Chakaia Booker and Carol Rama, Against the Day
Short review published in Art Review, April 2023 (Forthcoming)
Disappointing Art
Essay published in The Tangerine no. 13 (Forthcoming)
Conflicting Spaces
Commissioned essay for the launch of the Irish Photo Network website, November 2022
Thoughts on friendship
Short text written alongside the exhibition things being friends, Gebäude 501, Tempelhof Airport, November 2022
Nina Canell, Tectonic Tender
Review published in Paper Visual Art vol. 14, September 2022
Spleen
Short essay published in Nothing Personal no. 2, March 2022
Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement 2021, Geneva
Review published in Art Review, Jan/Feb 2022
Somewhere and Nowhere at All
Essay commissioned for Groundings (Jan 2022), a joint project of EVA International, Lofoten International Art Festival, and Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art.
Ja'tovia Gary, The Giverny Suite
Short review published in Art Review, September 2021
Out of Touch
Essay published in Paper Visual Art Journal 12, August 2021
Space for Two
Short essay published in You and i are Earth, edited by Fergus Feehily for Paper Visual Art Journal, March 2021
The Trouble With Being Bored
Essay reprinted in Some Good Will Come, the anthology of Fallow Media's first five years, February 2021
Frank Sweeney: All I believe happened there was vision
Introductory text written for aemi online, July 2020
Two Painters
Catalogue essay written for exhibition by Kathy Tynan and Andrew Vickery, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Feb–April 2020
Art Encounters 2019, Timișoara, Romania
Review published in Art Review (Dec 2019)
Incoming: Gaby Sahhar
Feature published in Sleek no. 63, Autumn 2019
Frances Stark, lonely and abandoned on the market place
Review published in Art Review, September 2019
Straying from the Line (Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin)
Review published in Eyeline, Summer 2019
Elvia Wilk, Oval
Book review published at The Stinging Fly, August 2019
Rising, as such
Short text on the work of Andrea Büttner, published alongside the exhibition '…and the days run away like wild horses over the hills…' Dublin, Summer 2019
Incoming: Louise Bonnet
Published in Sleek no. 62, Summer 2019
Producing Futures: A Book on Post-Cyber-Feminisms
Book review published in 032c no. 36, Summer 2019
Surveillé.e.s, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
Review published in Paper Visual Art Journal 10, April
Hannah Black, Aeter
Review published in Art Review, March
Thinking of the Network
Short essay written for IMMA publication 'The Edit,' March 1
Helen Marten, Fixed Sky Situation (König Galerie, Berlin)
Review at Burlington Contemporary, 20 Feb
What Moves you?
Short report on Transmediale 2019, written for Map, 15 February
Instead of an object
Catalogue text for Walker & Walker, Nowhere without no(w) (IMMA, Dublin, Feb 2019)
With Stupid
Essay in Doggerland, On Sociality and Idiocy: A Reader, February 2019
Outside In
Short text written about Evan Roth's Red Lines project, for Artangel, January 2019
Beatriz González, Retrospective 1965–2017 (KW, Berlin)
Review published in Eyeline, Winter 2018
Barbara Kleinhamplová, Sickness Report
Review published at The White Review, 13 December 2018
How Should We Look at Cornelius Gurlitt’s Trove of Nazi-Looted Art?
Hyperallergic, 14 November 2018
Jo Applin, Lee Lozano: Not Working
Book review published in 032c no. 35, Winter 2018/19
The Utopian Visions of Geta Brătescu
Published at Apollo, September 2018
Simon Fujiwara, Joanne
Review published in Paper Visual Art Journal 9, Autumn 2018
Titus Schade, Plateau, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
Review published in Art Review, September 2018
Hannah Levy, Panic Hardware
Essay written alongside solo exhibition at mother's tankstation, Dublin, May-July 2018
How to tame a distance: On the recent work of Noel McKenna
Essay published in 'Tied Up Dogs Rose Bay,' Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, August 2018
Acting Out: Jane Cummins, 'Half Sick of Shadows'
Essay in Source Photographic Review 94, Summer 2018
Leslie Jamison, The Recovery
Book review published at The Stinging Fly, June 2018
Ana Mendieta, Covered in Time and History
Review published at Apollo, June 2018
Áine McBride: Between Building and Unbuilding
Published alongside 'work suite,' mother's tankstation, Dublin, Feb-April 2018
EVA International 2018, Limerick
Review published in Art Review, June-August 2018
Straight Edge
Short essay written for Real Life (US), May 2018
Negative Space (again)
Essay reprinted in Junior 3 (Empathy), April 2018
Dragana Jurišić, My Own Unknown
Exhibition review published in Source Photographic Review, Spring 2018
Maria Fusco, Give Up Art
Book review published in Map Magazine (UK), March 2018
Report: Response to a Request
Published in Visual Artists' News Sheet, March-April 2018
Negative Space
Essay published in The Tangerine no. 4 (Winter 2017)
Alona Rodeh, The Runner (LIVE)
KOENIG2 by_robbygreif, Vienna, Oct-Nov 2017. Review published in Spike Art Quarterly (AT), Winter 2017
Kate Nolan, LACUNA
Gallery of Photography, Sept-Oct 2017. Review published in Source no. 92 (Winter 2017)
Noel McKenna, Not too hot, not too cold
Text written for publication alongside McKenna's solo exhibition at mother's tankstation, Dublin, Sept - Oct 2017
Brian Dillon, Essayism
Book review published at The Stinging Fly (online), October 2017
The New Conservatism
In which I think about Morgan Quaintance's recent essay for e-flux conversations (blog)
Maria Farrar, straits
Text written for publication alongside Farrar's solo exhibition at mother's tankstation, Dublin, May - July 2017
Awkward angle of perception
Text written for publication alongside Diana Copperwhite's 'Crooked Orbit,' at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, June-July 2017
Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone
Review published at Paper Visual Art Journal, April 2017
Alasdair McLuckie, The Birth of Form
Text written for mother's tankstation, Dublin, April 2017
Dreams of Plastic Love
Text written for Caroline Doolin's 'Fault Found Bodies,' Project Arts Centre, Dublin, February-April 2017
If the Ground Should Open...
