9 August

The mini festival Yes Way is on in Auto Italia this weekend, organised in partnership with Upset the Rhythm. I'm organising a small stand in the front shop area, with books, records and other fun stuff from Matthieu Copeland, Mark Garry, Russell Harte, Dennis McNulty, Damien Roach, David Sherry, as well as from Junior Aspirin and Clean Teeth Records. Also as a reminder, next thursday I'll be in conversation with Mark Hutchinson at the Temple Bar Gallery talking about the work of Sonia Shiel, on the occasion of the launch of the book 'More Rules Than Road' published by the RHA.

12 July

'Oneiriography' has closed, but a short review of it can be found here at the online journal Paper Visual Art. A short write-up of the 'Look Here! Look Here!' sound/radio exhibition at FormContent is also up, here at A-N Magazine online. I'll be in Dublin August 19th having a conversation with Mark Hutchinson in Temple Bar Gallery, on the occasion of launching a book about Irish artist Sonia Shiel to which we both contributed; the event also launches Shiel's solo show 'Bran New Brains' which begins as an ongoing installation from this coming friday the 16th July.

6 July

'Oneiriography' has been extended to run through saturday 10th July, so this week is another final chance to get to see the show. The new July issue of ArtPapers is out with my review of April's Glasgow International, and the new issue of Flash Art has my review of the Baghramian/Barlow double show at the Serpentine Gallery. The latest issue of the VAN is just out in Ireland as well, with my column, entitled 'Possibly Maybe' on some forms of discursive art.

7 June

The group show 'Oneiriography' I curated at Green on Red Gallery is now open, up until the 3rd July. The show has works by Simon and Tom Bloor, Michelle Deignan, Ruth Ewan and Ragnar Kjartansson.

12 May

My short review of Jennet Thomas's 'All Suffering SOON TO END!' currently on at Matt's Gallery is just up on the Frieze website. The show runs until the 6th June.

9 May

The first weekend of FormContent's 10-week radio exhibition 'HaVE a LoOk! HAve a LooK!' is now available to listen to on their website, with the programme Kate McLarnon and myself put together alongside works by Rossella Biscotti and Franziska Lantz. June 3rd the group show 'Oneiriography' I am curating will open at the Green on Red Gallery in Dublin, with works by Simon and Tom Bloor, Michelle Deignan, Ruth Ewan and Ragnar Kjartansson, visit the exhibition's page on this site for more info.

3 May

From this Friday 7th may, FormContent gallery in Dalston launch their latest exhibition, 'Have a Look! Have a Look!', which will be a series of radio broadcasts on until 11 July. Myself and Kate McLarnon have curated a half-hour long show that will be included in the exhibition, including contributions from Mary McLarnon, Oliver McLarnon, Dennis McNulty, David Sherry, and Jon Thrupp. They will be launching a website specifically for the webcast later this week.

The May-June issue of the Visual Artists Newsletter Ireland is out this week, which includes a column I wrote, 'Beneath the cuts, the beach'

Also just up is a new part of the site, in the 'Wood Green Comics, Comix and Zine Library,' in making my large but still limited collection of comics-related material available for reading.

March 29

The April issue of Frieze, number 130, is just out, with my review of the 'Associations' show with Jeremiah Day, Charlotte Moth and John Smith at Arcade Gallery in London. John Smith's short film 'Associations' (1975) can also be seen as part of his great retrospective at the Royal College of Art until the 13th April.

March 8

The 2010 Auckland Triennial, 'Last Ride in A Hot Air Balloon,' opens this thursday. The catalogue includes a text I wrote on New Zealand artist Alicia Frankovich, alongside an essay by the curator Natasha Conland, and text contributions from Brian Dillon, Rosalind Nashashibi and Lars Bang Larsen among others.

February 4

The invite/poster for the AION EXPERIMENTS exhibition at Project Arts Centre, Dublin is just out, with a fictional text I wrote for the show. Organised by Padraic E. Moore, the exhibition features The Morris/Trasov Archive, Sam Keogh, Takeshi Murata, Ulf Rolloff, and Ciaran Walsh. The show opens 6pm Thursday 11th February, and runs until the 10th April. The text can also be found in the 'Curator's Notes' of the website's section of the exhibition, here.

