Writing

Print & online

Apollo Magazine

Full list of pieces here, including Queen Mary’s collecting, David Garrick, Louis Wain, Stonehenge and model villages.

The Art Newspaper

‘Bring on Pierrot, the clumsy clown’, Review of Marika Takanishi Knowles’s Pierrot and his World, The Art Newspaper, 1 May 2024 and online

‘Diamond-buttoned king who left a huge cultural legacy’ [Review of Tim Planning, Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco], The Art Newspaper, February 2025

ArtUK

Full list here, including the art of expressions and eighteenth-century actresses.

Country Life

‘Life in Miniature: the enduring charm of the model village’, Country Life, print 16 April 2025, and online.

Literary Review

Such Sweet Sorrow [Review of Sophie Duncan, Searching for Juliet], The Literary Review

‘A Tale of Two Artists’, [Review of Franny Moyle, Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun: The Entwined Lives of Two Great Eighteenth-Century Women Artists, The Literary Review

The Public Domain Review

Gottfried Mind: The Raphael of Cats’, The Public Domain Review, 11 September 2024

Other

‘A Neoliberal’s Guide to the Heart’, an exploration of the films of Richard Curtis, The Rumpus, February 2018.

‘Noli Me Tangere’, The Critical Flame, January-February 2018.

‘Country Shade and Lemonade: The Beach Boys in the Fête Galante’, The Inkling, March 2013.

Journal articles

‘“The Idiot as Artist”: The Fantasy Boats of James Henry Pullen’, Art History, 43:5 (November 2020), pp.928-952.

‘John Thomson, Archibald Grant, and Hogarth’s “Before” and “After”’, The Burlington Magazine, 161: 1393 (April 2019), pp.300-307.

Chapters

‘All England in Warm Sepia’: Queen Mary and the Church of the Holy Trinity. In Sally Barnden, Gordon McMullan, Kate Retford and Kirsten Tambling (eds.), Shakespeare’s Afterlife in the Royal Collection: Dynasty, Ideology and National Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025)

‘The Ladies in Waiting: “The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit”’. In Stuart Bell (ed.), Moving Impressions: Essays on Art and Experience (London: The 87 Press, 2021), pp. 125-132.

Other

In 2013, I was co-editor (with Laura Seymour) of the poetry and fiction anthology Lines Underwater, re-imagining mermaids for the twenty-first century. You can buy a copy here.