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A list of things written

> Entries marked * are long essays, and those marked * appear in full on the Taste of Writing page

2008

Forthcoming articles on:

- *Brian Griffiths

- Lawrence Carroll

- *Ian Kiaer and Sara MacKillop

- Stephen Nelson

‘Abstract Vision: François Morellet’ (preview), Galleries, XXV, 10 (March 2008), p.13

Introduction to Danny Rolph, Singularity, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton & Cella, London, pp.3-6 (forthcoming)

Artists’ profiles in Michael Evans (ed.), Little Black Book: Art, Cassell Illustrated, London, 2008 (forthcoming). [250-word entries on Acconci—Anselmo—Artaud—Brisley—Broodthaers—Buckley—Buckminster Fuller—Burton—Chillida—Iris Clert—Deacon—Fabro—Elizabeth Forbes—Sam Francis—Gallen-Kallela—Gober—Golub—Gorky—Hammershøi—Hartley—Hesse—Roger Hilton—Hans Hofmann—Jorn—Katz—Ellsworth Kelly—Kline—Marden—Marin—Kenneth Martin—Mayakovsky—Mitchell—Morellet—Nauman—Alice Neel—Olitski—Roland Penrose—Poons—Porter—Herbert Read—Richier—Rollins—Rückriem—Ruscha—Morgan Russell—Ryman—Saatchi—Schnabel—Scully—Meyer Shapiro—David Smith—Steinbach—Joseph Stella—David Sylvester—Thiebaud—Turnbull—Twombly—Tworkov—Wallinger—Weiner—Wentworth—Grant Wood—Woodrow—Zorn—Arte Povera—Brilliant! New Art from London—Documenta—Galerie Foksal—Independent Group—Magiciens de la Terre—Modern Art from the USA—Sensation—Situation artists—Sixteen Americans—Team X—This Is Tomorrow—When Attitudes Become Form—Young Contemporaries]

2007

‘Painting the paradox’ in Layer Cake (exhibition catalogue), Fabio Tiboni Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, pp.5-11

‘Variable Intensities’ in Martin Newth: Solar Cinema, Art Works in Wimbledon, London, unpag. [pp.12-16]

‘David Batchelor Unplugged’, Art World, 1, (October 2007), pp.42-47

*‘Title Deeds’ [article on Thames & Hudson’s World of Art series], Miser & Now, 11 (October 2007), pp.56-64

‘Is it assign too much’ [article on Stephen Wilks, Travels with a donkey], Miser & Now, 11 (October 2007), pp.54-55

*‘It shouldn’t happen to a dream’ [article on William Cobbing], Miser & Now, 11 (October 2007), pp.32-39

*‘Laugh at trouble; it is only a bubble’ [article on Stuart Cumberland], Miser & Now, 11 (October 2007), pp.20-27

‘Chimera Angles’ in Gordon Cheung: The 1,000 Yard Stare (exhibition guide), Aspex, Portsmouth, September 2007

*‘Recovery Rooms: Richard Woods’, Miser & Now, 10 (August 2007), pp.18-25

‘M&N commissions Damien Roach’, Miser & Now, 10 (August 2007), pp.34-35

*‘I have this terrible feeling. Heavy and Black: David Austen’, Miser & Now, 10 (August 2007), pp.50-57

‘The Pleasure Plinthable: Anton Henning – Conversation with Danny Rolph’, Miser & Now, 10 (August 2007), pp.58-63

*‘Sight Specifics: The taking of Precinct SW1A1HG’, Miser & Now, 10 (August 2007), pp.80-83

* ‘The Shock of the You’ in Sparks: Convocation, Economist commission, Cella at Sparks, London, July 2007

‘Please step on the grass’, Sublime, 4 (July 2007), p.98

* ‘Embodying the Abstract: the Sculpture of Richard Rome’, text on website www.richardrome.co.uk

* ‘Space Persuader: a note about Derek Morris’ in Derek Morris, Cella, London, July 2007

* ‘You can’t hide your lying eyes’ in Out There: New Paintings by Roberto Coda Zabetta (exhibition guide), Spectrum Fine Art, London, May 2007, 4pp

* ‘Charged Moment’ in Danny Rolph: Happenstance (monograph), AR Contemporary Gallery, Milan, and Broken Glass, London, 2007, pp.5-9

Text for ‘Divination’, b.22, Hamburg (exhibition introduction), text on website www.divination.org.uk

2006

‘Having it all: In the light of Richard Foster’ in Terry Setch RWA/James Boswell/Richard Foster/James Leggat (exhibition catalogue), Square One Gallery, London, October 2006, pp.18-19

* ‘Louder than words: The uneasy images of James Boswell and Terry Setch’ in Terry Setch RWA/James Boswell/Richard Foster/James Leggat (exhibition catalogue), Square One Gallery, London, October 2006, pp.1-3

* Introduction to LIMITS: Alighiero Boetti, Maria Chevska, Ellen Gallagher, Louise Hopkins, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, September.

‘Twisted into True’ in Alexis Harding: New Paintings (exhibition catalogue), Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, September 2006, pp. 3-15

‘Who needs actions when you got words? Why Jamie Shovlin lives in his head’, Miser & Now, 8 (summer 2006), pp.74-77.

