Tuesday 14 April 2020

New work for Christie's

I've started writing for the Christie's art site, firstly covering the wonderful French furniture designer Charlotte Perriand. Read the piece here

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New Work for The Sportsman

I've started writing for The Sportsman, covering things like Corona's impact on events and an interview with football accountant Kieran Maguire from The Price of Football. All my pieces are here.

Contemporary Art for Artspace

I've been writing a lot about contemporary art for Artspace, covering everything from music photography and Americana to the colourful geometry of Concrete Art and lots more...

Life With A Shaved Head

I wrote about how to live with a shaved head for Mr Porter. Read the piece here

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Andy Warhol in The Guardian

I wrote the Guardian Guide's cover story on the Andy Warhol retrospective, here.

Saturday 15 April 2017

Supplement Issue # 4

The new issue of Supplement is out this week. Edited by myself and Alex Rayner, art direction by Tom Lardner and Christopher West at Plus Agency. Art, fashion, photography and music, including Joan Jonas, Wolfgang Tillmans, Joe Mugford on Cosey Fanni Tutti, Jude Rogers on Alexis Taylor and my long piece on how reality TV ate away at democracy. www.supplementmagazine.co.uk, or available from those fancy newsagents in Soho and most WH Smiths.

Longer essays at Medium

I'm now posting my longer essays and features to Medium. You can read them all here.

Thursday 29 December 2016

Chivas: The Blend

Through my work with the projects*, I was recently involved in curating a two-month series of cultural talks and interviews at Chivas' pop-up space, The Blend, in east London. Over the eight weeks we had guests including Acyde, Tremaine Emory, Reggie Yates, chefs Jeremy Lee and Jackson Boxer, writers Dan Davies, Camilla Way and David Nicholls, photographers Ewen Spencer, Paul Hallam, Nina Manandhar and Derek Ridgers and artists Bafic and Jonathan Yeo.

BBC World Service Weekend

I was recently a guest on the BBC World Service's Weekend programme, alongside artist Aowen Jin, talking about the French elections, masculinity, Chinese art and more.

Cancer, cannabis and the search for a cure

My long investigative feature on Britain's network of cancer patients and the dealers, doctors and scientists who are helping them self-medicate with cannabinoids ran in the most recent issue of Raconteur, the high-end current affairs mag. You can read the full story here. Images are by the very talented photographer, Joseph Fox.



Thursday 24 November 2016

CASEBOOK VOLUME 1

My long interview with groundbreaking artist BAFIC is in the debut issue of CASEBOOK, the beautiful visual culture magazine from the people at Topsafe. There was a fun party at the ICA to launch it.

Supplement Issue 3

Issue three of the big coffee-table sized art/fashion/culture/photography magazine that I co-edit with Alex Rayner, SUPPLEMENT, is out now.

DJing at Merchants Tavern

I've been DJing more on the wonderful vinyl-only soundsystem at Merchants Tavern in Shoreditch. Next set due December 23rd. Pop down for dub/disco/balearic goodness.


Neon Light in Japanese Wired

The book I published with French photographer Celine Stella via my No UFO's imprint is featured in the new Japanese edition of Wired. You can read the piece (in Japanese) here.

Saturday 27 August 2016

Little Book of Wonders

I've contributed an essay on the modern serial entrepreneur to The Little Book of Wonders, a publication produced by Barclays for its top tier customers with the Economist Group. More information on the project here.

Running for Mr Porter

My latest piece for Mr Porter's 'Journal' is live, on the most epic running routes on earth. Read it here.



AskMen update

My weekly column for Ask Men is still ongoing. Recent subjects include suicide bombers on film, mental health awareness for young men, marathon training, fashion trends and axe-throwing. Read them all here

BBC World Service Weekend

Earlier this summer I made another appearance as a guest on the BBC World Service's excellent Weekend programme, alongside CNN's Nina dos Santos. Show archive is here.

DJing in London

I've DJ'd a couple of times recently on the incredible system at Angela Hartnett's Merchants Tavern. Next date for the diary is Friday, October 21st for a vinyl-only trip through dub, disco, afro, balearic and boogie.

Monday 11 April 2016

SUPPLEMENT, issue 2 - out now

The new issue of Supplement - edited by myself and Alex Rayner - is out now. It's like an art gallery on paper, and features Robert Mapplethorpe, Dennis Morris and Megan Eagles among others.