (with Bullock N. curator AGNSW), “Shifting Ground”, Photofile 76, 2005/6 (on a theme of land and landscape, with a particular focus on contemporary political photograph)y.

Editor, Rapt! weblog to accompany exhibition program, Rapt!: 20 contemporary artists from Japan, 2006. An independent initiative, aimed to share experiences of the collaborative exchange program developed by the Japan Foundation for the year of Japan-Australia exchange in 2006.