January 3 2010

Frieze's jan-Feb issue 128 is out now with my review of 'For the blind man...' in the back section. My review is of the show's St. Louis incarnation, but it can currently be seen in the ICA in London. The Visual Artist Newsletter's January-February issue is out now as well, with a short column I wrote titled, 'Real Art Top Ten 2009.' Quiet Revolution is on for another week at the Djanogly in Nottingham. All the best for 2010.

November 24

The most recent (and final) incarnation of the Hayward Touring show Quiet Revolution is now open at the Djanogly Art Gallery at Lakeside Arts in Nottingham University, open until 10 January 2010. Last chance to see these artists together in a space well-suited to the work! Automatic just wrapped up in Dublin as well to a good response. More soon- with articles published in January and several artists' texts on the way.

October 19

A show I curated in association with NADA opened on Saturday at the 7 For All Mankind store in Atlanta's Lenox Square Mall. Featuring the work of Ben Roosevelt and Stan Woodard, images of the show can be seen here. The work will be there for the next two weeks, integrated into the shop's normal display. In conjunction with the Frieze art fair, their 2009-2010 Yearbook is just out as well, with several texts on artists I've written. The Michela Eichwald review is now up as well, and can be seen here.

October 12

'Automatic' finished up at Auto Italia and transforms for the Pallas Contemporary Projects space, opening next friday the 23rd. My belated review of Michaela Eichwald's 'The Classical' just closed at Vilma Gold should be on Frieze.com shortly. 'Quiet Revolution' has been reviewed in the September issues of Art Monthly, and the Brooklyn Rail, and also features as a 'pick' in the current issue 3 of Kaleidoscope. The show is up in the Harris Museum in Preston until the 15th November, then opens in the Djanogly Art Gallery in Nottingham the 19th November.

September 20th

Back online- lots going on. 'Automatic', a group show co-curated with Gavin Murphy opened Friday the 4th at AutoItalia Southeast in Peckham and is on through this coming Saturday the 26th. The second leg of the Hayward touring show 'Quiet Revolution' opened this past Friday at the Harris Museum in Preston. The work takes on a different feel in the space- large room with amazing natural light; the show's up there until the 15th November, at which point we'll be taking it to the Djanogly Museum in Nottingham. My review of Norwich's East International can be seen on the Frieze website here, also my review of Mira Schendel at Stephen Friedman Gallery is in the current September issue of Frieze. I took part in S. Mark Gubb's 'Pura Vida' project taking place in Nottingham, as part of Hinterland Projects. My own contribution, a monlogue roughly about 'a bar/pub in a utopia' will be up on a billboard on Thoresby St in Nottingham for 2 weeks, starting next week. In the meantime, the latest issue of Ireland's Visual Artist Newsletter is out, with a short column I wrote as well touching on art and environmental issues.

June 16

The Milton Keynes Gallery hosts the first part of the group show Quiet Revolution, opening on Friday July 3rd 6-8pm, all welcome. More info on the Milton Keynes website and here.

April 30

Frieze's May issue (nummer 123) is just out, with my review of the Declan Clarke show in Dublin's Goethe Institute and a short Focus piece on Scottish artist Ruth Ewan. The May issue of Flash Art should also have my review of Tonico Lemos Auad's recent show at Stephen Friedman Gallery, and the May-June Visual Artists Newsletter in Ireland will have my first column for them, where I discuss some film encounters, cinema verite, and not much else. The artists taking part in the Hayward Touring show I'm curating, 'Quiet Revolution,' have now all been confirmed, opening July 4th at Milton Keynes Gallery. More details here, and more to follow on their website soon.

March 27

Frieze's April issue, number 112, is just out with both a Focus piece I've written on British artist Anna Barriball, as well as a review of Lindsay Seers exhibition at Matt's Gallery earlier in the year, 'It has to be this way.' Details on the Hayward Touring exhibition 'Quiet Revolution' that I'm curating will be released at the end of April.

February 19

Back online- currently in US working on catalogue for the Quiet Revolution show. More soon on the 'Automatic' show in September, and several upcoming texts in the April issue of Frieze

January 26

Kutlureflash have posted a short review of the Corpus Callosum show. It's probably been there a while, but I only became aware of it this week...The show runs through this coming Sunday 1st Feb.

