Art Criticism
For art criticism please go to Publications, essays on art.
curating & judging
'No Woman, No Cry' by Chris Ofili, 1998 Tate Britain
Judge and Selector
Judge for The Jerwood Drawing Prize, 2002
Judge for The Turner Prize at Tate Britain, 1998
Exhibition Selector for BT New Contemporaries, 1992
Only Make Believe - Ways of Playing
Compton Verney Exhibitions, 25 March - 5 June 2005
Curated by Marina Warner, ‘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. This exhibition includes the work of Francis Alÿs, Ida Applebroog, Clive Barker, Hans Bellmer, Christian Boltanski, Mat Collishaw, Dorothy Cross, Adam Dant, Henry Darger, Erno Goldfinger, Roger Hilton, Joan Jonas, Glenn Kaino, Wassily Kandinsky, Zbigniew Libera, Melissa McGill, Wendy McMurdo, Annette Messager, Piet Mondrian, The Brothers Quay, Paula Rego, Gerrit Rietveld, Laurie Simmons, Kiki Smith, Monika Sosnowska, Jo Stockham, Richard Wentworth, Sarah Woodfine and Kumi Yamashita.
Thomas Gainsborough (RA) 'Wooded Moonlight Landscape with Pool and Figure at the Door of a Cottage' Great Britain About 1781
Memory Maps
Memory Maps is a new website, designed to inspire and foster work which will continue this approach. It begins as a joint venture between the Dept of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex and the website team of the Victoria and Albert Museum. It includes works in many different media, posted here to stimulate ways of thinking, writing, recording and inventing: for example, a Tattooist parlour, Southend; Old Grand Theatre, Colchester; abandoned Merry Go Round ; portrait of Francis Bacon, East India Company coffee pot; child’s sampler, etc. )
Many of the images come from the archive of Recording Britain, which Kenneth Clark commissioned during World War Two, and is kept at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
‘You Silently: Image-Object-Text’
‘You Silently: Image-Object-Text’ at University of Essex, 14 January - 16 February 2008
‘You Silently (Two) : Image-Object-Text’ at The Courtauld Library, June 2008
Exhibition curated by Marina Warner and Dawn Ades for University of Essex and The Courtauld Library with a focus on visual poetry in the age of the internet.
Eyes, Lies and Illusions
Eyes, Lies and Illusions (curatorial advisor), Hayward Gallery, London, October 7 2004 - Jan 3 2005
This exhibition combined more than a thousand instruments, images and devices drawn from the remarkable collection of the German experimental film-maker Werner Nekes with major works by internationally renowned contemporary artists (including Christian Boltanski, Tony Oursler, Marcel Duchamp, Carsten Höller, Markus Raetz, Alfons Schilling, Anthony McCall and Ludwig Wilding) showing how optical phenomena continue to fascinate to this day. Please see here.
Metamorphing: Transformation in science, art and mythology
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.
AICA (Association Internationale de Critiques d’Art)
Elected member of the AICA (Association Internationale de Critiques d’Art), 2009.
The Inner Eye
exhibition for Hayward Touring Exhibitions (Manchester City Art Galleries, Brighton Museum, Swansea Museum, Dulwich Picture Gallery), 1996-1997
