Public Talks & Lectures

2013 | Spring Rain | Spike Island, Bristol | In Conversation with John Slyce

Knock, Knock | Jerwood Gallery, Hastings | In Conversation with Stephen Buckley

2012 | Feet & Hinges | Artists Lecture | Architectural Association, Bedford Square | 27th January | 6.30pm | Video»

2011 | Structure & Material: Claire Barclay, Becky Beasley, Karla Black | Arts Council Collection touring exhibition | Interview

Structure & Material - Spike Island, Bristol | Conversation with Laura Mclean-Ferris

Structure & Material - New Art Gallery, Walsall | Conversation with Claire Barclay

2010 | 8th May 1904, Kingston | Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston | Conversation with John Slyce

 

Published Essays & Other Writing

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2013
         -Spring Rain
| Artists monograph | with texts by the artist, Parveen Adams, Lawrence Sterne, Bermard Malamud | 500 copies |  

          Published by Spike Island, Leeds City Art Gallery, Laura Bartlett Gallery and Francesca Minini Gallery | April 2013

2012

- Herbstfreude (Sedum Autumn Joy) | Artist's writing contribution to Cadavere Quotidiano (November) | Produced by Francesco Pedraglio & Paul Becker

- The Commonplace | Fulcrum at The Venice Biennale | http://fulcrum.aaschool.ac.uk

- Art Review | Special Design supplement project: the first English-language translation of Carlo Mollino’s 1949 essay ‘Utopia and Interiors’, initiated and with annotations by Becky Beasley | April 2012 issue | Link»
- The Inhabitable Inhospitable Object | Crude Metaphors, Hot Shoe | March 2012

2010

- Gnommero - Artist’s writings pamphlet, Concieved and published by Sarah Tripp - Launched February 26th, CCA, Glasgow

2009

-After the Joy | 2HB | CCA, Glasgow | Artist's Writing Journal | Volume 2 | March 2009
-Enigma No. 1 | Kaleidoscope | Issue 1 | Milan | www.thekaleidoscope.eu

2008

-The Sitters: The Necessities of Verticality and The Absurd in Life: The Work of Ricardo Alcaide | Hotshoe Vol. 156

-The Man Without References | Bedeutung | Issue 2 | Essay and Artist's pages | Autumn 08| www.bedeutung.co.uk

-Nowhere is here | Drawing Room, London (Touring) | Commissioned catalogue essay

2007

-The Man Without References; Royal College of Art (Fine Art Photography Department) commissioned essay for the publication, Reference: A Book | Link»

-No Foreign Matter Unconsumed: Eccentric Work in the Time of Kate Atkin, commissioned essay to coincide with Atkin's solo exhibition at Museum 52, London »download PDF

2006

-Ticklish Spots and Weak Spots | Hotshoe (Crude Metaphors) | On the work of Ricardo Alcaide

-Letter to the Sighted (Part 1): The Part of Light forthcoming essay for Hotshoe's Crude Metaphors on Isidro Ramirez

-I’m Too Dead to Tell You:  Withdrawing Rooms and other Breathing Spaces : On the work of Axel Antas; catalogue essay for the solo exhibition at Galeria Heino, Finland, November 2005.

2005

-The Sea, Dreamt, Han Sunil, text Becky Beasley, Artists Book by photographer Han Sunil

-Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning in upon itself: On the work of Thomas Kellner; Crude Metaphors commission for HotShoe Magazine

-Chemical Encounters: Space Over Time in the Fragments of Nigel Green’s Last Trip : Exhibition review for SOUCRE Journal of Photography Fall 2005 »Download unedited version

-The Sitters: The Necessities of Verticality and The Absurd in Life: The Work of Ricardo Alcaide Platform 25 commissioned essay on the work of the South American photographer »dowload pdf

-Intimating Immensity Essay commissioned by Moth House for HOTSHOE 2005

2004

-Parables of Death and Technology | Essay commissioned by Moth House for Hotshoe Photography Magazine

2003

-How to Stay Hungry; An Interview with Hannah Collins, Interview & Publication, Grey Area Books, London (Contact greyareabooks@yahoo.co.uk to purchase one of the remaining 50 copies for £5)

-When I create pain I create beauty: A letter to a Young Poet, catalogue essay for Joe Duggan solo exhibition at Hirschl Contemporary Art, London, » download PDF

-The Adventures of Photographers; Two Impromptu Dialogues, 2002: Conceived and edited series of two discussions between RCA Photography Department students, published as part of a graduating publication (copies available from RCA) »RCA link  »Design link

2000-02

-Conceived and wrote all press release material for RCA photography dept. during my MA

-I Once Played the Saddest Game of Peek-a-Boo in a Crooked House, 2001, Exhibition catalogue essay for Edgar Martins

1993-1999

-Inventory Journal 1999/2000, text piece, ‘Measurement of Prolifixity’

-Words & Pictures, Limited edition artists multiples box ed. by Ian Pollard & Jane Forsyth, 1998

-Published scape, a limited edition (100 copies) books of the artist's prose poems (OOP), 1997   »view book cover

-From 1993-99 I produced a series of small home-made books of short fictions in editions of 12   which I distributed amidst a small circle of friends.

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