Essays on Art Include…
2010
‘The Language of Stones’ , in catalogue of The Dark Monarch:Magic and Modernity’, Tate St Ives. 2010
‘Fruit Bomb’, about a talisman in the Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford appears in the catalogue of Magic Show, a South Bank touring exhibition curated by Sally O’Reilly and Jonathan Allen. Published 2010.
‘Adynaia - Time’s Colour; Impossible Beauty’ an essay for The Colour of Time: Garry Fabian Miller by Adam Nicolson, Marina Warner, Nigel Warburton, published by Black Dog Publishing, London September 2010. The publishing coincides with two exhibitions of Garry Fabian Miller’s work at the V&A and Hacklebury Fine Art, London 2010.
‘A Howling Yearning’ an essay on recent RCA Animation work for ARC: The Journal of The Royal College of Art, London, ARC 14, Summer 2010, Pp 58-61.
2009
Introduction to Peter Randall-Page, exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, adapted in ‘Heart of Stone’, Guardian Review 4 July 2009, p. 18.
‘Rat and Bear: The Animal Fables of Fischli/Weiss’ in Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Are Animals People? Exhibition catalogue, Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2009
‘The Metamorphoses of Narcissus’, in The Body and the Arts, ed. Corinne Saunders, Palgrave, 2009.
Extracts from Phantasmagoria’ in Susan MacWilliam: Remote Viewing, Black Dog Publishing, pp. 56-57. 2009
2008
‘Light Drawing In: The Art of Tacita Dean’, in Gehen/Walking, edited by Theodora Vischer and Katrin Grogel, Schaulager Basel, 2008.
‘The Writing of Stones: Roger Caillois’s Imaginary Logic’, Cabinet magazine, Spring 2008.
‘The Word Unfleshed: Memory in Cyberspace’, trans. German in Sinn und Form, May-June 2008.
‘Phew! Whaam! Aaargh! Boo!: Sense, Sensation, and Picturing Sound’ in The Soundtrack, Vol 1, 2008.
‘Al and Al’, in Al and Al: Eternal Youth, exh. catalogue, FACT, Liverpool, April, 2008.
2007
Art essays to be selected for The Symbol Gives Rise to Thought, ed. Robert Violette, Violette Editions, forthcoming, 2007.
2006
‘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
2005
‘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- .
2004
‘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.
‘Psychic Time, or, The Metamorphoses of Narcissus’, in Chris Bucklow: This I that is Not I (catalogue, London: British Museum and Wordsworth Trust, 2004)
‘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).
2003
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.
2002
‘Metamorfosis fantasticas: frutos prohibidos y otros mundos en “El Jardin de las delicias” de Hieronymus Bosch’, in Historias Inmortales (Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2002
‘”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.
2001
‘Gateways of the Primordial’, introduction to Sculpture at Goodwood 2001-2.
2000
‘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)
‘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
1999
‘Adventures in the way we see,’ review of Colour and Meaning: Art, Science and Symbolism, John Gage, in THES, December 17, 1999
‘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
1998
‘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)
1997
‘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
1996
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)
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
1995
‘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)
1994
‘The Searcher in the Woods’, in David Nash (Omaha, l994)
1993
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)
‘Penis Plenty Phallic Lack’, Parkett No 33 – 1993
‘In the Charnel House of Love: Marlene Dumas’, Parkett No 38 - 1993
1992
Lucian Freud, New York Times Magazine, l992
Peter Randall Page, Catalogue Henry Moore Centre, Leeds, l992.
1991
‘Leonora Carrington’s Spirit Bestiary; or, The Art of Playing Make-Believe’ , Catalogue, Leonora Carrington London, l991.
‘Bush Natural’, Parkett No 27 - 1991
1990
1989
‘In the Garden of Delights: Helen Chadwick’s “Of Mutability”’ in Helen Chadwick (exhibition catalogue), London, l986, reprinted in Helen Chadwick, Enfleshings, London, l989.
‘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.
1988
‘Eve, the Serpent and Death (Hans Baldung Grien)’, FMR, 31 (March-April l988).
Introduction to Frans Masereel, The City. London, 1988.
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