Review of Jaki Irvine's solo exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, published in Eyeline 86 (Spring 2017)
I told you I was ill
Catalogue text for Tamsin Snow and Sarah Tynan's 'Resort,' Mermaid Arts Centre, March – April 2017
The Trace That's Left in Us
Essay on Alan Butler's Down and Out in Los Santos project, published at Fallow Media, March 2017
sunset provision
Text written for Yuri Pattison's exhibition at mother's tankstation, Dublin, Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
On our collective wet dream
Essay published in Paper Visual Art Journal 7, October 2016
Foreign Objects
Review of Robert Anderson, Laura Eldret, and Florian Roithmayr's exhibition at CCA Derry-Londonderry, published at this is tomorrow, September 2016
Amazement Insulates Us All/Memento Vivere
Review of George Bolster & Damian Doyle's exhibition at the Lab, Dublin, published in Enclave Review 14, August 2016
Why not, indeed (blog)
On subjectivity in art criticism (a response to James Merrigan's 'Liminal’s fine, but...')
Pretentious is...?
Short essay published in the Visual Artists’ News Sheet, May-June 2016
The Trouble with Being Bored
Essay published at Fallow Media, June 2016
What's the Use in Being a Writer?
Short text published in Critical Bastards 12, May 2016
Metabolising the city
Essay written for Cui Jie's 'Former, Latter,' at mother's tankstation, Dublin, May-June 2016
Meme as Critique: On the Recent Practice of Metahaven
Essay published in Third Floor Graduate Journal, Montreal, April 2016
Who is Art Criticism For?
Text presented at 'The Value of Criticism,' Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, February 2016.
fell again, bad show
On Matt Sheridan Smith's exhibition 'Pilot Fig. 3 Ep.1,' mother’s tankstation, February-April 2016
Gretchen Bender, Total Recall
Review published at this is tomorrow, December 2015
Display Show
Review published in Frieze no. 174, October 2015
Eoin McHugh, the skies will be friendlier then
Review published in Paper Visual Art Journal vol. 6 (Blueprint), October 2015
Glencree Intervention
Text written for publication alongside David Lunney's exhibition at The Lab, Dublin, September 2015
The Pattern Exchange
Essay written for Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, March 2015
Beyond Metaphor, Mapping Social Systems (blog)
A response to Dr Francis Halsall and Kelley O’Brien's collaborative project 'Beyond Metaphor, Mapping Social Systems'.
Attentive Festivalisation
Essay published in The Visual Artists' News Sheet, Jan-Feb 2015
A Rethinking of Place
Essay written for Niamh O' Malley's exhibition at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Dec-Feb 2015
B-O-M-B
Short text written for Kathy Tynan's exhibition, 'The Sky is All Changed,' Hendron's Collider, Dublin, 2014
A Seductive Union
Essay published in Caoimhe Doyle, ed., 2014, Weaponising Speculation, New York: Punctum Books
Mother's Annual 2013
Six essays on the year's programme at mother's tankstation Dublin, 2013
Sam Keogh, Mop
Review published in Enclave Review 9, Winter 2013
Art and Philosophy: What Happens Next? (bad audio)
Teresa Gillespie, Robert Jackson and myself talking at NCAD, December 2013
Frances Upritchard, Mandrake
Review published in Apollo (online), September 2013
Approaching the Rotunda
Catalogue text for 'Cloud Illusions I Recall,' Irish Museum of Modern Art, June-August 2013
Aleana Egan, The Sensitive Plant
Review published in Paper Visual Art Journal 5: Dublin Edition, June 2013
An Object Among Others
Essay published in the artist Barbara Knezevic's publication 'Object Registry,' May 2013
Mark Clare, The Two Horns of Phaedrus
Review published in Paper Visual Art Journal 4: Cork Edition, April 2013
The Iterable Gesture
Essay published in Das Super Paper 26 (Re: Performance), March 2013
Untitled text
Presented as part of the debate Autonomous Practices, Autonomous Objects, Autonomous Institutions, which took alongside Sarah Pierce’s exhibition 'Towards a Newer Laocoon,' November 2012
Mairead O’hEocha: The Sky was Yellow and the Sun was Blue
Review published online at Paper Visual Art Journal, September 2012
Regarding Olympia’s cat: Aesthetic Genetics and the Art Genome Project™
Essay published in Paper Visual Art Journal 3: Limerick Edition, August 2012
Not this, not that
Essay published in Fergus Feehily's (very beautiful) publication, 'Into the Garden' 2012
Holding on to your Shadow
Essay published in Sean O' Sullivan's 'The Wheel,' Spring 2011
Making Do with Non-Place
Unpublished text from 2010, designed and printed by Sean O'Sullivan
Faith in Failure
Essay published in Padraic E. Moore (ed.) ‘Investigations into the Super-Physical,’ Cork Art Trail, November 2010