You Silently II: Image, Object, Text curated by Dawn Ades and MW is opening at the Courtauld Library on May 12, with works by Nikos Stangos, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Graham Parker, Patricia Scanlan, Sam Winston, and more. Event: June 23 2008. Courtauld Institute Research Forum
You silently: Image-Object-Text (University Gallery, Essex, Jan. 17- February 14 2008), curated by MW and Dawn Ades. Inspired by a group of unpublished experimental concrete poems written by the inspiredpublisher and editor Nikos Stangos in l963-4, the show includes work by Augusto de Campos, Dom Sylvester Houedard, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Fiona Banner, Richard Wentworth, Graham Parker and Sam Winston. With more poetry associated with Essex on display in the Library.
The Inner Eye, exhibition for Hayward Touring Exhibitions (Manchester City Art Galleries, Brighton Museum, Swansea Museum, Dulwich Picture Gallery), 1996-1997
Metamorphing: Transformation in science, art and mythology. Co-curator: Sarah Bakewell. A Wellcome Trust Exhibition for the Science Museum London, 16 Sept 2002 - 16 Feb 2003. Conference, Metamorphing, 12 Feb. 2003 at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
See http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc%5Fwtd002865.html http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/node77105.html
Eyes, Lies and Illusions, (curatorial advisor), Hayward Gallery, London , October 6 2004 - Jan 5 2005
Memory Maps, a collaboration between the Dept. of Literature, Film, and Theatres Studies, Essex University and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, on a website of words and images to inspire students and support the teaching of creative writing. See CV Appendix A.
Only Make Believe - Ways of Playing Compton Verney Exhibitions, 2005 Only Make-Believe explores the innate relationship between play, make-believe and art, through the work of over thirty modern and contemporary artists. The link between play and creativity deepened during the twentieth-century and the exhibition focuses on the important historical, social, psychological and cultural aspects of this subject. Kiki Smith: Girl with Bird
Art Criticism
to be selected in The Symbol Gives Rise to Thought (Violette Editions, 2006)
'In the Garden of Delights: Helen Chadwick's "Of Mutability"' in Helen Chadwick (exhibition catalogue), London, l986, reprinted in Helen Chadwick, Enfleshings, London, l989.
'Eve, the Serpent and Death (Hans Baldung Grien)', FMR, 31 (March-April l988).
Introduction to Frans Masereel, The City. London, 1988.
'Personification and the Idealization of the Feminine', in Medievalism in American Culture, ed. Bernard Rosenthal and Paul E. Szarmach. Binghamton, New York, l989, 85-111.
Introduction, Paula Rego, Nursery Rhymes, l989, l994.
'Signs of the Fifth Element', Catalogue The Tree of Life, South Bank Centre Touring Exhibition, l989.
'Leonora Carrington's Spirit Bestiary; or, The Art of Playing Make-Believe' , Catalogue, Leonora Carrington London, l991.
Lucian Freud, New York Times Magazine, l992
Peter Randall Page, Catalogue Henry Moore Centre, Leeds, l992.
Richard Wentworth Catalogue, Serpentine Gallery, London, l993; version translated as ‘Le parti pris des choses’ in catalogue to Richard Wentworth exhibition,, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Calais (22 July-9 October 1994)
'Bush Natural', Parkett No 27
'Penis Plenty Phallic Lack', Parkett No 33
'In the Charnel House of Love: Marlene Dumas', Parkett No 38
'The Searcher in the Woods', in David Nash ( Omaha, l994)
'Secret Ceremonies of Innocence: Zarina Bhimji', in Zarina Bhimji ( Cambridge, l995)
'The Rebel at the Heart of the Joker: Bobby Baker', in Take a Peek (Royal Festival Hall, London, June l995), in Performance Art: Into the 90's , A & D, October l995; reprinted in ‘Bobby Baker: The rebel at the heart of the Joker’ in A split second of Paradise, eds. Nicky Childs and Jeni Walwin (London, l996)
'Waxworks and Wonderlands', in Lynne Cooke and Peter Wollen, Visual Display Culture Beyond Appearances, New York, l995; another version in Printer's Devil, Fall, l995, translated as ‘Museo delle Cere e Paese delle Meraviglie; l’arte dell’imbalsamazione come simulazione della vita e sconfitta della morte,’ Prometeo, Anno 16, No. 62.
