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.