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2022
Forthcoming (August) – profile of Colin Reid for Neues Glas-New Glass
Forthcoming – 15 glass artists of note, for Crafts online
Forthcoming – catalogue essays on contemporary glass art and design for Vessel Gallery
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 Magazine, 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 – artist profile for 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 Magazine, 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