Arts writer and editor from London. She has written for AnOther, Plaster, Elephant, Ocula Magazine, and Wallpaper*
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A FEW ARTICLES…
Victor Man, the Anti-Modern Painter Illuminating the Present (Ocula, October 2025)
‘There’s a Big Richness in Nothing’: Tobias Pils on Working with Limitations (Ocula, October 2025)
Peter Doig’s New Exhibition Fuses Painting and Music (AnOther, October 2025)
The Urgent, Adventurous Photography of Lee Miller (AnOther, October 2025)
Frieze Zoologica: A Field Guide to the London Art Fair (Elephant, October 2025)
A Timestamp on an Epochal Scale: Lee Bul’s Seoul Homecoming (Ocula, September 2025)
Ed Ruscha and Ruthie Rogers team up on zingy new cookbook (Wallpaper, September 2025)
Beyond the Fair: How to Art-Detox in Seoul (Elephant, September 2025)
Meet Malak Mattar, the Palestinian artist behind the 'Together for Palestine' concert at London's Wembley Arena (Wallpaper*, September 2025)
Mapping Frank Bowling’s World (Ocula, August 2025)
‘My Story Is About What I Have Not Done’: Isabella Ducrot on Writing (Ocula, August 2025)
Robbie McIntosh’s Vivid Portrait of Neapolitans on the Beach (AnOther, August 2025)
High Season on Hydra with Dakis Joannou (Ocula, July 2025)
A Day at the Seaside with Haroon Mirza (Elephant, July 2025)
A Canal Odyssey: Charting London Gallery Weekend by Boat (Elephant, June 2025)
Cary Kwok swaps hardcore for heartache (Plaster, June 2025)
He never met Paul Thek, but Kenny Schachter would’ve been happy just to smell him (Plaster, June 2025)
The Bezos-Sánchez Wedding Gift Guide You Didn’t Know You Needed (Elephant, June 2025)
House of Braka (Ocula, May 2025)
Ellie Rines’s Game Plan for New York Art Week (Elephant, May 2025)
In conversation with Maurizio Cattelan’s conscience (Plaster, April 2025)
Tim Stoner Paints at His Own Pace (Ocula, March 2025)
Slurp, See, and Shop Hong Kong Like Cary Kwok (Elephant, March (2025)
Santiago Gómez Opens up the Heavenly World of Mexico’s Casa Wabi (Ocula, February 2025)
Hernan Bas: ‘Get Off South Beach and Head to the Everglades’ (Ocula, December 2024)
Lynne Drexler on Monhegan Island (Ocula, November 2024)
Francesco Clemente: New Bar, New Show, New York (Ocula, November 2024)
A Sunday Afternoon with Andrew Cranston at the Musée D’Orsay (Ocula, October 2024)
Kim Yun Shin in the Studio (Ocula, October 2024)
Living with Lee Miller (Ocula, October 2024)
Donna Huddleston Takes the Stage at White Cube (Ocula, September 2024)
Rinus Van de Velde Dreams Big (Ocula, September 2024)
On Filicudi, the World Stopped in the Sixties (Ocula, August 2024)
Joanna Moorhead on the Rebel Visionary Leonora Carrington (Ocula, July 2024)
Paintings Give Lorna Robertson Somewhere to Go (Ocula, July 2024)
Hydra: An Aegean Paradise for the Most Abstract of Thinkers (Ocula, July 2024)
Shara Hughes in the Studio (Ocula, June 2024)
Josh Smith: ‘My life is soup. I just eat it and spit it out’ (Ocula, May 2024)
The World According to Chloe Wise (Ocula, May 2024)
Matthew Krishanu in the Studio (Ocula, April 2024)
It’s Peter Hujar’s Day (Ocula, April 2024)
Juliet Bingham on Yoko Ono’s Lifetime of Imagining (Ocula, February 2024)
Gabriel Orozco: The Mercurial Maestro of Mexico (Ocula, February 2024)
Gallerist José Kuri on Keeping Faith in Mexico City (Ocula, February 2024)
Ruthie Rogers on Ruscha, Podcasting, and The River Cafe (Ocula, December 2023)
Nicholas Cullinan on Steering the National Portrait Gallery (Ocula, November 2023)
Margot Henderson on Feeding London’s YBAs (Ocula, September 2023)
Rachel Whiteread and Mary Stephenson Bear Witness to the Overlooked (Ocula, February 2023)