Publications
Bad Taste (Dialogue Books, 2023)
Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas (Tate Publishing, 2023)
The Horror Show! book (Somerset House, 2023)
Look Again 1: Class (Tate Publishing, 2021)
Steal As Much As You Can (Repeater Books, 2019)
Talks / Lectures
16/11/24 In conversation with Johny Pitts, BuchBasel (tickets)
3/9/24 In conversation with Ralf Webb, Review Bookshop, London (tickets)
20/8/24 Roundtable discussion convened by Jennifer Jasmine White, Studio Voltaire (tickets)
11/8/24 In conversation with Vanessa Kisuule, Edinburgh Book Festival (tickets)
20/7/24 On the art of Beryl Cook, Studio Voltaire (tickets)
6/7/24 In conversation with Will Harris and Daisy Lafarge, Ledbury Poetry Festival (tickets)
7/5/24 Lecture: ‘Vernacular Lived Cultures’, Universität Bern (link)
3/4/24 In conversation with Georgia Graham, Salted Books, Lisbon (tickets)
6/2/24 In conversation with Holly Pester, LRB Bookshop (tickets)
9/11/23 In conversation with Suhaiymah Mansoor Khan and Matt Colquhoun Lighthouse Books, Edinburgh (tickets)
8/11/23 In conversation with Camilla Grudova, Blackwells, Manchester (tickets)
15/7/23 Lecture: ‘The class gaze’, Tate Britain (tickets)
6/7/23 In conversation with Camilla Grudova, The Horse Hospital, London (tickets)
4/5/23 In conversation with Jermaine Francis, Eddie Otechere, Camden Art Centre (tickets)
8/12/22 Reading with Ayo Akingbade and Gboyega Odubanjo, Chisenhale (tickets)
8/10/22 In conversation with Sam Friedman, Birmingham Literature Festival (tickets)
29/5/19 Presentation, Unsound Festival, Krakow (tickets)
Exhibition texts
2024 Turner Prize, Tate Britain
2023 The Horror Show!, Somerset House, London
2022 Jerwood/Photoworks Awards, Jerwood Arts, London
Teaching
I currently teach a course in the department of Comparative Literature at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
I have previously taught on the Writing Programme at the Royal College of Art in London, and the Creative Writing MA course at the University of Derby, specialising in criticism and creative non-fiction.
Articles
Interview with filmmaker Adam Curtis (Crack Magazine)
Object-oriented ontology… the movie! (ArtReview)
Bumping off the leisured class: on the enduring appeal of Patricia Highsmith (TLS)
Has it come to this? We must act now to save Birmingham’s culture from cuts (Guardian)
Photography against the end of history (Tribune)
Notes on the gallery as military hangar (ArtReview)
The problems of class and representation in art (ArtReview)
The final lessons of Janet Malcolm (ArtReview)
On Aftersun (Another Gaze)
The lessons of Nan Goldin’s struggle against the Sacklers (ArtReview)
Remembering Eve Babitz (Tribune)
Class, taste and sour grapes (Tribune)
The tradition of The New (Tribune)
Palaces for All (The White Review)
Viral terminology, technology and capitalism (Verso)
For a left cultural politics (Jacobin)
Bret Easton Ellis and the future of fiction (TLS)