I write mainly about contemporary art, often on artists who deal with issues of gender, sexuality, race or climate crisis in their practice, across painting, sculpture, performance, video. I’m also fascinated by artist makers who don’t make work around identity or a specific issue, who just create because they’re compelled to.

As a foreign correspondent in Mexico I interviewed Leonora Carrington.

After studying Modern Languages at Oxford University, I began my freelance writing in Kuwait, then joined Reuters in London, with foreign postings in Vienna and Mexico. Among the cultural highlights were interviews with Leonora Carrington (over morning tequila), Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, and Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

I left Reuters to take a Masters in Art History from Birkbeck College, University of London, where I am now pursuing a PhD on Polyphonic Practices in Contemporary Art. I’ve written on and interviewed a variety of contemporary artists including Frank Bowling, Carolee Schneemann, Faith Ringgold, Isaac Julien, John Akomfrah, Rosie Hastings & Hannah Quinlan, Florence Peake, Wu Tsang, Mikhail Karikis, Lindsay Seers, Matthew Krishanu, Ryan Gander, Mahmoud Khaled, Hew Locke, Flo Brooks, Cooking Sections and more.

In 2013 I was commissioned by Thames and Hudson to write the first independent history of BritArt. The result was Artrage! The Story of the BritArt Revolution, published in 2016. You can read more about the book and its origins by clicking here. Other notable projects have included guest hosting artist and writer Jillian Knipe’s Art Fictions podcast, texts for Phaidon publications African Artists (2021), Great Women Artists (2019), Flying Too Close to the Sun (2018), The Art of the Erotic (2017), Body of Art (2015); essays for the book Kuwait: Arts and Architecture (Kuwait Oriental Press: 1995); a book on the design and architecture of the Arab Organisations Headquarters in Kuwait.