Writing

Criticism

Phalluses, dots and antidepressants: A true blockbuster at NGV, The Age (Dec 2024)
There’s something missing from this spectacular book on Australian art, The Age (Mar 2023)
Famous in their day: The pioneering artists you should know, but don’t, The Age (Sep 2022)
Like a Wheel that Turns at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, The Saturday Paper (2022)
Frances Barrett: Meatus at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, The Saturday Paper (2022)
A Common World: Review of Bri Lee’s ‘Who Gets to Be Smart’, Sydney Review of Books (2021)
Capturing life at the speed of light: NGV shows art’s ‘rock stars’, The Age (Jun 2021)
In a world of wonder, Piccinini asks us to value more than beauty, The Age (Jun 2021)
An unfinished landscape: She-Oak show sheds new light on classics, The Age (Apr 2021)
The 22nd Biennale of Sydney makes witnesses out of us all, Art Guide Australia (Aug 2020)
Kylie Minogue: Fragments of a watery icon, Difficult Fun (Nov 2018)
Ella Sowinska’s ’80 Ways’, Memo Review (Jul 2018)
Totally Mild: How limitlessness is not a given condition, Difficult Fun (May 2018)
Loyalty Does Not End – Genesis P-Orridge at The Substation, Memo Review (Mar 2018)
Jen Cloher Review: On love and the willingness to be fooled, Difficult Fun (Feb 2018)
Xiu Xiu and Twin Peaks: Derivatively original, RealTime Magazine (Jul 2017)
Hearing through capital’s illusions, RealTime Magazine (2015)
Review: Ed Kuepper, Collapse Board (2014)
Review: Go Genre Everything, Scrabbled, Gravel SamWidge, The Legend! Collapse Board (2014)
Review: Amanda Palmer live at a house party in Lutwyche, Collapse Board (2014)

Profiles + Features

‘We are not chickens’: the cry that inspired a show of defiance, The Age Spectrum (Apr 2025)
Don’t like the Kardashians? You can still learn from Kris Jenner, The Age Spectrum (Jan 2025)
The exhibitions you won’t want to miss in 2025, The Age Spectrum (Jan 2025)
When did zombies and cardboard houses become serious art?, The Age Spectrum (Mar 2024)
The year ahead in art: exhibitions coming to Victoria in 2024, The Age Spectrum (Jan 2024)
Meagan Streader and Grace Wood at Melbourne Now, The Age Spectrum (Mar 2023)
The year ahead in art: exhibitions coming to Victoria in 2023, The Age Spectrum (Jan 2023)
Seven rising arts stars to watch in 2023, The Age Spectrum (Jan 2023)
‘Young, vital, clever’: Mandy Martin’s trailblazing vision, The Age Spectrum (Nov 2022)
Famous in their day: Pioneering artists you should know, but don’t, The Age Spectrum (Sep 2022)
Spotlight on the two women who changed art scene, The Age Spectrum (Jul 2022)
Primal, addictive, risky: up-and-coming artists making their mark, The Age Spectrum (Jun 2022)
The 10 art shows to look out for in 2022, The Age Spectrum (Jan 2022)
Bringing the outside in, Art Guide Australia (May/Jun 2021)
Iterations: John Nixon, Disclaimer (Apr 2021)
The priest and the porter: On Louise Paramor, Art Guide Australia (Jan/Feb 2021)
‘I’m trying to crack a code’: On Darcey Bella Arnold, The Age Spectrum (Nov 2020)
Artist Danila Vassilieff was selling his house with just one catch, The Age Spectrum (Aug 2020)
Seeing like Jeffrey Smart: how empty streets gave new insight, The Age Spectrum (Aug 2020)
It’s the Beginning of a New Age: On Nell, Art Guide Australia (Jul/Aug 2020)
Problematic or romantic? Why self-taught artists don’t quite fit, The Age Spectrum (Jun 2020)
Where intimacy happens, The Age Spectrum (May 2020)
Jacqui Stockdale is reviving the concept of the muse, Art Guide Australia (Mar/Apr 2020)
Pure Performance: The Glittering Intensity Of V, Swampland Magazine (Apr 2019)
Under the Underground: Audiopollen Social Club, Swampland Magazine (2019)
New music again? On the Clifton Hill Community Music Centre, Swampland Magazine (2017)

Essays

Lindy Lee is keeping faith, Art Guide Australia (Oct 2025)
The Sounds of Love, Felt Journal (2020) (Print only)
Is Art Pop? On Darren Sylvester’s Promises, Meanjin Online (Jun 2019)
Sarah Mary Chadwick: The Case for Melancholia, Swampland Magazine (Jul 2018)
Creative Responses to City of Melbourne Collection: On Public Purse, City of Melbourne (2018)
ART and art (where the first is Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the second follows from the first), un Magazine 11.1 (2017)
The polyphony of polyphonies, un Magazine 10.2 (2016)
One baby to another: twenty-five years of Nevermind, Overland (2016)
“Many things I, I musn’t say”: Approaching the mystery and uncertainty of Xiu Xiu’s “Plays the Music of Twin Peaks”, The Lifted Brow (2016)

Exhibition Essays

Hannah Gartside: It Must Be Love, Tolarno Galleries Melbourne Art Fair (2025)
Sarah Drinan: Becoming Somewhere Else, Amez Yavuz (2025)
Pia Murphy: Garden Gravity, Nicholas Thompson Gallery (2024)
Hannah Gartside: This body is experiencing pleasure, Tolarno Galleries (2023)
Ella Dunn: Vanished Light, Saint Cloche (2023)
Rudi Williams, The National 4, Museum of Contemporary Art (2023)
Georgia Spain: Time is the thing a body moves through, Tolarno Galleries (2022)
Yvette Coppersmith: Presage, Sullivan+Strumpf (2022)
Emily Ferretti: Bent Elbow, Sophie Gannon Gallery (2022)
Elyss McCleary: Chroma/s, Brunswick Temporary (2022)
Eleanor Louise Butt: Resonant iterations, Gallery 9 (2021)
Georgia Mill and Giordano Biondi’s: Facsimile, Seventh Galleries (2017)
Kusum Normoyle: Slow /Dark, Nicholas Projects and Artspace (2016)