Writings

Writing, like making and researching, is for me an integral part of a wider learning and reflective practice. As such, it remains an independent endeavour.

I am available for commissions, including articles, essays, reviews and catalogue contributions.

"STATEMENT PIECE", text piece for METALLOphone 2024, International Biennial of Jewellery and Metal Art, Vilnius, Lithuania (October 2024)

KONTRAPUNKT No.2 - PERMISSION TO SPEAK, book main texts and lead editing (March 2024)

LE NOEUD REVU - THE KNOT REVIEWED, exhibition text, Parcours Bijoux, Paris, France (October 2023)

KONTRAPUNKT COLLECTIVE - self-interview, Current Obsession online (September 2022)

KONTRAPUNKT - catalogue text for Kontrapunkt exhibition, Budapest Jewelry Week, Hungary (September 2022)

BETWEEN MICROCOSMOS AND MACROCOSMOS: THE ARTIST'S CHOICE FROM THE PERSONAL TO THE COLLECTIVE - lecture at Amber Trip XIX, Vilnius, Lithuania (March 2023)

A LEAP INTO NOTHINGNESS, AND THE FREEDOM OF POSSIBILITY: ART AS THINKING PRAXIS - lecture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw, Poland (January 2023)

THE HIDDEN BURDEN OF A "PERSONAL OBJECT": A LINGUISTIC DIGRESSION - opening lecture at Sperk Stret conference, Bratislava (September 2022)

A UNIVERSE IN A BOOK - A Review of Manfred Bischoff: Ding Dong (September 2022)

A CALL TO ART, or "THE TURBULENCE OF A MORE ORIGINARY QUESTIONING' - main catalogue essay in Cosmos Lem Jewellery exhibition catalogue (March 2022)

INTIMATE REVOLT AND THE NEED TO CREATE DANGEROUSLY (live recording) - keynote lecture for Nuda Vita III Conference (March 2021)

INTIMATE REVOLT AND THE NEED TO CREATE DANGEROUSLY (text) - in Nuda Vita III (March 2021)

INTIMATE REVOLT FOR A UNIVERSAL POLIS - in Nuda Vita II (March 2020)

MUNICH JEWELLERY WEEK 2020: THE SCHOOL REPORT - in Arts Thread (April 2020)

COLLECTIVE ACTION - in JOYA Barcelona Art Jewellery & Objects catalogue (October 2019)

COLLECTIVE ACTION AT JOYA BARCELONA 2019 - in Klimt02 (September 2019)

RUUDT PETERS: BRON/SOURCE. A book review - in Klimt02 (June 2019)

IN SEARCH OF THE FOUND - catalogue for the eponymous exhibition presented and curated as part of 'Adorned Spaces' at the 48th SNAG Conference, Chicago, 22-25 May 2019

JEWELLERY IN THE AGE OF CATACLYSM. Dauvit Alexander and Dan Russell: A Waste Land (Vittoria Street Gallery, Birmingham, and Sun Pier Gallery, Chatham) - in Klimt02 (May 2019)

RUUDT PETERS: BRON/SOURCE - in Findings 68, Spring 2019

JEWELLERY IN THE AGE OF CATACLYSM. Dauvit Alexander and Dan Russell: A Waste Land (Vittoria Street Gallery, Birmingham, and Sun Pier Gallery, Chatham) - in Findings 68, Spring 2019

ARE YOU READY TO WEAR IT? - in Findings 68, Spring 2019

HALL OF MIRRORS: ON JOURNEYING, VIEWING, AND THE CRITICAL LEGACY OF ENCOUNTERS. Essay about the exhibition Te Ao Hurihuri/Ever Changing World - in Klimt02 (April 2019)

HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY, BOB! A personal homage to Robert Ebendorf - in Findings 67, Autumn 2018

THE MAKING ENIGMA, or THE TALE OF BEING HUMAN - in Monumentality / Fragility, catalogue for the European Prize for Applied Arts, published by WCC-BF / BeCraft (2018)

HOLY SCHMUCK! Reflections on Munich Jewellery Week - in Findings 66, Spring 2018

FORGING NEW JEWELLERY HISTORIES: Symposia at Goldmiths' Hall and V&A (London) focusing on new historical and contemporary research - in Findings 66, Spring 2018

"INITIATION" A.I.R. PROGRAMME (Athens) - Part 1: Lifting the veil - in Findings 65, Autumn 2017

JORGE MANILLA: ABRUPTIONS (Kunstgiesserei, Munich Jewellery Week 2017) - in Findings 65, Autumn 2017

TINCAL LAB: PORTO'S NEW SPACE FOR CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY - in Findings 64, Spring 2017

AN ENAMELLING ADVENTURE - in Findings 64, Spring 2017

INSPIRING THE FUTURE interview feature - in Inspiring the Future blog, May 2017

RESIDENCY AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE AT RAVSTEDHUS - in Guild of Enamellers (UK) magazine, Autumn 2016

ALICE ANDERSON (Wellcome Collection, London) - in Findings 62, Spring 2016

INSPIRING THE FUTURE: CASE STUDY - in Crafts Council (UK) website, March 2016

KEVIN COATES: A BESTIARY OF JEWELS and In Conversation with Prof. Cook (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) - in Findings 58, Spring 2014

Barbara Christie: Light Seeping Through Windows (Contemporary Applied Arts, London) & Nora Fok: Cloud Nylon (Lesley Craze, London) - in Young British Jewellers blog (ceased), March 2013