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Climate Apocalypse, Atom Bomb and Simulation
My recent work is increasingly more focused on the feeling of impending disaster which stretches into infinity, the feeling of...
Jun 4, 20212 min read


Boys on Film: Conversation with Emily Perry
After seeing Emily Perry's latest exhibition, 'Boys on Film' at Seventeen Gallery, I met up with her to talk about her work. We spoke...
Jul 26, 202013 min read


Originality, Reproduction, and Separation of Opposites
In Originality of the Avant-Garde Rosalind Krauss dispels the myth of the modernist ‘originality’ associated with the figure of the grid....
Apr 18, 20203 min read


Sirens and Vaporwave or the Pleasure Principle of Climate Crisis
It seems to me that when it comes to dealing with the climate crisis there are generally two approaches. The first one is panic and...
Apr 4, 20202 min read


Fires on TV: Images of Catastrophe
Fire is a textbook example of symbolism. One of the five elements, a crucial metaphysical substance for mythologies, pre-Socratics,...
Mar 1, 20209 min read


Freeze Frames: Doug Aitken's 'Return to the Real'
In his new installation in Victoria Miro’s Wharf Road space, Doug Aitken cerates freeze frames of the digital, accelerated world in...
Dec 27, 20192 min read


Dancing in the Styx: Mark Bradford's 'Cerberus'
Mark Bradford’s exhibition at Hauser and Wirth is a collection of the artist’s new work, consisting of a series of paintings and a film...
Nov 25, 20193 min read


Oil, Vinegar and Lacan: On the Validity of Rupture
The rupture is arguably one of the key concepts in contemporary art. It could be said without much controversy that it descends from...
Nov 1, 201911 min read


A Room Without a Man
“Man with a Newspaper” is a 1928 painting by René Magritte. It’s divided into 4 panels, all of which depict the same room. The only thing...
Oct 1, 20193 min read


Is There No One in the House? Surrealist Deserts, Empty Houses and Quantum Incompleteness
One of the staples of surrealist painting, especially that with oniristic influences, is the presence of vast empty planes. Whether it's...
Apr 16, 20193 min read


Plague of Text: Jenny Holzer at Tate Modern
Over the entrance to one of Tate Modern’s huge white spaces hangs an information sign - a long strip made out of orange LED lights,...
Mar 24, 20196 min read


Domestic Disharmony
Recently I had the brilliant opportunity to display my work in an exhibition in the Unify Gallery in Farnham, alongside some amazing work...
Mar 20, 20192 min read


What Burning Furniture in Surrey Has To Do With Surrealism
In my recent work, I’ve been looking at subjects such as the unconscious, the uncanny, fear, shock and all that edgy dark stuff anyone...
Dec 1, 20182 min read


Conrad Shawcross: After the Explosion, Before the Collapse
The space of London’s Victoria Miro has recently been taken over by sci-fi, industrial-looking sculptures resembling large-scale...
Oct 10, 20183 min read
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