Writing & Media
The Witness’s Gesture Royal College of Art (2020)
Practice-led PhD for a poetic concept of witnessing.
The Memory Catcher (BBC Radio 4, Sun 26 Jan 2025). A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4. Recording/Julian Lass. Producers/Maia Miller-Lewis and Jo Rowntree. Composer/Maia Miller-Lewis. Selected for Radio 4’s Pick of the Week, Sun 2 Feb 2025. There will be a repeat broadcast on Radio 4 at 23:30, Tue 12 Aug 2025.
Quiet as a Flower (Copy Press, 2024). A Fireflies production for Copy Press. Script & Voice-over/Julian Lass. Audio/Reuben Huxtable. Sound editing/Julian Lass. Post-production/Jono Lomax. Graphics/Opal Morgen.
A bird over here, performed at ‘Traveling Distances,’ Copy Press (2022), with Brece Honeycutt and Jess Potter. You can hear the reading here. Creative non-fiction writing.
A witness is a movement, performed at ‘Reading and Revelation,’ The Common Intellect, Whitechapel Gallery (2018), with Cecile Malaspina, Jaspar Joseph-Jester, Yve Greslé, Cherry Smyth, Chris Fite-Wassilak. Creative non-fiction writing.
Shame, performed at ‘Flight Mode,’ at Daybreak, Asylum, London (2017), with artist Sharon Young. Creative non-fiction writing.
The flower always more, performed at Blue Hour, at Daybreak, Safehouses, London (2017), with Isobel Wohl and Marita Fraser, Julian Lass, Clair Le Couteur, Sharon Young. Creative non-fiction writing.
Becoming bee, performed at the ‘Theatre of Reading and Speaking,’ at Daybreak, Asylum, London (2017), with Julian Lass, Brigid McLeer, Clair Le Couteur, and Sharon Young. Creative non-fiction writing.
Kafka's Kaiserpanorama, performed at the ‘Fine Art Research Colloquium,’ Royal College of Art (2017), with guest speakers Ahuvia Kahane, Yve Lomax, Barbara Campbell-Lange, Cradeaux Alexander, Carol Mancke, and Brigid McLeer. Creative non-fiction writing.
Crows: a testimony, performed at the Royal College of Art (2016). Creative non-fiction writing and film.
Place Saint-Sulpice, ‘A Matter of Writing,’ Royal College of Art (2016). Creative non-fiction writing.
Idioglossia, contributor, Art Writing Guild (2013). Reading and launch at Whitechapel Gallery. Creative non-fiction writing.
Selected Other
Green Industry Wants to Take Our Land, The Guardian, 3/2022
Wanted: 100,000 pioneers for a green jobs Klondike in the Arctic, The Guardian, 11/2021
In Indra’s Net, Photomonitor, 2021. Creative non-fiction writing.
John the Printer, Photomonitor, 2013. Creative non-fiction writing.
Memento Mori in Joseph Noonan-Ganley, ed., Idioglossia: An Art Writing Glossary, Art Writing Guild, 2013. (Publisher link). Creative non-fiction writing.
Node Pole: Facebook in the Arctic (with Richard Orange), Geographical, 1/2013, pp. 39ff.
Sitting On the Fence: India-Bangladesh (with Richard Orange), Geographical, 11/2010, pp. 32–40.
Gaza Strip: The Children with Nowhere to Hide, Telegraph Magazine, 5/2010, pp. 20–24. (Telegraph website)
Eco Hero: The Anti-consumerist Filmmaker, Telegraph Magazine (Telegraph website), 6/2010, p. 69.
Taste to rely on, British Fine Foods, Telegraph Magazine, 6/2010. (Telegraph website)
Together We Are Stronger (with Diane Smyth), British Journal of Photography, 3/2010, pp. 42ff. Journalism.
We Love Print (with Diane Smyth & Simon Bainbridge), British Journal of Photography, 3/2010, pp. 58–64. (PDF here)
Message to You, British Journal of Photography, 1/7/2009, pp. 11–12.
William Fox-Talbot MBE, The Times, 2008.
Dame Antoinette Sibley DBE, The Times, 2008.
Roger Black MBE, BBC, 2008.
Frappuccino comes to Whitechapel, Index on Censorship, 2008.