Welcome to my website

I'm Elizabeth Fullerton and write mainly about art and culture for North American and British publications.

Welcome to my website! I’m an art writer and author of Artrage! The Story of the BritArt Revolution (Thames & Hudson: 2016, 2021). I've contributed to various books on art, most recently Latin American Artists (2023), African Artists (2021), Great Women Artists (2019), Flying Too Close to the Sun (2018), The Art of the Erotic (2017) and Body of Art (2015) (all Phaidon).

I write regularly for numerous publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Art in America, Art Quarterly, Sculpture and Burlington Contemporary and am working on a PhD in polyphonic art practices.

I also co- host my friend, artist Jillian Knipe’s brilliant podcast Art Fictions, which invites an artist each episode to choose a book, using that as a lens to discuss their practice. I’ve had many fantastic guests including Lindsay Seers (on Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban), Florence Peake (discussing Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues) and Rory Pilgrim (Iris Murdoch’s The Bell). It’s available on all major podcast platforms. Check it out! https://artfictions.podbean.com

On this website you can access a selection of my articles and book extracts. The images are by some of the artists whose work I follow.

I’m always open to new opportunities. Please do get in touch to discuss media appearances, talks, catalogue essays etc.

"Delves into the ego, brilliance, spats and scandals of Frieze"

BBC Culture

The Young British Artists (YBAs) stormed on to the contemporary art scene in 1988 with their attention-grabbing, ironic art. They exploded art-world conventions with brazen disdain. Dismissed as trivial gimmickry and praised for its witty energy, their art made a mark both on the art scene and on public consciousness that continues to reverberate today.

Now, almost three decades after they emerged, Artrage! tells the story of the YBAs with the benefit of perspective, chronicling the group’s rise to prominence from the landmark show ‘Frieze’ curated by Damien Hirst, through the heyday of the 1990s and the notorious ‘Sensation’ exhibition, to the Momart fire of 2004 that seemed to symbolize the group’s fading from centre stage.