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About

I’m a freelance arts journalist and editor, and a contributing editor at the Arts Society Magazine. I was previously senior editor at Apollo magazine, and before that, deputy editor at Crafts, a biannual magazine published by the Crafts Council.

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My writing has appeared in ArtReview, ApolloCeramic Review, Dazed, frieze, Hyperallergic, The Observer Magazine, The Guardian, The Financial Times, the TLS, Vice and World of Interiors, among others. I’ve also written essays for Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips.

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In 2022, I published my first book, Lucie Rie, an introductory overview of the potter’s life and work for Eiderdown Books’ Modern Women Artists series. In early 2026, I co-curated an exhibition featuring Rie for Frestonian Gallery: Crossings: Hans Coper, Sam Herman, Lucie Rie & Eduardo Paolozzi (11 February–21 March). My next book is out in 2027. 

I work as an editor, copy-editor and proofreader on a variety of projects for artists, academics and institutions – most recently, the exhibition catalogue for Relative Ties: Mabel Nicholson, Nancy Nicholson, EQ Nicholson and Louisa Creed at the Women’s Art Collection, Cambridge.

 

I also chair panel discussions and give talks. Past clients include the Hepworth Wakefield, the Hayward Gallery, Kettle’s Yard, Collect art fair, Masterpiece LondonMaximillian William Gallery and Canopy Collections.

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