Besides my career as a Contemporary Artist, I am also a writer. I’ve been exploring written work since 2014 as an avid creative writer, but have been freelancing professionally since 2023. Most notably my writing has been published physically in Short Supply’s book, ‘517 Degrees.’
I specialise in entertainment and culture content. While I often write about a wide range of topics, my preferred niches are music, film, books and contemporary art.
From highly-researched historical pieces, reviews, articles, and brand copy, to stories and thoughtful musings, my writing is varied depending upon the targeted audience. That being said, my writing is always conversational, neat, well-researched, and poetically flared.
Below are some examples of my more highly researched pieces. You can find my poems, short stories, reviews and ramblings over on my blog!
ESSAY: ‘Colours of Resistance’
How the Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art Movement Reflected the Political Landscape of the 1970’s
STUDY: ‘The Home and Being Human’
Who are we where we are? Research on the growing use and importance the subject of home has in the contemporary art world and wider media, and how it is integral in expressing identity.
ESSAY: ‘The Record of Being’
A deep dive on On Kawara’s ‘I GOT UP,’ 1968-1979 series, exploring how the use of simplistic objects and philosophical themes of time, combined with a deep understanding of technical elegance and mysterious personal history catapulted Kawara into a legendary and celebrated conceptual artist.
ESSAY: ‘Happy People Have No Stories’
A homage to Louise Bourgeois and her practice through the analysis of Maman (1999) and Destruction of The Father (1974) using feminist and psychoanalytic methodologies.
517 DEGREES
BOOK BY SHORT SUPPLY
“517 Degrees celebrates five years of MADE IT, the graduate art prize for the North West, established in 2019 by Short Supply. It’s about an idea, which became an art prize, which became the springboard of an organisation, but it’s also about our personal journey of navigating the ‘creative industries’ — whatever that really means. It features the artists who have exhibited in MADE IT over the last five years, and essays by guest writers exploring the art landscape in the region.” — Short Supply
“517 Degrees with honesty, humour and insight looks back over five years of a crucial North West award and offers an honest and devastatingly funny insight into life after art school in the twenty-first century.” — Marie-Anne McQuay - Curator, Liverpool Biennial 2025
You can order your copy now at shortsupply.org/book
You can find my contribution to the book on pages 208-209.
