Selected Writing

Fantasy Double Features of 2025 / MUBI Notebook (contributor; 2025)

Lee Miller: A Trailblazing Photographer / Aesthetica 128 (2025)

Gabriella Boyd: I trust you would (exhibition text) / GRIMM Amsterdam (2025)

Trouble in the Hinterlands / The London Magazine (October/November 2025)

Mona Batoum: Encounters / Aesthetica: 127 (2025)

Pioneering author Jean Rhys was hard to define. In London, artists give it a try / Wallpaper* (2025)

Sarah Brahim’s body as a cartography exploring ritual and gendered resistance / British Journal of Photography (2025)

Life Is Not Disposable / Tribune (2025)

Bleak Intimacies / LA Review of Books (2025)

Culture is obsessed with rediscovering female artists—but why were they ever lost? / A Rabbit’s Foot (2025)

How Artists Are Responding to the Horrors of the Magdalene Laundries / Frieze (2025)

Constellations of detail / The Times Literary Supplement (2025)

More Than Human: An Alternative Vision of the World / Aesthetica: 126 (2025)

Despite moments of beauty, the ‘Hot Milk’ film adaption drifts aimlessly / Wallpaper* (2025)

Alice Adams, Louise Bourgeois, and Eva Hesse delve into art’s ‘uckiness’ at The Courtauld / Wallpaper* (2025)

Ed Atkins: Autobiographical Creations / Aesthetica: 125 (2025)

The Ouroboros / essay for Charlotte Colbert: Chasing Rainbows (2025)

‘I smile every time’: why Amélie is my feelgood movie / Guardian (2025)

There Is Something Sinister Behind the Obsession With Mummy Pig’s Pregnancy/ Slate (2025)

Leigh Bowery: Boundary Pushing Art / Aesthetica: 124 (2025)

Unlike the gloriously grotesque imagery in his films, Yorgos Lanthimos’ photographs are quietly beautiful / Wallpaper* (2025)

Talismans of Fuckery: Penny Goring at Arcadia Missa / Elephant (2025)

Róisín Lanigan’s chilling debut novel explores the horror of renting / Dazed (2025)

How to Get Into Chantal Akerman, a Forensic Master of Feminist Film / AnOther (2025)

Eimear McBride’s Propulsive Novel Unfolds Over One Night in Mid-90s London / AnOther (2025)

Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize / Aesthetica: 123 (2025)

Truth Social: On the Still-Human Films of Sohrab Hura / MUBI Notebook (2025)

The Working-Class Poetry of Tove Ditlevsen / Frieze (2025)

Fantasy Double Features of 2024 / MUBI Notebook (contributor; 2024)

Surrealism as feminist resistance: artists against fascism in Leeds / Wallpaper* (2024)

Photography From the Black Atlantic /Aesthetica: 122 (2024)

Towards New Worlds in Middlesbrough redefines how we experience art / Wallpaper* (2024)

Virginie Despentes Is Writing a Better Way to Live / Spike (2024)

Artists want to be anyone but themselves / Plaster (2024)

Florence Peake and Eve Stainton’s Chemistry Isn’t a Performance
 / Elephant (2024)

An Artist Invents a ‘Rediscovered’ Woman Painter. Is It a Bold Critique of the Art World or Just Another Gimmick? / Artnet (2024)

Mummy Issues / The London Magazine (October/November 2024)

Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent / Aesthetica: 121 (2024)

Judy Chicago: Revelations / Aesthetica: 120 (2024)

Tory Britain’s Literary Post-Mortem / The London Magazine (August/September 2024)

Will Good Art Save Us From the End of the World? / Elephant (2024)

What Does ‘Acts of Creation’ Tell Us About the State of Motherhood Then and Today? / Elephant (2024)

A Guide to the Sensual, Experimental Cinema of Marguerite Duras / AnOther (2024)

Where Is All the Sad Boy Literature? / Esquire (2024)

The Return of the Angel in Modern Art / Elephant (2024)

Lauren Elkin’s Debut Novel Is a Haunting Portrait of Two Marriages in Paris / AnOther (2024)

Nan Goldin takes over London’s Welsh Chapel with a provocative new film / Wallpaper* (2024)

Joanne Coates: Middle of Somewhere / Aesthetica: Issue 119 (2024)