‘Shearings’, in Ann Hamilton: Tropos (New York, 1995)
‘Le vil et le vigoureux, la toison et le poil: des cheveux et leur langage’ in masculinfeminin, le sexe de l’art, eds.Marie-Laure Bernadac et Jean-Claude Barnabé ( Paris 1995); reprinted ‘Fur and fleece and the language of hair’ in Haare - Obsession und Kunst, Museum Bellerive, Zurich (7 March -21 May 2000-)
Essay in Helen Chadwick Stilled Lives ( Edinburgh, l996)
Essay in David Nash: Forms into Time ( London, l996)
The Inner Eye: Art Beyond the Visible. Catalogue of exhibition, Manchester, -Brighton-, Swansea, Dulwich Picture Gallery London, l996-97
‘Megan Jenkinson: Making Her Way Through the Palace of Memory’, in Under the Aegis : ‘The Virtues’ by Megan Jenkinson. Auckland, l997
‘Making Secret Visions Visible’, PN Review 1997
‘At the bottom of the garden’ Victorian Fairy Painting (Royal Academy of Arts), Victorian Fairy painting , Jane Martineau, ed. Merrell Hollberton/Royal Academy of Arts, in TLS, -December 5, 1997-
‘Angelic Visions’, RA Quarterly, Winter 1998.
‘A renaissance of repugnance,’ review of Master of death: the lifeless art of Pierre Remiet, Michael Camille; Medieval death: Ritual and representation, Paul Binski; King Death: the Black death and its aftermath in late-medieval England, Colin Platt, THES, -July 5, 1998-
‘Playacting, Chimaera and the late grotesque’ in Veronica’s revenge, ed.Elizabeth Janus ( Zurich, 1998)
Preface to 20 Maresfield- -Gardens: A Guide to The Freud- -Museum ( London, l998)
‘The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower’, introduction to Virginia Rodier, Clementina Lady Hawarden ( New York, l999)
‘Desire Paths’, in Granite Song : Sculpture Peter Randall-Page (Devon Books, l999)
‘Family enfer’: review of Louise Bourgeois, recent works, Serpentine Gallery, and Louise Bourgeois ‘Deconstruction of the Father, reconstruction of the father,’ Writings and Interviews, eds. Marie-Laure Bernadac, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, TLS, l999
‘I will give you a monument’ (debate on Trafalgar Square’s empty plinth, from talk given to Royal Society of Arts) New Statesman, -21 February, 2000-, p. 43-44
‘Adventures in the way we see,’ review of Colour and Meaning: Art, Science and Symbolism, John Gage, in THES, -December 17, 1999-
‘Nine Turns around the Spindle: The Turbine Towers of Louise Bourgeois’, in Louise Bourgeois ( London: Tate, 2000)
‘Ready or Not Here I Come!’, in Janine Antoni ( Zurich, 2000)
‘Gateways of the Primordial’, introduction to Sculpture at Goodwood 2001-2.
‘”Ourself behind Ourself, Concealed”: Ethereal Whispers from the Dark Side’, in Tony Oursler: The Influence Machine, London: Artangel, New York: Public Art Fund, 2002.
‘Pavane for Her Wildwoman Symmetries: Francesco Clemente’s The Book of the Sea, catalogue essay, London and New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2002
Catalogue note to The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002, for which MW was ones of the judges.
‘Ethereal Body: The Quest for Ectoplasm’, in Spiritus, catalogue of exhibition at Magasin3, Stockholm, 2003; reprinted Cabinet ( New York), Fall/Winter 2003-4.
