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    • Review of Quentin Sprague, What Artists See
    • Review of Nan Goldin, NGA
    • Bodies of Stone, Bianca Hester Lithic Bodies
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    • 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, KYD
    • 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
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    • The Slow Violence of Incarceration
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You can find examples of my latest publications, reviews and work-in-progress here.

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August 15, 2026
Peaking reviewed in Australian Book Review
August 15, 2026
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August 15, 2026
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August 15, 2026
Peaking reviewed in The Saturday Paper
August 15, 2026
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August 15, 2026
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August 15, 2026
My review of Clara Brack's The Secret Landscapes
August 15, 2026
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August 15, 2026
Arthur Boyd: Tapestries
August 15, 2026
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August 15, 2026
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February 14, 2026
Plastic Futures in Virginia Quarterly Review
February 14, 2026
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September 11, 2025
My review of Quentin Sprague's What Artists See
September 11, 2025
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September 11, 2025
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September 28, 2024
Bodies of Stone, essay for Bianca Hester's Lithic Bodies exhibition, UNSW Galleries
September 28, 2024
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September 28, 2024
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July 18, 2023
My review of Nan Goldin's 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency'
July 18, 2023
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July 18, 2023
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June 22, 2023
Review of Tony Tuckson exhibition
June 22, 2023
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June 22, 2023
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February 21, 2023
Essay in new book Fieldwork for Future Ecologies
February 21, 2023
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February 21, 2023

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.

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