January 21

My review of the current Superflex show on at South London Gallery is now up on the Frieze website, here. I've also posted images of Dave and Karl's new work up in Studio 1.1 in the Corpus Callosum show section of the site.

January 12

My essay 'What's New: Television's Mutual Contract' is now upon video artist Michelle Deignan's website. 'Corpus Callosum' with David Beattie and Karl Burke is now open at Studio 1.1 on Redchurch St. through Sunday 1st February. Karl also is also in the group show 'Volume', curated by Dennis McNulty, opening at Dublin's Temple Bar Gallery this coming thursday the 15th, while David has a solo exhibition at Oonagh Young Gallery in Dublin opening thursday the 29th.

January 2 2009

Happy New year! One week from now the Beattie and Burke show at Studio 1.1 will be open, please drop by. Frieze's January-February issue 120 has been out for a few weeks now, with my review of the Drawing Room's last exhibition, 'TINA', which was curated by Olivia Plender.

December 16

Circa's Winter issue number 126 has just come out, with my reviews of Tom Flanagan's show in Dundalk in August, and the Rainer Ganahl show at G126 in Galway. Art & Australia's summer issue (Vol. 46, #2) has also just come out, with a short review of the Tom Nicholson installation from Bath that I also covered for October's Frieze. David Beattie and Karl Burke's exhibition 'Corpus Calosum' opens at Studio 1.1 on Redchurch St on January 8th, so hope if you're in London an in need of clearing out the new year's cobwebs please come down!

November 16

I've added an 'Exhibitons' section to detail some of the curatorial projects lined up for the coming year, foremost the exhibition of David Beattie and Karl Burke opening the 8th January in Redchurch Street's Studio 1.1. Myself and Kate McLarnon have collaborated to create a page for the publication accompanying Ciaran Walsh's exhibition at The Market Studios in Dublin, opening this comign Friday. Also, Art Current's publication 'Artistic Bedfellows: Histories, Theories and Conversations in Collaborative Art Practices' is out now; edited by Holly Crawford, with contributions from Grant Kester, Critical Art Ensemble, gelitin, and a short text by myself on the concept and progress of the This Way Up comic project.

October 30

The new Frieze Nov-Dec issue with my review of Charles Avery's Islanders show at Parasol Unit has just hit the streets. Currently working on a music video for Miss Paula Flynn, a text for video artist Michelle Deignan, towards the january Beattie+Burke show, and also towards a larger group show working with the Hayward Touring program. This show, provisionally with my title The Quiet Revolution, will start at Milton Keynes next July; more to follow once the artists taking part are confirmed!

October 10

My review/'critic's pick' of the Auguste Orts show 'Correspondence' is up on Artforum.com here. January 2009 I'll be curating an exhibition of David Beattie and Karl Burke in Studio 1.1 on Redchurch St in east London, opening party on Thursday 8th January 6pm. More info on this to follow soon in the 'news' and 'projects' sections.

September 28

I've posted a review of the Notwist album 'The Devil, You + Me' in the Reviews section, the first review that's published exclusively on this site. Frieze 118, the October issue, is out this week including my review of Tom Nicholson and Andrew Byrne's 'Lines Towards Another Century' that took place in Bath earlier this year. A shorter piece I wrote on the same show will be published in the next issue of Art & Australia out in December. The Frieze Art Fair 2008 Yearbook is now available as well, with 11 short contributions from myself (among 300...), it can be purchased from the Frieze website, or from the art fair itself when it happens in mid October.

August 26

The new September issue of Frieze 117 is out now, with my review of Jason Lute's Berlin Book Two: City of Stones in the books section, and also online here. Dennis McNulty's 'some process/assess its output' publication documenting and interpreting his Anti-Tours should be released in October, as both a physical box and an online pdf, including my essay 'The Cinematic Condition', I'll keep you posted.

July 2

My review of the 'Nowhere is Here' group show at the Drawing Room is up on Artforum.com. I've also been writing the press releases accompanying the exhibitions at Kate MacGarry, including the 'Swans Reflecting Elephants' show with Varda Caivano, Renee So, and Rose Wylie, opening this Friday. There should be some news of various pieces being published and released soon, so check back soon.

