RECENT writing (2017 — )

Street Art Meets Aboriginal Culture in the Work of Reko Rennie

Exhibition review for Hyperallergic, December 2024

The essence

Essay for exhibition by Renee So as part of Local / National / International at The Lowry, November 2024

healing at a distance

Essay for 99 glasses, solo exhibition by Shirley Jianzhen Wu at Post Office Projects, November 2024

The finest art galleries in Melbourne as picked by a local curator

Melbourne City Guide, Roadbook, October 2024

bulletin #74

Editorial, Women’s Art Register, July 2024

a break-up letter to silence

Criticism, Suite 7a, July 2024

Sincerely Yours, ARMY: Exploring Fandom as Curatorial Methodology

Book Chapter, Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader, Duke University Press, July 2024

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Watching the night watch

Reading, Dinner Party Press, May 2024

Why art can’t be apolitical

Overland, April 2024

The show inviting Australians into Palestinian life: ‘Artists can move nations if they want to’

The Guardian, January 2024

Artists as influencers: advertising or advocacy?

Opinion piece for Art Guide, January 2024

 

no coincidence

Studio visit and interview with Desmond Lazaro for Look, Art Gallery of New South Wales, December 2023/January 2024

hossei

Critic’s Choice for Artforum, September 2023

Why I love being a BTS fangirl in my 30s

The Guardian, June 2023

Never Mind the Nepo Babies—Here Come the Crony Pals

Opinion piece for Art Guide, March 2023

 

The Political Purpose of Self Care

Essay for Self Care Action Series, solo exhibition by Kate Just at Linden New Art, March 2023

Beyond the Canvas

Profile on Emma Coulter for Artist Profile, March 2023

how i see it: blak art and film

Exhibition review for Artforum, March 2023

i will wait for you until 2025

Extended exhibition text for Recreation, project8, February 2023

 

Can a cultural critic actually be ‘neutral’? And should they be?

Opinion piece for Art Guide, February 2023

knit your own: the great australian dream

Essay as knitting pattern for Suburban Turrets, solo exhibition by Emma Buswell at Goolugatup Heathcote, November 2022

soda jerk

Critic’s Choice for Artforum, November 2022

20/20 vision

Essay for The Middle Distance, solo exhibition by Britt Salt at St Heliers Street Gallery, November 2022

Picass-no

Opinion piece for Art Guide, October 2022

contested air

Essay for Conflated, NETS Victoria, September 2022

Racial equity and representation

Writer for NAVA Code of Practice for Visual Arts, Craft and Design, September 2022

Conversations with my father

Essay for Evanesce, Centre for Projection Art x Climarte, June 2022

IF you know, you know

Essay for My parents didn’t cross the Mekong River so I could shit in a hole, solo exhibition by Michelle Bounpraseuth at Chalk Horse Gallery, April 2022

you can’t be what you can’t see

Profile on Amrit Gill for Art Collector Magazine, Issue 100, April — June 2022

If you’re no longer making art, are you still an artist? Who decides?

Opinion piece for Art Guide, March 2022

WHEN SHOULD YOU WORK FOR FREE?

Opinion piece for Art Guide, February 2022

 

Filling the hearts of absent women

Essay for Hearts of Absent Women, solo exhibition by Ema Shin at Counihan Gallery, February 2022

#CASUALFAN

Fan letter as curatorial essay for Sincerely Yours, January 2022

goodbye 2021: a year of loss and optimism

Opinion piece for Art Guide, December 2021

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Days like these:

Anecdotes on the dogs in my life

Commissioned for the Companion Companion Reader, 2021

 
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a conversation between friends

For Writing in the Expanded Field Vol 3, ACCA

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on the ordinariness and extraordinariness of this thing we call art

Opinion piece for Art Guide, January 2021

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in between spaces

Essay for Corporeal/Spiritual, solo exhibition by Linda Sok at Firstdraft, November 2020

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reading between the lines

Essay for Are You Having a Good Night? at Fremantle Arts Centre, September 2020. Catalogue designed by Susie Blatchford

 
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We are the dew drops

Profile on Lindy Lee for Art Guide, September 2020

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FACING THE TIMES

Catalogue essay for About Face at Artisan, July 2020

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burnt out culture

Opinion piece for Art Guide, June 2020

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on loving bad artists

Opinion piece for Art Guide, February 2020

 
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To those i’ve loved and those i’m yet to love

Hand-written love letter as curatorial essay for The Four Letter Word at Artbank, November 2019

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about a pink sweater

Personal essay for Pom Pom Quarterly, November 2019

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A SPACE OF YOUR OWN

Curatorial essay for Open Close Gallery, November 2019

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Arts Writing in the Meme Age


(and Other Complications)

Opinion piece for Art Guide, August 2019

 
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ARt/WORK

Curatorial essay for For Love or Money at Town Hall Gallery, July 2019

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STATUS QUO

Art criticism for INSITE Magazine, May 2019

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barriers to entry

Catalogue essay for Barriers to Entry at KINGS, April 2019

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what does love have to do with it?

Catalogue essay for From China with Love at Hugo Michell Gallery, February 2019

 
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the quilts of jess and cynthia johnson

Garland Magazine, Issue 12, September 2018

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Anonymous was a Woman

Catalogue essay for This Wild Song at Town Hall Gallery, September 2018

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the burrangong affray

Exhibition review for Un Extended, July 2018

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interview with nikki lam

Liminal Magazine, May 2018

 
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glossary

Experimental essay for Infrastructuralism at La Trobe Institute of Art, February 2018

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WIP: The unfinished business of feminism

Exhibition review for Runway Conversations, January 2018

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heroine knits

Portrait Magazine, Issue 58

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poetry of the everyday

Article published in Journal of Australian Ceramics, Issue 57, November 2017.

Permission has been given to make it available on this website.
© The Australian Ceramics Association 2017/2018

 
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interview with jason phu

Liminal Magazine, November 2017

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five ways with clay

Exhibition review published in Journal of Australian Ceramics, Issue 56, July 2017

Permission has been given to make it available on this website.
© The Australian Ceramics Association 2017/2018

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a white utopia

Art criticism, June 2017

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performing geographies

Review of AsiaTOPA for 4A Papers, Issue 2, May 2017