Production & associate editor @prospect_uk
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Joined July 2010
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The RA’s new exhibition wants us to consider Richard Dadd as an artist, not a psychiatric patient and killer. But you can’t simply separate the work from its circumstances, argues @dfmcallister
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A new exhibition of the artist Richard Dadd’s work is a revelation. @dfmcallister asks: could he have produced these paintings without his institutionalisation?
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Reviews: Jack Barron on Seamus Heaney (@FaberBooks); @dfmcallister on The Complete C Comics by Joe Brainard; Paul Hammond on The Land of Sweet Forever by Harper Lee (@HutchHeinemann); and @GuyStagg on The Silver Book by Olivia Laing.
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My latest for @prospect_uk, on @Tate's survey of Ithell Colquhoun, one of this year's highlights on the exhibition calendar:
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Architect Annabelle Selldorf responds to critics of her redesign of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing.
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Got a piece in this... now with added tote !
There are still a few copies of the April / May issue left. With our new issue and tote bag bundle, you can save 20% on the cost of our current issue and the bespoke TLM tote.
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My latest for @prospect_uk – on assessing Jack Vettriano's legacy as perhaps one of the best bad artists there ever was:
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Things afoot!
Featuring: Sara Ahmad on the 7/7 bombings, twenty years on; @kasralang on Joseph Conrad and Hisham Matar; @helenarambles on Mary Toft and ‘micro-histories’; @dfmcallister on modes of reading; and @stephenson_pj on Paris and Georges Perec.
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My latest for the New Humanist – inside this (extremely worth seeing) show of early digital art at the Tate!
✨ New online:
@dfmcallister takes us into the ether as we journey through the history of digital art at the Tate
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More than deserved!
Congratulations to @LesFugitives for being long listed for the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses
For the latest issue of @prospect_uk I spoke to Ai Weiwei about what he's doing with 30 tonnes of buttons, the importance of privacy for art-making and why he thinks artificial intelligence will never supplant human creativity
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Going in strong with my first ever starred book review here
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Super excited to contribute to
@_TheLondoner – and to shed light on the London of this extremely underrated group of 20th-century artists !
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My Halloween treat to you… the folk horror revival, with Andrew Michael Hurley, @mjpcuervo of Hellebore, Steve Patterson of the Falmouth Museum of Magic & Folklore, and Anna and Des from Leeds, who like to wear animal masks and watch human sacrifice…
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Managed to keep myself to just one pubic-related pun for this feature on the intimitable @thewhitepube, in the latest @prospect_uk
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Within the space of a year, Westminster council spent over £28m on temporary accommodation. Extraordinary expose here on one of the most scandalous systems in local government:
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Stop what you're doing right now because this is extremely important: I, too, have written about Van Gogh
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📚@pghoskin on @doctor_oxford’s STORY OF A HEART
📚@dfmcallister on Sue Prideaux’s WILD THING
📚@pghoskin on @sarahrainsford’s GOODBYE TO RUSSIA
📚@HenryEOliver on @DanaGioiaPoet’s POETRY AS ENCHANTMENT
📚@LucyScholes on @LizStrout’s TELL ME EVERYTHING
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For our “One painting at a time” series, painter Mark Connolly examines James Ensor’s magnum opus, which asks: “what if Christ’s entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday happened in Belgium?”
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