Wynnie Mynerva’s Heavenly Bodies / Elephant (2024)

Gravity and GRACE: The Colourful World of Alvaro Barrington‘s Tate Commission / Elephant (featured on Thaddeus Ropac) (2024)

Step into Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron’s dreamy photographs in London / Wallpaper* (2024)

Why Women are Laying Themselves Bare in Visual Autofiction / Elephant (2024)

Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece: Bloomsbury’s untold story / Wallpaper* (2024)

The Enigma of Simone Weil / Verso (2024)

Writer Annie Ernaux’s works are brought to photographic life in Paris / Wallpaper* (2024)

How Rachel Rose and Paulina Olowska took me back to the woods / Elephant (2024)

Why are we so obsessed with how female artists die? / Plaster (2024)

Anselm Kiefer’s Intimate Watercolors Reveal His Softer Side / Artsy (2024)

Monica Sjöö: The Great Cosmic Mother of Anarchist Art / Elephant (2024)

Frock Consciousness / The London Magazine (February/March 2024)

How the occult bewitched London art / Plaster (2023)

What of the vulva in art? / Elephant (2023)

Joy, tenderness and intimacy are celebrated by artists in London / Wallpaper* (2023)

Christina Quarles on contorting your body to fit into the frame / Wallpaper* (2023)

Doomsday, sci-fi and intimacy: Gray Wielebinski at the ICA, London / Wallpaper* (2023)

A romanticised sense of home, inspired by the opulence — and intimacy — of Brideshead Revisited / Financial Times (2023)

The Happy Couple: Naoise Dolan’s New Book Queers the Marriage Novel / AnOther (2023)

In 2023, throuples are having a moment / Polyester (2023)

‘Thank you for the nurture’: Kinship and Posthumanism in Orphan Black / Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism 2 (2), 48-62 (2023)

In defence of ‘sad girl’ art /Dazed (2023)

Social media is stopping us from healing /i-D (2023)

In defence of The Bling Ring / Little White Lies (2023)

The children of sperm donors are calling out the fertility industry / Huck (2023)

‘Choking’ during sex is on the rise – we need sex education about consent more than ever / Glamour (2023)

In the age of anti-police sentiment, why do we still love detective stories so much? / Little White Lies (2023)

Youth in Bloom: Girlhood Sexual Agency & Nondichotomous Sexual Consent in The Diary of a Teenage Girl / MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture (2023)

Ocean: Exploring the Marine World / Aesthetica: Issue 109 (2022)

Is the rise of surrogacy deepening class divides? / Huck (2022)

Antiwork Feminism Asks Women to Imagine a Life Without Work / VICE (2022)

Students are resisting the Hostile Environment at uni / Huck (2022)

How whisper networks are protecting university students / Huck (2022)

How Julia Armfield Wrote the Year’s Most Terrifying Love Story / AnOther (2022)

Why more young women are turning to celibacy / Huck (2022)

Clutch Your Pearls, the Indie Twee Aesthetic is Back / VICE (2022)

Why we’re pining for the ‘whimsy-gothic’ aesthetic / i-D (2022)

‘Night luxe’ is the aesthetic set to define our roaring twenties i-D (2022)

Derry Girls: “How the hit sitcom helped me connect to my heritage like never before” / Stylist (2022)

Why young people are turning to platonic marriages / Huck (2022)

Author Grace Lavery: “Being a trans woman is very strange” / Dazed (2022)

Why left-wing groups aren’t exempt from sexual assault / Huck (2021)

Phyllis Christopher: Contacts / Aesthetica: Issue 104 (2021)

Why universities must support student sex workers / Huck (2021)

How Queer Women From The Past Are Inspiring TikTok Fashion Of Today / Refinery29 (2021)

The rise of anti-abortion activism in UK universities / Huck (2021)

The Modern-Day Power Of Southern Gothic Fashion/ Refinery29 (2021)

Why incel ideology is spreading through UK universities / Huck (2021)

The Feminine Magic of Mushrooms / Cunning Folk (2021)

Sussex University supports ‘gender critics’ while sexual violence festers / Dazed (2021)

Beyond Dystopia to Paratopia for Reproductive Freedom / Lady Science (2021)

The old-school anarchists helping students take on landlords / Huck (2021)