Portfolio: writing

My work for various publications, including The London Magazine, The Art Newspaper, City AM and UnHerd.

Selected

Essays

Life Stories, Writ Large: Remarks on the history of modern tattoos | The Critic

What did Aspasia really look like? | Antigone Journal

Nothing in excess? Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece at The British Museum | The London Magazine, May 2023

Voices from the ‘Hijab Revolution’, One Year On | ArtReview, September 2023

We Must Cultivate Our Garden: Can Eco Art Change How We Treat the World? | The London Magazine, August 2023

How art cured Edvard Munch | UnHerd, May 2022

Reviews

Jane Jin Kaisen’s ‘Halmang’ | ArtReview

Sargent & Fashion and the art of dressing to impress | Observer

Natural Brown Prom Queen by Sudan Archives | Telegraph, September 2022

The Panagyurishte Treasure Comes to the British Museum | Observer, May 2023

The Pirates of Penzance at the English National Opera | Classical Music Daily, 2025

A 6-panel comic called Relationship Therapy, by Frances Forbes-Carbines. A humanoid cat and bird are sitting on a sofa, facing some kind of bespectacled squirrel, who is supposedly their relationship therapist.
Relationship Therapy, Frances Forbes-Carbines (The Guardian, May 2016)