*‘What’s the (subject) matter? Something about Phillip Allen’, Miser & Now, 8 (summer 2006), pp.15-17

‘Can you tell what it is yet? Tales of the other Rolph’ [article on Danny Rolph], Miser & Now, 8 (summer 2006), pp.46-48.

‘Liliane Lijn’ (review), Galleries, XXIII, 12 (May 2006)

‘Walk the Line’ in The Spiral of Time: Journeys between painting and drawing – Basil Beattie, Sigrid Holmwood, Vanessa Jackson, David Leapman, Rosa Lee (exhibition catalogue), APT, London, May 2006

‘Karel Appel’ (obituary), Daily Telegraph, 6 May 2006, p.29

Detail from Jeffrey Dennis, Suspect Package, 1995

2005

'Woods on the Outside’ in Richard Woods RENOVATION (exhibition report), Art Works in Wimbledon, London, December 2005, 12pp.

‘On “The Nature of Things”’, text on website www.thenatureofthings.org [for the exhibition The Nature of Things], Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, University of Central England, November 2005 (1,800 words)

Text in Danny Rolph, Obstraction (exhibition guide), AR Contemporary Gallery, Milan, September 2005

‘Out of this World’ in Simon Callery: New Paintings for Paris (exhibition guide), Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris, September 2005, 8pp.

‘A Short Story about Painting’ in Short Stories about Painting (ed. Jeffrey Dennis), Art Space Gallery with Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts, London, 2005. pp. 82-9

Clem Crosby: New Paintings, privately printed, London, 2005, 10pp.

‘“Why did you do this, David?”’, “Because I had to.” in Froth on the Daydream: David Austen’s figurative watercolours, Broken Glass, London, 2005, pp. 14-16

Text for Time Share: Jane Bustin & Alexis Harding, Emma Hill Fine Art/Eagle Gallery, London, May 2005 (Extended version in 2^nd and enlarged edition, September 2006), 6pp.

‘Conversation’ in Jamie Shovlin: Fontana Modern Masters (exhibition catalogue), Riflemaker, London, March 2005

High Life & Cluster Blocks: Paintings by Michael Gough, Michael Gough, London, 2005 (Book 3 or four-book set)

‘Danny Rolph: Lessons from history” in Danny Rolph: Rutherford (exhibition guide), Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, January 2005

*‘Anna Barriball’ (review), Galleries, XXIII, 4 (September 2005)

‘Folk Archive’ (review), Galleries, XXIII, 1 (June 2005)

‘Louise Bourgeois’ (review), Galleries, XXII, 8 (February 2005)

Terry Setch, Wallgrid, 1968

2004

‘Wilson in a Public Place’ in Keith Wilson: Galvanised (exhibition catalogue), Milton Keynes Gallery, November 2004, pp. 14-26

‘Zadok Ben-David’ (review), Galleries, XXII, 6 (December 2004), reproduced on www.sculpture.org.uk/features/zadok1204 (Cass Sculpture Foundation)

‘Eduardo Chillida’ (review), Galleries, XXII, 4 (September 2004)

‘Cy Twombly’ (review), Galleries, XXI, 12 (May 2004)

‘Terry Setch’ (review), Galleries, XXI, 8 (February 2004)

Text in Jon Griffiths CABIN (exhibition guide), Friends of Cannizaro Park, London, October 2004

Text in Lawrence Carroll (exhibition guide), Tannery Arts, London, August 2004

‘You can take it with you’, text for Naomi V. Jelish, unique work by Jamie Shovlin, May 2004 (now in Charles Saatchi’s collection, London)

Text in Roger Kelly: New Works (exhibition guide), Paul Stolper and Timothy Everest, London, May 2004, 4pp.

Text in Maria Chevska: Can’t Wait (Letters RL) (press release/guide), Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, April 2004

‘Skateboarders’ – An exhibition of new paintings by Terry Setch (exhibition catalogue), Campden Gallery, Chipping Camden, March 2004

‘A note about Neal Rock’ in Neal Rock Paintings 2003-2004 (exhibition catalogue), fa projects, London and Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, 2004

‘Danny Rolph’ in New British Painting (exhibition catalogue), John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, January 2004

Selected bibliography 1995-2003

2003

Jeffrey Dennis: A Crisis of Connections (exhibition catalogue), Art Space Gallery/Michael Richardson Fine Art, London, July 2003

‘Sculpture along the Wandle Trail’, Time & Leisure magazine, July-August

2001

‘Troubling over the World as Matter’ in Michael Tooby and Martin Holman, Terry Setch: A Retrospective (monograph), Howard Gardens Gallery, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, 2000, pp. 41-64

2000

‘The results always surprise me: Ian Davenport’s paintings’(monographic essay), London Magazine, XL, 9-10, December 2000/January 2001

1999

‘The Sculpture of Empathy’ in Jenni Lomax and Mel Gooding (eds), Kim Lim (exhibition catalogue), Camden Arts Centre, London, 1999, pp. 9-15

1997

Text in Presencing - Jane Bustin, Maria Chevska, Bernadette Kerr (exhibition catalogue), Eagle Gallery, London, October

‘Prunella Clough. Painting the middle ground’(monographic essay), London Magazine, February/March 1997

1995

'Jeffrey Dennis' (monographic essay), London Magazine, February/March 1995, reproduced on www.jeffreydennis.co.uk/holman/holman.html