WRITINGS
Promenade through plaster heritages (2026)
A series of online essays tracing my doctoral research across the Glasgow School of Art’s plaster cast collection. Moving between contemporary art, digital reproductions, and collection histories, these texts reflect on the afterlives of copies and the role of reproductions in shaping cultural memory.
Published online, on the website of GSA’s Archives and Collections.
The contact of an absence (2025)
Commissioned in response to Dane Mitchell’s exhibition Archive of Dust, Room 18 at Haydens, Naarm / Melbourne. The text engages with Mitchell's ongoing research around questions of absence, traces, and the potentialities of dust to tell different stories about cultural heritage held in encyclopaedic museums.
Monuments for the Present (2024)
Printed on tracing paper, this publication traces the conversations and process of co-creation behind Monuments for the Present. Developed with members of the Maryhill Integration Network Art Group, it reflects on contemporary understandings of monuments as sites of remembrance, transmission, and collective reflection.
Flâneurs. Copies, appropriations, citations from the collection of the Centre national des arts plastiques (2023)
Structured as an imaginary museum, Flâneurs proposes an alternative reading of the CNAP collection through encounters between nineteenth-century painted copies and contemporary appropriations. Drawing on the work of André Malraux and Aby Warburg, it explores how reproductions can generate new art-historical narratives. The publication includes interviews with Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Aurélien Mole, and Matthew Darbyshire.
Originally published in French as Les Flâneuses. Copies, citations, appropriations dans la collection du Centre national des arts plastiques (2021).
Decoding the Gorbals’ Girl With Rucksack statue (2022)
Written for the South Glasgow Heritage Environment Trust (SGHET), this text examines Kenny Hunter’s Untitled. Girl With Rucksack (2004) as a lens through which to explore the histories of migration, displacement, and regeneration that have shaped Glasgow’s Gorbals district.
L'intrigue se cherche dans le dénouement de son nœud (2018)
Published alongside the exhibition of the same title, this publication traces the year-long dialogue with artists Doriane Souilhol and Douglas Morland that informed the development of the exhibition and the production of new works.
Raoul Reynolds: A Retrospective (2018)
Produced in conjunction with the exhibition Raoul Reynolds: A Retrospective, this bilingual publication expands the project through newly commissioned essays by Jenny Brownrigg, Guillaume Condello, Timothée Chaillou, Anna Dezeuze, and Éric Mangion.
Between Frankenstein and Übermensch (2016)
Commissioned by Dürst Britt & Mayhew for Sybren Renema’s presentation at Artissima, Turin, this conversation explores the influence of Romanticism, literature, and music on the artist’s practice and the works presented in the exhibition.
East End Transmissions (2014)
Published alongside the exhibition, this publication gathers memories, stories, and reflections from Glasgow’s East End, bringing together contributions from local residents, artists, and researchers at a moment of significant urban transformation.
Weaving the spaces we still call home (2014)
Co-written with Giulia Lamoni and published in FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur (#57), this essay takes the form of an imaginary exhibition to explore the relationships between textiles, gender, place, home, and belonging in contemporary artistic practices.