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Category: Essays

Text: Sophie Lee – Make Place

  • By Jack
  • March 31, 2017

I was pleased write an introductory text to Sophie Lee’s excellent exhibition Make Place (below). Make Place is a solo exhibition by Sophie Lee investigating the artist’s interpretations into notions of […]

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Commission: Shapes of Water, Sounds of Hope

  • By Jack
  • September 23, 2016

I’ve been commissioned by Super Slow Way to respond to Suzanne Lacy’s major project Shapes of Water, Sounds of Hope in Brierfield. The result of the project will be the creation of […]

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Feature: Super Slow Way

  • By Jack
  • November 13, 2015

My feature on Super Slow Way, commissioned by CVAN as part of its #writecritical programme, has been published on The Double Negative. Read it here. Image:  Stephen Turner’s Exbury Egg, western red […]

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Essay: A Sense of Place

  • By Jack
  • February 27, 2014

On a mild Friday evening in mid-October, a week or so before the clocks went back, the third Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival (WCAF) launched. For the majority of the evening, […]

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Schauen: the work of Liz West

  • By Jack
  • February 16, 2014

Colour, as Josef Albers astutely observed, ‘deceives continually.’[i] As I write this text on a laborious train journey, the seat before me, I would argue, is a faded medium vermillion red, in […]

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Platforms: Portfolio NW and its relationship to arts criticism.

  • By Jack
  • February 5, 2014

If you trawl through the abundance of press releases, organisational remits and artistic opportunities available online, you will likely notice a recurring word. The core meanings of this simple noun […]

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A Permanent Fixture? The Paolozzi Mosaics at Tottenham Court Road

  • By Jack
  • February 4, 2014

If you have visited Tottenham Court Road Tube station recently then you could have not failed to notice that the station is a construction site. Built over a century ago […]

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Knots and Flats

  • By Jack
  • February 4, 2014

The readymade can prove to be rather a poisoned chalice for an artist to drink from. With its associated and unmistakable framework of artistic connotations, the object in question is […]

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The Rijksmuseum + Amsterdam Schiphol: The Museum within the AirportCity

  • By Jack
  • February 4, 2014

The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Schiphol: The Museum within the AirportCity The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Schiphol Schiphol Airport, the gargantuan site located on the outskirts of Amsterdam, is Europe’s fifth busiest airport and […]

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Processing Newspaper

  • By Jack
  • June 23, 2013

The Processing newspaper is now available. It’s a 24 page colour newspaper which was successfully crowdfunded in May. The newspaper features new written texts by Kenn Taylor, Linda Pittwood and […]

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