I write about film and art for numerous publications. I also do a lot of copywriting and ghostwriting.
Beyond the Wall: ‘The Zone of Interest’, Ambient Sound, and the Savagery of Politeness
On Johnnie Burn’s remarkable sound design for Jonathan Glazer’s film and the accrual of noise in the real world. Rough Cut, 10 April 2024.
Robots, memory and matter at the NGV
A preview of the NGV’s Triennial. The Age, 1 December 2023.
Photographer: Tim Carrafa.
“Boom, bass, shake-shakes the room”: Working with the Melbourne Town Hall organ
A feature for The Age on a dissonant, dense and sonically challenging album built from electronic sound, field recordings of construction sites … and the huge, gothic bellow of the Town Hall grand organ.
6 November 2023.
Photographer: Eddie Jim.
“Who likes to listen to the old shit?” Stadium rock reviews for The Age
A series of reviews of Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Smashing Pumpkins and others across 2023.
Photographer: Richard Clifford.
Broadsheet RISING Special Edition 2022
I wrote four pieces for Broadsheet’s RISING special. Available in cafes and bars across Melbourne.
Photographer: Jeremy Orr.
Studio Visit: Surrealism Meets Hyperrealism With Celebrated Artist Patricia Piccinini
Originally published in Broadsheet, 25 May 2021
Photographer: Charlie Hawks. See link for more details.
On Flow State: A sonic bathing experience at Melbourne’s Rising Festival
Originally published in Broadsheet, 23 April 2021
Photographer: Sam Bisso. See link for more details.
“Fear of the Stranger”: On the refresh of GK Saunders’ The Stranger, ABC iview
Originally published in Australian Screen Review, 13 Aug 2020
“People are so ready to be violent towards each other”: Jennifer Kent On Her Harrowing New Film The Nightingale
Originally published in Broadsheet, 9 September 2019
Burn down the Galleries: On César Aira’s On Contemporary Art
Originally published in The Lifted Brow, 22 March 2019
Watching the Clock: On Christian Marclay’s The Clock
Originally published in Broadsheet, 31 January 2019
The Dislocation of Now: On Ali Smith’s Spring
Originally published in The Lifted Brow, 31 May 2019
Seeing the Unseeable: On
fortyfivedownstairs’ All We Can’t See
Originally published in The Saturday Paper, 4 August 2018.
Two Photographers, Two Muses: On Polixeni Papapetrou and Petrina Hicks at the NGV
Originally published in Broadsheet, 2 October 2019