Arts and cultural journalism

‘Has Tier 3 lockdown awoken the north’s political identity?’ for Now Then magazine (October 2020) –

The mayoral fury that greeted the recent imposition of tier 3 coronavirus measures across our part of the world – immortalised in Andy Burnham’s Town Hall steps moment last week – has breathed new life into the ancient political spectre of organised northern rebellion…

‘What alterous attraction and aromanticism tell us about love’ for An Injustice! on Medium.com, featured on ‘LGBTQI’ and ‘Relationships’ section (June 2020) –

We often see romantic love, most typically heterosexual romantic love, represented in popular culture as a kind of timeless and eternal vital force…

‘Melting Mettle’ interview with @corbinsshaw for Now Then magazine (March 2020) –

Are comparisons between complex emotional beings and immutable materials always helpful?…

‘Beyond ‘Hypezig’: Connecting international artists in eastern Germany’ for Medium.com, featured on ‘Art’ section (November 2019) –

WHETHER it’s ‘the new Berlin’, ‘das bessere Berlin’ (‘the better Berlin’) or even ‘Berlin twenty years ago’, annunciations of Leipzig as some kind of challenger-successor to its big brother in the north have had a quite persistent habit…

‘Remembering the surrealist techno mixes of post-wall Berlin’ for Texture magazine (September 2019) –

Coming across as the type of bloke who avoids reminiscences on yesteryear when possible, Horst Weidenmueller — head of Berlin’s eminent !K7 label — is making an exception for the topic of the X-Mixes, an obscure series of audio-visual compilations commissioned by ‪the record company‬ in the mid-1990s…

Review of ‘Immersive Cleaning with Slug milk and Sleepsang’ for the Tramlines Times (July 2018) –

Nestled between industrial buildings in the shadow of Bramall Lane stadium lies the Audacious Art Experiment, undoubtedly one of the jewels of the steel city’s cultural crown…

‘Chollywood’: is ‘Wolf Warrior 2’ a sign of Chinese film dominance to come? (December 2017) –

The box office’s biggest success stories of 2017 make, for the most part, rather easy guesswork…

Interview with teletext artist Dan Farrimond for The Indiependent (February 2016) –

It’s one of the great ironies of our time that the twenty-first century – envisaged as a space-age era of flying cars and underwater cities – loves nothing better than a bit of dewy-eyed gazing at the twentieth century…

Feature on the ‘Going Public’ art exhibition in Sheffield for Exposed magazine (November 2015) –

The art collector is an interesting breed. At their worst, hoarders, and at their very best, philanthropists…