Writing

Art and the Historical Film: Between Realism and the Sublime 2022
Art History for Filmmakers 2016

Writings

  • ‘Carl Dreyer’s Vampyr and the world of dreams’ in The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire 2024. >
  • The Mystagogue: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg and the Art of the Occult’ The Swedenborg Review IV, 2023
  • A World Made of Art’ in Screening the Art World ed. Temenuga Trifonova, University of Amsterdam Press 2022.
  • Scenography and Art History ed. ASTRID VON Rosen and Viveka Kjellmer. Bloomsbury Press 2020
  • TWIXT  118 pp. Published by Nant Studio, 2012. ISBN 978-0-9563567-4-1 Collected published critical writings.
  • Tarkovsky’s River Photography and text 2012 Published by Parallel Project.
  • Site Specific Art: Art as Site Response E-book about site-specific art, including history, theory and showcase of projects

ARTICLES: Much of my published work is collected here

My Clippings


Papers / Presentations:

  • ‘Egyptomania, Alchemy and Magic: decolonizing magic in contemporary art curation’ Association for Art History Annual Conference, London UCL 2023
  • ‘Transnational Curation: the Alchemy Exhibition’ in Curating Magic British Art Network Symposium. 2022.
  • ‘The Mystagogue: Philip James De Loutherbourg, Magic and Early Cinema’ Trans-States, University of Northampton 2022.
  • ‘Philip James De Loutherbourg, an Illustrated Lecture.’ The Swedenborg Centre, 2022.
  • ‘Akhenaten: The Tragedy of the Great House’ Shady Abdel Salaam’s unrealized film. Shadow Screens: Unmade, Unseen, Unreleased Film and Television Sheffield Hallam University 2022.
  • The Colonial Curse of “Egyptomania” and the Postcolonial Pharaonic. UAAC Conference, 2021
  • “Colour: between Art History and Cinema” Ways of Seeing Public Lecture, National Gallery London, Association for Art History November 2018.
  • “An illusion that feels real” – adapting Dutch Golden Age painting into cinema and photography” in the panel Reimagining the Iconic: Adapting and Adaptations of the Pictorial Image, UAAC Conference 2017 Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff Canada, October 2017