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— press · selected writings —

What others have written.

A short shelf of articles, interviews and reviews — collected so you don't have to.

Cabinet Magazine— issue 84 —2025·11

The compass that points nowhere — on Main Character's crystal series

An essay on why the same shape, painted three hundred times, becomes a different shape each time. By the magazine's senior critic.

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The Quarterly— interview —2025·07

"I paint to locate myself" — a long conversation

Eight thousand words on studio routine, the charity tier, and why the work is finally getting smaller again.

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Salt & Pine— review —2024·12

Cape Atlas: a residency in radio silence

Field report from the six-month residency on the coast. Includes excerpts from the studio journal.

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Folio & Type— profile —2024·05

Inside the foundation: how one in five became a working ledger

The first independent audit of the Main Character foundation, with commentary from three of the recipient organisations.

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Distant Press— essay —2023·09

A short history of the plumbob in contemporary painting

How a single shape moved from game iconography to a vocabulary used by half a dozen practitioners across two continents.

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