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2023
‘Collaborating couples’ – feature on couples in art and life working in glass. Forthcoming, Glass Quarterly
Review of the Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery. Forthcoming, Glass Quarterly
Review of the British Glass Biennale and associated events. Forthcoming, Glass Quarterly
Museums and commercial galleries: a positive relationship. Forthcoming catalogue essay for Vessel Gallery
Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg. Forthcoming catalogue essay for Vessel Gallery
Glass art in Britain today. Forthcoming catalogue essay for Vessel Gallery
Shattering Beauty by Simon Berger, Museo del Vetro, Murano – exhibition review. Forthcoming, Art-Frame
2022
Lino Tagliapietra. Does Muranese glass have a future? – Art-Frame, 1 December 2022
‘Stories to Tell: Petr Novotný and the regeneration of Czech glass’, Glass Quarterly, No. 169, Winter 2022
‘Whispers Down the Lane’ – profile of Erin Dickson, Glass Quarterly, No. 169, Winter 2022
‘Reflection’ – essay on women glassmakers in Murano, Glass Quarterly, No. 169, Winter 2022
Review of First Impression, autumn exhibition at the Charles Burnand Gallery, Glass Quarterly, No. 169, Winter 2022
The Venice Glass Week 2022: Creativity, collaboration, resilience, Art-Frame, 28 November 2022
Murano in crisis – ‘Deep Dive’ article for The Design Edit, 24 October 2022
Hotshop Hits – review of Stourbridge Glass Museum and the Musée du Verre de Conches, Crafts magazine, Autumn-Winter 2022, pp. 60-61
The glass ceiling: has the UN’s International Year of Glass 2022 cut through? – Crafts online, 19 September 2022
Venice Glass Week 2022 – moderator, online ‘Conversation’ on Glass: Between Craft, Design and Art, 19 September 2022
The Mythologist, feature on Lene Bødker, Glass Quarterly, No. 168, Fall 2022
Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg at the Musée du Verre de Conches (review), Glass Quarterly, No. 168, Fall 2022
Steffen Dam at the Glasmuseet Ebeltoft (review), Glass Quarterly, No. 168, Fall 2022
Under nature’s spell – Colin Reid, Neues Glas-New Glass, No. 3/2022
Louis Thompson, Ebb and Flow, catalogue essay for Vessel Gallery, July 2022
Musée du Verre de Conches – review of the newly reopened glass museum and the inaugural exhibition by Baldwin and Guggisberg, The Design Edit, 12 July 2022
15 glass artists you should know, Crafts Council Stories, 6 July 2022
Fredrik Nielsen, profile for The Design Edit, 5 July 2022
Walking the Line(s) – essay on whether art in glass can reach the status of a fine art, Glass Quarterly, No. 167, Summer 2022
Glass as Art, Glass as Lifestyle: Sweden’s Kosta Boda Finds Its Way – essay for Glass Quarterly, No. 167, Summer 2022
Lena 25+: A solo exhibition by Lena Bergström – catalogue essay for Vessel Gallery
Between fabricator and fine artist – review of ‘A State of Matter: Modern and Contemporary Glass Sculpture’ exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, for Crafts, issue 294, May/June 2022
Clarity and Passion – essay on ‘Tapio Wirkkala and Toni Zuccheri at Venini’ exhibition at the Stanze del Vetro, Glass Quarterly, No. 166, Spring 2022
Bruno Romanelli – Glass Quarterly, No. 166, Spring 2022
Distant Electric Vision – catalogue essay on Jon Lewis for Vessel Gallery, 10 January 2022
2021
To Split the Night – feature on Fred Tschida, Richard William Wheater, and the CIRCLESPHERE exhibition at the Art House, Wakefield, Glass Quarterly, No. 165 (Winter 2021-22)
Capturing History: Glass Ships in Bottles – review of exhibition curated by Ayako Tani at the Scottish Maritime Museum, Glass Network digital (22 November 2021)
Just Glass Seminar 2021 – brief profiles of artists Kate Jones, Rachel Phillips, Georgia Redpath, Ruth Shelley and Helen Slater-Stokes and for the newsletter, November 2021
Juli Bolaños-Durman: The Serendipity of Fragments – Neues Glas-New Glass No. 4/2021
The First European Glass Prize at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland – Neues Glas-New Glass No. 4/2021
Animal attraction – essay on ‘Glass Ark: Animals in the Pierre Rosenberg Collection’ at the Stanze del Vetro, Glass Quarterly, Issue 164, Fall 2021
Elliot Walker – On Glass, Green Fingers and Puppetry – Neues Glas-New Glass No. 3/2021
Looking glass – essay on Chris Day’s exhibition at Harewood House, Crafts, issue 290, September-October 2021
London Glassblowing at 45 – review, Glass Network digital, 29 September 2021
Formed From Instinct. A solo exhibition by Nina Casson McGarva – exhibition essay for Vessel Gallery, London, July 2021, reprinted in Ceramics Now, 22 July 2021
A Sculptor with Consummate Skill – feature on British glass artist Elliot Walker, Glass Quarterly, no. 163, Summer 2021
On the Grand Canal, this crumbling Venetian palazzo has been given a new lease of life – the Palazzo Vendramin Grimani & the Fondazione dell’Albero d’Oro, Apollo online, 27 May 2021
Conversation with Elliot Walker – excerpts from an interview, Hot Sheet (the Glass Quarterly blog), 7 April 2021
Search for Self – feature on British glass artist Chris Day, Glass Quarterly, no. 162, Spring 2021
2020
On the Shoulders of Giants – review of ‘Venice and American Studio Glass’ exhibition at the Stanze del Vetro, Glass Quarterly, no. 161, Winter 2020
Naked positions – Mary Beard’s Shock of the Nude, reviewed – Apollo, 5 February 2020
2019
Shock value – feature on American glass artist John Moran, Glass Quarterly, no. 157, Winter 2019
It’s not art, it’s bananas – on Maurizio Cattelan’s ‘Comedian’, ArtDependence, 7 December 2019
No Strings at the Glasmuseet Ebeltoft – glass: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly (“Glass Quarterly“), no. 157, Winter 2019
Glass act – inside the Danish museum devoted to studio glass – Apollo online, 17 October 2019
Does glassmaking make good television? Blown Away reviewed – Apollo online, 16 August 2019
Hedonism in Herculaneum – a guide to good living in a luxurious Roman villa – feature article in Apollo Magazine, 27 July 2019
Concepts into Clay: William Cobbing, Haptic Loop, Cooke Latham Gallery – ArtDependence Magazine, 22 May 2019
Zhou Li, Original State of Mind, at White Cube Bermondsey, London – ArtDependence Magazine, 30 April 2019
Edvard Munch: Love and Angst, British Museum – ArtDependence Magazine, 16 April 2019
The Renaissance Nude – ArtDependence Magazine, 21 March 2019
Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean – Apollo online, 12 February 2019
‘Vetro chic’ – review of exhibition, The M.V.M. Cappellin Glassworks and the Young Carlo Scarpa 1925-1931, at the Stanze del Vetro, Apollo Magazine, January 2019
2018
How Mario Bellini is breathing new life into Venetian glass – Apollo online, 16 November 2018
The Design Museum Zürich gets a stylish makeover – Apollo online, 12 September 2018
2017 and earlier
Ashes to Ashmolean – Oxonian Review, 9 November 2009
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