I write mainly about contemporary art, often on artists who deal with issues of gender, sexuality, race or climate crisis in their practice, across painting, sculpture, performance, video. I’m also fascinated by artist makers who don’t make work around identity or a specific issue, who just create because they’re compelled to.

I began my writing career freelancing in Kuwait.

After studying Modern Languages at Oxford University, I spent a year in Kuwait working as a journalist before joining Reuters in London and travelling widely, with foreign postings in Vienna and Mexico. Among the cultural highlights were interviews with Leonora Carrington (over morning tequila), Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, and Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

I left Reuters to specialise in art writing, earning a Masters in Art History from Birkbeck College, University of London. Since then I’ve written on and interviewed a variety of contemporary artists including Frank Bowling, John Akomfrah, Rosie Hastings and Hannah Quinlan, Florence Peake, Wu Tsang, Mikhail Karikis, Lindsay Seers, Ryan Gander, Lubaina Himid, Hew Locke, Cooking Sections, Carolee Schneemann, Faith Ringgold and many more.

In 2013 I was commissioned by Thames and Hudson to write the first independent history of BritArt. The result was Artrage! The Story of the BritArt Revolution, published in 2016. You can read more about the book and its origins by clicking here. Other notable projects have included guest hosting artist and writer Jillian Knipe’s Art Fictions podcast, texts for Phaidon publications African Artists (2021), Great Women Artists (2019), Flying Too Close to the Sun (2018), The Art of the Erotic (2017), Body of Art (2015); essays for the book Kuwait: Arts and Architecture (Kuwait Oriental Press: 1995); a book on the design and architecture of the Arab Organisations Headquarters in Kuwait.