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The Gaze That Hovers shorlisted for the 2021 Nan Shepherd Prize

There I am in 2015, around the time I first started dreaming of writing a book about birds. Six years later, my book-in-progress, The...

"Lockdown Vocabulary" on the Orion blog

What do swans, songbirds, and a culinary herb have to do with the coronavirus in the UK? My short essay, Lockdown Vocabulary, calls...

Forthcoming

I've been particularly excited about the forthcoming Art Souvenir title on Paula Rego for two reasons: because it's the first book in the...

"With bats on our side" at The Animal Gaze Constructed

Thanks to a last-minute invitation by conference organiser Rosemarie McGoldrick, I performed my piece "With bats on our side" at The...

White Studio at Old Paradise Yard

Excited to announce that I've taken on the leasehold and management of the White Studio at Old Paradise Yard in Waterloo. Old Paradise...

Fly-by-Night at Hundred Years Gallery

I was thrilled to participate in Fly-by-Night: A night of bats at Hundred Years Gallery on one of the longest nights of the year, that of...

Dream-whales and deep listening

I first met visual artist Tanja Thorjussen in 2014 through Art in Translation, the international conference on language and the arts that...

Exhibition text for Fixed Points

It was a lifetime and a country ago (2011 in Iceland, to be exact) that I had the pleasure of meeting artist Gústav Geir Bollason and...

Hannah Ryggen and Carl Milles, hot off the press

After having worked for some time as an occasional proofreader for Guðrún Publishing's Art Souvenir series, I was pleased to accept a new...

Eygló Harðardóttir at the Living Art Museum

I was delighted to translate the highly introspective text for Eygló Harðardóttir's solo exhibition Another Space (Annað rými) at the...

Presentation at Living on a Volatile Earth, University of Oxford

It was an honour to present my thesis research at the Living on a Volatile Earth workshop, held on 11 June 2018 at the School of...