“An artist’s dreamland”: Jane Eyre through Paula Rego’s eyes’, in Paula Rego: Jane Eyre (Enitharmon Press, London, 2003)
‘Anish Kapoor: The Perforate Self, or Nought Is Not Nought’, Parkett, Spring, 2004.
‘ Oracles & Treacle’, in catalogue of Joan Jonas: Works, Queens Museum of Art, Queens New York, December 2003.
‘Medusae: Dorothy Cross/Tom Cross’, in Experiment: conversations in art and science. Eds. Bergit Arends and Davina Thackara ( London:The Wellcome Trust, 2004).
‘Here comes the Bogeyman’: Juan Munoz and the Late Grotesque’, in Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art , No. 2: Dia Art Foundation, New York, eds. Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly, with Bettina Funcke ( New York, 2004).
‘Metamorfosis fantasticas: frutos prohibidos y otros mundos en “El Jardin de las delicias” de Hieronymus Bosch’, in Historias Inmortales ( Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2002
‘Psychic Time, or, The Metamorphoses of Narcissus’, in Chris Bucklow: This I that is Not I (catalogue, London: British Museum and Wordsworth Trust, 2004)
'Natura Pictrix: A Conversation with Brian Conley, in /Decipherment of Linear X / (New York: Pierogi, 2004)
Interview with Tacita Dean, in /Tacita Dean/, forthcoming London:
Phaidon Press, 2005.
'Passionate Cruces: The Art of Dorothy Cross', in catalogue of exhibition Dorothy Cross (Charta, Milan, 2005), Irish Museum of MOdern Art, Dublin 2005.
'Wolf-Girl, Soul-Bird: The Mortal Art of Kiki Smith', essay in catalogue for exhibition Kiki Smith, Minneapolis et al., 2005- 6.
Essay in catalogue for The Blur of the OtherWorldly, University of Maryland, 2005.
'Invented Plots: The Enchanted Puppets and Fairy Doubles of Henry Fuseli', essay for catalogue of exhibition, Henry Fuseli and His Contemporaries, Tate Britain 2006.
Essays on Art include...
'In the Garden of Delights: Helen Chadwick's "Of Mutability"' in Helen Chadwick (exhibition catalogue), London, l986, reprinted in Helen Chadwick, Enfleshings, London, l989.
'Eve, the Serpent and Death (Hans Baldung Grien)', FMR, 31 (March-April l988).
Introduction to Frans Masereel, The City. London, 1988.
'Personification and the Idealization of the Feminine', in Medievalism in American Culture, ed. Bernard Rosenthal and Paul E. Szarmach. Binghamton, New York, l989, 85-111.
Maggi Hambling Catalogue , Serpentine Gallery, London, l989
Introduction, Paula Rego, Nursery Rhymes, l989, l994.
'Signs of the Fifth Element', Catalogue The Tree of Life, South Bank Centre Touring Exhibition, l989.
'Leonora Carrington's Spirit Bestiary; or, The Art of Playing Make-Believe' , Catalogue, Leonora Carrington London, l991.
Lucian Freud, New York Times Magazine, l992
Peter Randall Page, Catalogue Henry Moore Centre, Leeds, l992.
Richard Wentworth Catalogue, Serpentine Gallery, London, l993; version translated as ‘Le parti pris des choses’ in catalogue to Richard Wentworth exhibition,, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Calais (22 July-9 October 1994)
'Bush Natural', Parkett No 27
'Penis Plenty Phallic Lack', Parkett No 33
'In the Charnel House of Love: Marlene Dumas', Parkett No 38
'The Searcher in the Woods', in David Nash (Omaha, l994)
'Secret Ceremonies of Innocence: Zarina Bhimji', in Zarina Bhimji (Cambridge, l995)
'The Rebel at the Heart of the Joker: Bobby Baker', in Take a Peek (Royal Festival Hall, London, June l995), in Performance Art: Into the 90's , A & D, October l995; reprinted in ‘Bobby Baker: The rebel at the heart of the Joker’ in A split second of Paradise, eds. Nicky Childs and Jeni Walwin (London, l996)
'Waxworks and Wonderlands', in Lynne Cooke and Peter Wollen, Visual Display Culture Beyond Appearances, New York, l995; another version in Printer's Devil, Fall, l995, translated as ‘Museo delle Cere e Paese delle Meraviglie; l’arte dell’imbalsamazione come simulazione della vita e sconfitta della morte,’ Prometeo, Anno 16, No. 62.
