Eight Variants of Tactical Absurdity in (Post)Conceptual Art: An Overperformance of Typological Exactitude included as chapter in book Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art, edited by Katherine Guinness and Charlotte Kent, and published by Intellect books.
Exposition A to Z: Visualising Every Word in the Dictionary in Alphabetical Order published in peer-reviewed journal VIS: Nordic Journal for Artistic Research. Edited by Serge von Arx and Eliot Moleba, VIS #8 brings together seven expositions under the theme “rules and alternatives” in order to ‘question and dissolve the gap between rules and alternatives by fusing, obliterating and subverting that dichotomy.’
Doctoral thesis The Use of Tactical Absurdity in (Post‑)Conceptual Art Practice, written as part of practice-based PhD research project at Winchester School of Art/University of Southampton.
Essay Doing Things Alphabetically: Sartre’s Autodidact and Tactically Absurd Practice published in peer-reviewed journal Writing Visual Culture, Volume 9, ‘Artists and the Philosophers We Love,’ edited by Alana Jelinek.
Essay Searching for the Perfect Welsh Mountain: A Performance of Tactical Absurdity published in peer-reviewed journal Performance Research, Volume 24, Issue 2, ‘On Mountains,’ guest edited by Jonathan Pitches and David Shearing.
Exhibition text for solo exhibition A to Z: The First Seven Years at Gallery Oldham, Manchester, UK.
Exhibition text for Tim Greaves exhibition Roses Like Manure, Roses Like Manure at Leslie Gallery, Berlin.
Response to comments left by visitors to Searching for the Welsh Landscape exhibition at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, written as part of PhD research.
Text written for performance event Punctuation Marks in an Eternal Sentence: The Show at Alfred Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel in 2017
Exploration of the formal, methodological, and theoretical implications of an alignment of my practice with the term “conceptual art”, written for PhD research.
Interview by curator Matteo Bittanti about absurdity, humour, and the video I’ve Always Wanted to Travel Across America, which was included in the exhibition Travelogue at Palazzo Ducali in Mantua, Italy. Published 7 Sep 2016 on the project website, Travelogue.
Discussion about humour in art with Mel Brimfield and Anthony Shapland, commissioned by g39 Gallery, Cardiff for their 2013 publication It Was Never Going to be Straightforward.
Blog written during residency at Est-Nord-Est in Quebec, Canada, describing a series of walks in and around the village of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli. Beginning as a spontaneous and open-ended exploration of the environment, the narrative becomes more and more fixated on the psychological state of boredom, before finally resolving into a paradoxical pursuit of uninteresting experience. The blog gave rise to the installation The Museum of Uninteresting Experience and subsequent performance A Curiously Unremarkable Journey.
Exhibition guide featuring texts about 25 artists included in curatorial project Ha Ha Road at Quad gallery, Derby in 2011 and Oriel Mostyn gallery, Llandudno in 2011-12; texts co-written with Anna-Sophie Springer.
Exhibition text for Seecum Cheung exhibition Alphabet at Apiary Studios, London.
Text documenting durational performance The Painting, based on the act of visiting the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin every Thursday evening for six months in order to look at the same, single painting (the identity of which is never disclosed). The text has also been delivered in the form of a performative slide lecture at Kunstraum Richard Sorge, Berlin.
Text written for publication accompanying exhibition Nude as the News at 91mQ Art Project Space and Kunstraum Richard Sorge, Berlin, edited by Sunshine Wong.
Blog written during residency at Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Germany, describing the daily activity of visiting the same, largely unchanging area of landscape. Initially motivated by a sense of novelty at discovering a new environment, the activity gradually loses all sense of purpose as interest in the location wanes. A series of bizarre and arbitrary actions performed within the moorland are accompanied by increasingly desperate attempts to project meaning into them. An edited version of the blog provides the script to the video Being Somewhere.
Interview about residency project How to Live by Melanie Zagrean & Pierre Wolter, in catalogue Dave Ball: How to Live, published by Galerie Art Claims Impulse, Berlin.
Review of video screening and panel discussion event Rational Review of 2007 at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, London; published in a-n magazine, Mar 2008.
Dissertation for MA in Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Essay for MA in Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Essay for MA in Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Review of exhibition Thomas Demand at Serpentine Gallery, London; unpublished.
Review of exhibition Ugo Rondinone: Zero Built a Nest in My Navel at Whitechapel Gallery, London; published in Dogmanet magazine, Feb 2006.
Review of exhibition Francis Alÿs: Seven Walks at Artangel at 21 Portman Square & National Portrait Gallery, London; published in Dogmanet magazine, Nov 2005.
Review of exhibition Tina Keane: Le Jardin at Sketch, London; published in Dogmanet magazine, Sep 2005.
Review of exhibition Open Systems: Rethinking Art c. 1970 at Tate Modern, London; published in Dogmanet magazine, Aug 2005.
Review of exhibition James Ireland: This is a Test at Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; published in Dogmanet magazine, Jul 2005.
Review of exhibition George Shaw: Ash Wednesday at Wilkinson Gallery, London; published in Dogmanet magazine, Jun 2005.
Review of exhibition Becks Futures 2005 at ICA, London; published in Dogmanet magazine, May 2005.