June 11

Circa's Summer issue, number 124, is now on sale. The cover features Bea McMahon's 'Last sandwich bar in the world' (2007), which is discussed as part of my essay "Inner Space" in that issue.

June 2

The Summer issue of Frieze (116) is just out with my review of Vanessa Billy, also just up on Artforum is a short review of David Adamo at IBID. Circa's summer issue with my sci-fi article is out in the coming weeks, also just been finishing up an article on the 'phenomenology of the speech bubble' for a new magazine called Oblong, which launches in August this year. I've contributed several texts for the Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2008 on artists such as David Noonan, Scott Treleaven, and Pernice Manfred, which will be out in September in time for the fair. More soon.

Cinqo de Mayo

I've been spending a fair amount of the past few weeks putting together bags made out of fused together recycled plastic bags, so I've put a few images up in the projects section. check it out, try it out!

1 April

I've finally added a new comic to the Comics section, the diminutive Fly Chronicles; the April Frieze is out this week with my review of Dorota Jurczak. I've just been finishing up an article about science fiction and artists like David Beattie, Nina Canell, Bea McMahon, for the Summer issue of Circa. More soon! April fish.

21 March

The review of "Liveline: Comics Open" show currently on in Richmond is now up on Artforum.com, running until the 12 April. A write up of the Rivane Neuenschwander show in Stephen Friedman gallery should be up there by early next week as well! Happy chocolate bunny weekend.

17 March '08

Happy paddy's day! I've started trying to get back into drawing, starting the 'Cartooning' book/course by Ivan Brunetti that came with the 2007 issue of Comic Art. I think he presumes you have talent to start with, but I hope to put some of the more finished/tolerable results up here soon. David Godbold's exhibition 'Representations of the Natural World' opened last week at Galerie Paul Kusseneers in Antwerp; the accompanying catalogue includes an essay, 'The Language of the Walls', where I discuss Godbold's work and its relationship to historical precedents to the modern speech bubble in comics. The book can be purchased from the gallery for 10 euro. Look for my review of Dorota Jurczak's recent exhibition in Corvi-Mora in the April issue of Frieze.

22 February '08

A few goings on: two new reviews of mine are currently up on the Artforum.com 'Critic's Picks' on Roman Signer and Dennis McNulty. The House Projects book is now out, with design by the award winning Irish designers Atelier and a selection of some of the best Irish art writers. A new 'Reviews' section has been added to this site, to distinguish between other essays and pieces, as well as to provide a section to self publish my own reviews (soon, I hope). Also, the 'Links' sections has been revised and extended.

21 January '08

Mother's Tankstation Annual 2007 is out now, with six essays I wrote covering all of their exhibitions last year from the Last Blue Sky moving image show in January '06 to Thorsten Brinkmann's Palais D'Edelweiss installation which just closed. The book is hardback in full colour, with some great photos of the work, and can be found online at Word Power Books, Akademika, Blackwell, Amazon Japan (?) as well as directly from the gallery itself. I also found a piece describing the entire House Projects undertaking by Mary Cremin, who organised the New York exhibition of the Projects. A link to her article, published in the Nov/Dec 2007 issue of the Visual Artists Ireland News Sheet, can be found at the Lighthouse page in the Projects section of this site, as well as right here.

11 January '08

I've just added the first two short edits of the series of videos I've been working on under the working title of 'Quiet Revolution', any comments appreciated. I hope to make longer edits as the project continues. The House Projects catalogue launch has been confirmed for Friday the 8th February 17.00-18.30 in the Project Arts Centre, Dublin.

January 2008

Happy New Year- I've managed to update the Projects page to include documentation of the Lighthouse caravan cinema, and the Fidgeting Echoes short film should work too. I hope to include some of the Quiet Revolution videos I've been working on, and potentially showing later this year. House Projects, a set of 7 exhibitions in Ireland, England and the US in 2007 (which included Lighthouse) will be launching its catalogue in February 2008 in the Project Arts Centre, Dublin. The catalogue includes contributions from Maeve Connolly, Declan Long, Padraic Moore, and Tim Stott and is designed by Atelier. More details to follow.

December 2007

Having recast the This Way Up project site to function as as place to encompass my writing, various comic efforts, and other ongoing projects. This section will broadcast any updates and information - recently published articles, upcoming exhibitions.