'Soul Stealing, Shadow-Catching ' 2 parts, Tate , Summer-Autumn, l995; another version:'Lost Souls, Stolen Shadows', Raritan, Fall, l995..
‘Shearings’, in Ann Hamilton: Tropos (New York, 1995)
‘Le vil et le vigoureux, la toison et le poil: des cheveux et leur langage’ in masculinfeminin, le sexe de l’art, eds.Marie-Laure Bernadac et Jean-Claude Barnabé (Paris 1995); reprinted ‘Fur and fleece and the language of hair’ in Haare - Obsession und Kunst, Museum Bellerive, Zurich (7 March-21 May 2000)
Essay in Helen Chadwick Stilled Lives (Edinburgh, l996)
Essay in David Nash: Forms into Time (London, l996)
The Inner Eye: Art Beyond the Visible. Catalogue of exhibition, Manchester, Brighton, Swansea, Dulwich Picture Gallery London, l996-97
‘Megan Jenkinson: Making Her Way Through the Palace of Memory’, in Under the Aegis : ‘The Virtues’ by Megan Jenkinson. Auckland, l997
‘Making Secret Visions Visible’, PN Review 1997
‘At the bottom of the garden’ Victorian Fairy Painting (Royal Academy of Arts), Victorian Fairy painting , Jane Martineau, ed. Merrell Hollberton/Royal Academy of Arts, in TLS, December 5, 1997
‘Angelic Visions’, RA Quarterly, Winter 1998.
‘A renaissance of repugnance,’ review of Master of death: the lifeless art of Pierre Remiet, Michael Camille; Medieval death: Ritual and representation, Paul Binski; King Death: the Black death and its aftermath in late-medieval England, Colin Platt, THES, July 5, 1998
‘Playacting, Chimaera and the late grotesque’ in Veronica’s revenge, ed.Elizabeth Janus (Zurich, 1998)
Preface to 20 Maresfield Gardens: A Guide to The Freud Museum (London, l998)
‘The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower’, introduction to Virginia Rodier, Clementina Lady Hawarden (New York, l999)
‘Desire Paths’, in Granite Song : Sculpture Peter Randall-Page (Devon Books, l999)
‘Family enfer’: review of Louise Bourgeois, recent works, Serpentine Gallery, and Louise Bourgeois ‘Deconstruction of tthe Father, reconstruction of the father,’ Writings and Interviews, eds. Marie-Laure Bernadac, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, TLS, l999
‘I will give you a monument’ (debate on Trafalgar Square’s empty plinth, from talk given to Royal Society of Arts) New Statesman, 21 February, 2000, p. 43-44
‘Adventures in the way we see,’ review of Colour and Meaning: Art, Science and Symbolism, John Gage, in THES, December 17, 1999
‘Nine Turns around the Spindle: The Turbine Towers of Louise Bourgeois’, Louise Bourgeois (London, 2000)
‘Ready or Not Here I Come!’, in Janine Antoni (Zurich, 2000)
‘Gateways of the Primordial’, introduction to Sculpture at Goodwood 2001-2.
‘”Ourself behind Ourself, Concealed”: Ethereal Whispers from the Dark Side’, in Tony Oursler: The Influence Machine, London: Artangel, New York: Public Art Fund, 2002.
‘Pavane for Her Wildwoman Symmetries: Francesco Clemente’s The Book of the Sea, catalogue essay, London and New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2002
Catalogue note to The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002.
Metamorphing, written with Sarah Bakewell, published by New Scientist, 2003.
