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Publishing new contemporary art writing.

Commissioning distinguished writers to explore the work and narratives of artists from supported studios, and to contextualise their work within international art conversations. Also featuring reviews of exhibitions and events by artists working from supported studios.

 

 
 

June 2024—Response

David Keen visited Andrew Omoding’s solo exhibition at Camden Art Centre and responded with three poems about what he saw.

 

March 2024 — Response

The Pelican Project discuss and respond to the film Mirrored To The Core from the exhibition James Paddock: Life Could be Done So Much Better at the Exeter Phoenix.

 

April 2023—Review

Edwina Slinn, an artist with Brighton’s Rocket Artists, visited Phoenix Art Space’s Lucy, Jack, Gabby exhibition and shares her thoughts with us.

 

March 2023—Review

Coventry’s Art Riot Collective visit Trickster Figures at MK Gallery, and share their thoughts with us.

 

February 2023—Review

David Lorimer from Garvald Edinburgh visits John McNaught’s first solo exhibition at Project Ability in Glasgow, and shares his thoughts with us.

 
 
 

July 2022—Review

Artbox London artists share their thoughts after visiting Art et al.’s Season One exhibition at Cromwell Place in London. Following a tour of the show, they spent an hour taking part in a creative workshop around the theme ‘Who are you now?’

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November 2021—Review

Submit to Love artist Chris Miller reviews the William Scott retrospective at Studio Voltaire in London. The exhibition features over 80 paintings, drawings and sculptures by William, from the early 1990s to the present.

 
 
 

November 2021—Review

Louise Hewitt, who is the cultural correspondent and an artist that attends Venture Arts in Manchester, visited the Turner Prize 2021 exhibition at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry, to see what the fuss was all about.

 

October 2021—Writing

Writer and curator Katrina Schwarz explores how London studio, Submit to Love, is working against isolation and for collaboration.

 
 
 

September 2021—Writing

Writer Jennifer Higgie explores the practices of Australian artists Mathew Calandra, Matthew Clarke and Lisa Reid.

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August 2021—Research

Australian PhD student Chloe Watfern writes a research piece alongside Sydney based Studio A artist Lisa Scott, about how to write together inclusively.

 
 

August 2021—Review

London based ActionSpace artist Miriam Jane Ramsey reviews the Jean Dubuffet Brutal Beauty exhibition at the Barbican in London, in her own unique way, which includes writing, a poem and some drawings. It is an exhibition celebrating the French artist, who was one of the most singular and provocative voices in postwar modern art, and who collected Art Brut.

 

July 2021—Writing

Writer and curator, Katrina Schwarz examines Arts Project Australia artist, Anthony Romagnano’s world of colour.

 
 

July 2021—Editorial

Neurodivergent artist, writer and consultant Sonia Boué reflects on Project Art Works, a UK based supported studio, being nominated for the Turner Prize 2021. This piece follows an interview with their Artistic Director and CEO Kate Adams about this nomination.

 
 

June 2021—Editorial

Australian arts leader, advocate, curator, and writer Kelly Gellatly on the current social and cultural climate that museums and collecting institutions in Australia operate in, and what is needed to revolutionise it.

 
 

June 2021—Writing

Writer and curator, Francesca Gavin ponders autobiography and performance in the practice of UK artist Andrew Omoding of ActionSpace.

 
 

June 2021—Review

Scottish artist Simon McAuley has reviewed Project Ability’s new exhibition It’s in the Detail, which forms part of Glasgow International 2021 and focuses on three artists: Leslie Thompson, Nils McDiarmid and Robin Wise.

 
 

June 2021—Writing

Editor at Art Guide Australia Tiarney Miekus delves into the two-decades-long art practice of UK artist Eden Kötting of Project Art Works.

 
 

May 2021—Writing

Curator and Art et al. co-founder Lisa Slominski explores the multifaceted practice of Nnena Kalu, an artist with ActionSpace in London.

 

April 2021—Writing

Ella Fleck reflects on looking and processing the visual world through the practice of three Australian artists, Samraing Chea, Emily Dober, and Alan Constable.

 
 

April 2021—Writing

Editor of The Double Negative, Mike Pinnington, examines the practice of Barry Anthony Finan of Venture Arts, Manchester—memories of the past, inform hopes for the future.

 
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