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Thanks for visiting my website. I'm a writer and a critic. I write about art and other topics.
We often hear about the importance of critical thinking. I care more about its opposite. I believe in criticism that thinks.
Texts
Robert O'Connor – Iconotropy. Bett Gallery, Hobart, 2021.
Alan Young – New Works. Colville Gallery, Hobart, 2018.
‘Miraculations of the Void.’ Art and Australia Magazine #4 (55.1), 2018.
Talks
MADONNAGALÁS, Brisbane Hotel, Hobart, 2020.
Metaphysics of a Housing Crisis, Brisbane Hotel, Hobart, 2019.
Discordance of the Male Gaze, with Llewellyn Negrin, Brisbane Hotel, Hobart, 2019.
Edgar Degas : Waiting, State Cinema, Hobart, 2019.
Van Gogh's Grasshopper, State Cinema, Hobart, 2019.
Painting Without Lines, State Cinema, Hobart, 2018.
What Does Expressionism Express? State Cinema, Hobart, 2018.
Cézanne's Card Players, State Cinema, Hobart, 2018.
Dematerialisation, Art Forum, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 2018.
Canaletto in England, State Cinema, Hobart, 2018.
Alan Young : Am I A House? Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 2018.
Rhythm and Turbulence, State Cinema, Hobart, 2018.
Caravaggio : Blue Soul, Red Blood, State Cinema, Hobart, 2018.
What Was Superflat? Art Forum, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 2017.
The Rondanini Pietá, State Cinema, Hobart, 2017.
EPIC FAIL : Brecht & Wile E. Coyote, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart, 2017.
Why Do People Paint Flowers? State Cinema, Hobart, 2017.
The Möbius Dress, Visual Bulk, Hobart, 2016.
Monet's Repetitions, State Cinema, Hobart, 2016.
Hieronymus Bosch's Acosmic Imagination, State Cinema, Hobart, 2016.
Cathedral Semiotics, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 2016.
…What Makes You Beautiful, Art Forum, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 2015.