‘Ethereal Body: The Quest for Ectoplasm’, in Spiritus, catalogue of exhibition at Magasin3, Stockholm, 2003; reprinted Cabinet (New York), Fall/Winter 2003-4.
‘“An artist’s dreamland”: Jane Eyre through Paula Rego’s eyes’, in
Paula Rego: Jane Eyre (Enitharmon Press, London, 2003)
‘Anish Kapoor: The Perforate Self, or Nought Is Not Nought’, Parkett, Spring, 2004.
‘Oracles & Treacle’, in catalogue of Joan Jonas: Works, Queens Museum of Art, Queens New York, December 2003.
‘Medusae: Dorothy Cross/Tom Cross’, in Experiment: conversations in art and science. Eds. Bergit Arends and Davina Thackara (London:The Wellcome Trust, 2004).
‘Here comes the Bogeyman’: Juan Munoz and the Late Grotesque’, in Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art , No. 2: Dia Art Foundation, New York, eds. Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly, with Bettina Funcke (New York, 2004).
‘Metamorfosis fantasticas: frutos prohibidos y otros mundos en “El Jardin de las delicias” de Hieronymus Bosch’, in Historias Inmortales (Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2002
‘Psychic Time, or, The Metamorphoses of Narcissus’, in Chris Bucklow: This I that is Not I (catalogue, London: British Museum and Wordsworth Trust, 2004)
Introduction to and A Short Dictionary of the Invisible, in catalogue of The Inner Eye: Art Beyond the Visible. Catalogue of exhibition, Manchester, Brighton, Swansea, Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, l996-97)
‘In the Mind’s Eye: Thought-Pictures and Ethereal Presences in the Photograph of Julia Margaret Cameron 1815-79), Archive (Bradford Museum of Photography, Film & Television), February 2004: 30-34.
‘Self-Portrait in a Rear-View Mirror’ in Only Make Believe: Ways of Playing, catalogue of exhibition at Compton Verney, 2004-5.
‘Out of the Hell-Broth on to the Pillow: The Metamorphosis of a Frog’, in Kiss the Frog: The Art of Transformation exh cat. Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, arkitektur og design, Oslo 28 May- 18 Sept 2005.
‘Passionate Cruces: The Art of Dorothy Cross’ in Dorothy Cross, exhibition catalogue, Irish Museum of Modern Art. Dublin, 2005 (Milan; Charta, 2005)
‘Insubstantial Pageants: spirit visions, soul traces’, in The Blur of the Otherworldly, ed. Mark Alice Durrant, exhibition catalogue, Baltimore, 2005.
‘Wolf-Girl, Soul-Bird: The Mortal Art of Kiki Smith’, in Kiki Smith, exhibition catalogue for retrospective, Minneapolis – San Francisco, 2005- .
‘Hieronymus Bosch: The Hay Wain’, El Bosco y la tradicion pictorica de lo fantastico en el Museo del Prado, Madrid, forthcoming, 2006.
‘Invented Plots: The Enchanted Puppets and Fairy Doubles of Henry Fuseli’, in exhibition catalogue for Gothic Nightmares, Tate Britain, 2006.
‘Airy Spirits and Spitting Images: Adventures with Ectoplasm’, Vorträge aus dem Warburg-Haus, Vol. 9, Hamburg, 2006
Art essays to be selected for The Symbol Gives Rise to Thought, ed. Robert Violette, Violette Editions, forthcoming, 2007.
Opera Libretti
The Queen of Sheba's Legs Children's Opera libretto. Music by Julian Grant. English National Opera Baylis Programme, London, l992.
In the House of Crossed DesiresMusic by John Woolrich. Cheltenham Music Festival/Music Theatre Wales, l996. Published Faber, London, l996.
Film Scripts
Joan of Arc (Directed by Gina Newson), Channel 4, London, l984.
Cinderella (Directed by Melissa Llewelyn-Davies), BBC 2, London, l986.
Imaginary Women (Directed by Gina Newson), Channel 4, London, l986.
