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Saskia Beudel

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    • A Country in Mind
    • Curating Sydney
    • Borrowed Eyes
  • essays
    • Plastic Futures, Virginia Quarterly Review
    • Bodies of Stone, Bianca Hester Lithic Bodies
    • Review of Handmade Universe in The Saturday Paper
    • Review of Steve Morton's Australian Deserts, ABR
    • Review-essay Site & Sound: Sonic Art as Ecological Practice
    • The Exploitation of Casual Workers in the University Sector
    • Review of Judy Watson & Yhonnie Scarce, TarraWarra Museum of Art
    • Review of John Blay's Wild Nature
    • Living with the Anthropocene
    • 'Walking' in HEAT archive
    • Going Under: Robert Macfarlane's Underland
    • Amanda Marburg profile
    • Essay in The Conversation
    • Review of Westerly Magazine 62.2
    • Fossils in the City
    • Cycling the City
    • The Slow Violence of Incarceration
    • Walking (Best Australian Essays)
    • Abandoned Objects
    • Buffel Grass: An Augmented Landscape
    • Desert Grasslands
    • Ground Glass (The Iowa Review)
    • City of Skies
    • View from Yuendumu mining store
    • Kim Mahood's Evolving Geographies
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    • A New Science
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You can find examples of my latest publications, reviews and work-in-progress here.

Featured posts:

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Feb 14, 2026
Plastic Futures in Virginia Quarterly Review
Feb 14, 2026
Feb 14, 2026
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Sep 11, 2025
My review of Quentin Sprague's What Artists See
Sep 11, 2025
Sep 11, 2025
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Sep 28, 2024
Bodies of Stone, essay for Bianca Hester's Lithic Bodies exhibition, UNSW Galleries
Sep 28, 2024
Sep 28, 2024
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Jul 18, 2023
My review of Nan Goldin's 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency'
Jul 18, 2023
Jul 18, 2023
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Jun 22, 2023
Review of Tony Tuckson exhibition
Jun 22, 2023
Jun 22, 2023
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Feb 21, 2023
Essay in new book Fieldwork for Future Ecologies
Feb 21, 2023
Feb 21, 2023
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Nov 15, 2022
The 'living humanities' published in TEXT Journal
Nov 15, 2022
Nov 15, 2022
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Sep 14, 2022
Thrilled to receive Copyright Agency fellowship
Sep 14, 2022
Sep 14, 2022
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Sep 8, 2022
'Walking' essay posted in HEAT archive
Sep 8, 2022
Sep 8, 2022
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Jul 26, 2022
Review of Handmade Universe in The Saturday Paper
Jul 26, 2022
Jul 26, 2022

Plastic Futures in Virginia Quarterly Review

February 14, 2026

Delighted to publish this essay in VQR on Mandy Barker’s photographs contending with the plight of shearwaters, birds that mistakenly feed on plastic fragments floating in the ocean.

My review of Quentin Sprague's What Artists See →
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