Nothing Personal Magazine | January 2021
Nothing Personal is a new magazine for art, essays and reviews, based in Glasgow, co-founded by Calum Sutherland, Maria Howard, Esther Draycott and Kiah Endelman Music.
The pilot issue includes writing and reviews by Neil Clements, Esther Draycott, Kiah Endelman Music, Maria Howard, Loll Jung, Aman Sandhu, Calum Sutherland and Swapnaa Tamhane, and artworks and images by Rosie Dowd-Smyth, Rhett Leinster, Lindsey Jean McLean, Oliver McConnie and Julia Tulke.
My article, Much of it Means Nothing, critiques the lack of meaningful care or action behind so-called ‘statements of commitment’ that art institutions seem to endlessly churn out around crucial issues including anti-racism, sustainability and fair pay.
EDUCATION
MLITT ART WRITING, Glasgow School of Art, 2018-19 (Distinction)
BA FINE ART, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2017 (First Class Honours)
AWARDS
2020 SOCIETY OF AUTHORS GRANT, The Authors' Contingency Fund
2020 WRITING RESIDENCY, Can Serrat, Barcelona, Spain
2019 YELLOW PAPER AWARD, for highest mark in Masters dissertation, prize being publication in The Yellow Paper II Journal for Art Writing
RESIDENCIES
2020 FUNDEDWRITING RESIDENCY, Can Serrat, Barcelona, Spain
2019 RESEARCH RESIDENCY (ARTISTS BOOKS/ PAMPHLETS), Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh
2017 LANGUAGE AND SOUND AS SCULPTURE, XXIII CSAV, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
PUBLICATION
2021 SKIRTS, text co-written with Gwen Dupré and Esther Draycott in Glasgow, published by Dostoyevsky Wannabe as part of their Cities anthology series (upcoming)
2021 TO FEEL A BODY GROUNDED, text in The Yellow Paper II art writing journal (upcoming, award)
2021 MUCH OF IT MEANS NOTHING, article in Nothing Personal Magazine, Glasgow
2020 ESTHER, text in PUB Journal III, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam
2020 SHE SAID MY BODY CONTAINS BLOOD BATHS, response to performance by Louise Ahl's Hevi Metle at Tramway Glasgow, 2019 in MAP Magazine
2019 SHE HAD FOUND HER WORLD IN TOUCH, text in The Yellow Paper I art writing journal
2018 UNDERFOOT, text in Soft Shell anthology, produced at Publication Studio, Glasgow
2018 NOTES ON FALLING, text in By All Means journal with issue theme of ‘artmaking’
2018 UP/SKIRT, text in How Do We Make a We, published by Motto Books
2017 A GRAPE HAD SLIPPED HIS GRASP, text in art writing periodical Martha, Vol I
PERFORMANCES/EVENTS
2021 BEYOND FORM, University of Glasgow, UK, academic symposium (upcoming)
2019 THE LIP OF THE CUP, CCA Glasgow, UK
2019 WHERE, THEN, AND TO WHAT, Glasgow Women’s Library, UK
2019 SOFT SHELL, Poetry Club, Glasgow, UK(ongoing series of reading events)
2018 EARWAX, Rye Wax, London, UK (multiple performances as part of collective)
2018 TALKING STICK, Torriano Meeting House, London, UK
EXHIBITIONS
2019 GSA POSTGRADUATE DEGREE SHOW, Glasgow, UK
2018 TO REMAIN USEFUL, HFBK, Hamburg, Germany
2017 BAFA DEGREE SHOW, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
2017 GALA, co-curator of group show with Cuan Roche and Joe Brown, Laurie Grove Baths, London
2016 CASA TOMADA, House Party Collective (Trundley Road), London, UK
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
CO-EDITOR, Nothing Personal Magazine (Dec 2019-ongoing)
ARTIST FACILITATOR, Pollok House, Glasgow, International Women's Day (March 2020)
VISITOR SERVICES ASSISTANT, Pollok House, National Trust for Scotland (2019-20)
JUNIOR FELLOW, Art Department, Goldsmiths University of London (2017-18)
ARTIST ASSISTANT/TECHNICIAN, Michael Dean (2017-19)
ARCHIVAL ASSISTANT, Women's Art Library, Goldsmiths (2017)