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Elizabeth Fullerton
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I have been writing professionally for more than 20 years and passionate about art all my life.

My interest in art spans performance, video, painting, sculpture, sound to the undefinable. Issues of sex, gender, race, the colonial legacy and the climate emergency are a particular focus. I write across a wide range of topics for a variety of publications including The Guardian, The New York Times, Art Monthly, ARTnews and many more. Below is a selected archive of my articles with links to the full texts.

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‘Painting was my final act of defiance’: how a chef from Eritrea wowed the art world after his death
‘Painting was my final act of defiance’: how a chef from Eritrea wowed the art world after his death

Ficre Ghebreyesus, who died in 2012, made vertiginous paintings celebrating family, the diaspora and his own turbulent story.

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Elizabeth FullertonMarch 12, 2025The Guardian
A Sonia Boyce–Lygia Clark Double Bill at Whitechapel Offers an Exhilarating Proposition
A Sonia Boyce–Lygia Clark Double Bill at Whitechapel Offers an Exhilarating Proposition

The two artists may seem an unlikely duo but their work, this double bill of shows argues, shares compelling synergies such as an emphasison touch and play.

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Elizabeth FullertonNovember 8, 2024ARTnews
Profile: Sammy Baloji
Profile: Sammy Baloji

Sammy Baloji finds that the violent legacies of Belgian colonialism in the past continue to haunt the presenting the form of multinational corporate extractivism and exploitation.

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Elizabeth FullertonNovember 1, 2024Art Monthly
Profile: Nil Yalter
Profile: Nil Yalter

A pioneer of both video and feminist art, Nil Yalter (b.1938) has championed marginalised voices for the past five decades.

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Elizabeth FullertonOctober 24, 2024Burlington Contemporary
Interview: Teresita Fernández: ‘Objects have a gravitas that affects your body.'
Interview: Teresita Fernández: ‘Objects have a gravitas that affects your body.'

The award-winning artist is reinventing the way landscapes are depicted in art – not least by pointing out that human bodies are made of the same stuff

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Elizabeth FullertonSeptember 5, 2024The Guardian
Review: Indigenous Histories, KODE Museum, Bergen
Review: Indigenous Histories, KODE Museum, Bergen
Elizabeth FullertonSeptember 1, 2024Art Monthly
Text: Time Trembling: Lenore Tawney's Early Works
Text: Time Trembling: Lenore Tawney's Early Works
Elizabeth FullertonAugust 22, 2024Independent 20th Century fair
Review: Claudia Martínez Garay: Wakchakuna / We Who Share Everything and Nothing
Review: Claudia Martínez Garay: Wakchakuna / We Who Share Everything and Nothing

‘Wakchakuna’ can be seen as Martínez Garay’s own symbolic gesture of restitution.

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Elizabeth FullertonJuly 1, 2024Art Monthly
From Covid tag in Mexico to soccer with no ball in Iraq: Francis Alÿs on his joyous films of children’s games
From Covid tag in Mexico to soccer with no ball in Iraq: Francis Alÿs on his joyous films of children’s games

As he puts his films on display, he talks about the way conkers cross cultures, password games in Ukraine, and whether ‘playing out’ is under threat

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Elizabeth FullertonJune 28, 2024The Guardian
Wild ting: why a chattel house now sits on a manicured Scottish lawn
Wild ting: why a chattel house now sits on a manicured Scottish lawn

Two years in the making, and drawing on themes of healing, the slave trade and even Vikings, the latest show by Alberta Whittle, has taken over a mansion on a holiday isle

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Elizabeth FullertonJune 17, 2024The Guardian
Video Interview: Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir – ‘I am inspired by the underwhelming’
Video Interview: Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir – ‘I am inspired by the underwhelming’
Elizabeth FullertonMay 13, 2024Studio International
Review: Shuvinai Ashoona: When I Draw
Review: Shuvinai Ashoona: When I Draw
Elizabeth FullertonApril 17, 2024Burlington Contemporary
Taking Over the Australia Pavilion, Archie Moore Celebrates 2,400 Generations of First Nations People
Taking Over the Australia Pavilion, Archie Moore Celebrates 2,400 Generations of First Nations People

“It shows survival, despite all the horrible things that happened. We’re still here and continuing our cultural practices,”

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Elizabeth FullertonApril 15, 2024ARTnews
‘It contrasts with the grey British sky!’ Why the Barbican has been wrapped in pink fabric
‘It contrasts with the grey British sky!’ Why the Barbican has been wrapped in pink fabric

“I thought it was quite beautiful because a lot of workers on this building had to chip off the concrete by hand to create the texture. I was trying to respond to that. So I thought, ‘Why not start from the basis of labour and produce everything by hand?’”

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Elizabeth FullertonApril 8, 2024The Guardian
Review: Jane Jin Kaisen, Halmang at esea contemporary, Manchester
Review: Jane Jin Kaisen, Halmang at esea contemporary, Manchester

This exhibition might be described as a collective haunting. The ghosts of dead and living women populate the show, their fates entwined by three films that touch on themes of memory, erasure, war and borders.

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Elizabeth FullertonApril 1, 2024Art Monthly
Video Interview: Gayle Chong Kwan: ‘I’ve made a connection between displays of constructed power and childlike play’
Video Interview: Gayle Chong Kwan: ‘I’ve made a connection between displays of constructed power and childlike play’
Elizabeth FullertonMarch 4, 2024Studio International
Missing Pieces: A Conversation with Gabriel Chaile
Missing Pieces: A Conversation with Gabriel Chaile

I am making enormous sculptures derived from overlooked cultures. It has to do with what we consider important and with refocusing the gaze

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Elizabeth FullertonMarch 1, 2024SCULPTURE MAGAZINE
Interview: Rory Pilgrim
Interview: Rory Pilgrim

Art in this country is expected to be funny, satirical, shocking or clever. But if it gets too personal or doesn’t fall under ‘kitchen sink realism’, then it becomes ‘too close’ for some people.

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Elizabeth FullertonJanuary 5, 2024Burlington Contemporary
Feature: The prisoners confronting their crimes with art
Feature: The prisoners confronting their crimes with art


Dean Kelland has spent almost five years making art with inmates at Europe’s only fully therapeutic jail – with a little help from Elvis and David Bowie

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Elizabeth FullertonDecember 11, 2023The Guardian
Fluid Circulation: A Conversation with Holly Hendry
Fluid Circulation: A Conversation with Holly Hendry
Elizabeth FullertonOctober 30, 2023SCULPTURE MAGAZINE
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