Alice Butler
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Essays
Eleanor Antin on Art, Ageing and Grief
An interview with the performance artist, Eleanor Antin, on her 2017 re-enactment of her 1972 work,
CARVING: A Traditional Sculpture
With Love, A Letter to Cookie and her Stories
An essay for
Cabinet
magazine about the life, stories, and adolescence, of the writer and actress, Cookie Mueller
Postcards to Performance (About Time)
An essay for
gorse
journal on British performance art practices
The Peach Slip
An essay on memory and clothing, commissioned to coincide with the launch of The Wapping Project Commissions
Ann Quin’s Night-time Ink, A Postscript
Shown as part of the Royal College of Art graduate show in 2013, this book contains an extended essay that takes the life and work of the British avant-garde novelist Ann Quin as its subject
The Thousand and Third Night: Alternative Miss World, 1975
A performative essay on the Alternative Miss World event of 1975 that took place in the artists’ studios of Butler’s Wharf, published in the collaboratively produced book,
After Butler’s Wharf: Essays on a Working Building
(Royal College of Art, 2013)
Artificial Hearts
Catalogue essay published to coincide with the exhibition
What Will They See of Me?
(Jerwood/FVU Awards) at Jerwood Space, London, April 2014
Said & Done
Monograph on the performance practice of the British artist Cally Spooner, published in
frieze
, May 2014
Scrolling you, and the cold descriptors
Exhibition text on the poetry of Ariana Reines, running parallel to the themes of the exhibition
Strange Attraction
at APT Gallery in London, March 2015
Girls Modelled in Plaster or, Losing Your Head
Catalogue essay published on the occasion of an exhibition of Kate Lyddon’s work at Standpoint Gallery in London
To Ann, Finally…
An essay for the Irish literary journal
gorse
that considers the legacy of the work of British avant-garde novelist Ann Quin in contemporary women’s experimental writing, from Kathy Acker to Dodie Bellamy
scrolling the banal babe, in the work of Clunie Reid
I was invited to contribute a text on the work of Clunie Reid to accompany newly commissioned works by the artist for the
Photoworks Annual
, themed ‘Women’
Autobiographical Bodies
An essay for
Cabinet
magazine that considers the use of autobiography in 1960s/70s avant-garde literature and art, by way of an unpublished manuscript written by the unknown author, Clive Curtis
The Bark Babe, and friends
Published to coincide with an exhibition of new work by Kate Lyddon, this catalogue essay uses one of the artist’s etchings as a starting point from which to consider food and the feminist fairytale
Reviews
Kate Zambreno, Book of Mutter
A review of Kate Zambreno's
Book of Mutter
for
Art Monthly
56 Artillery Lane
A review of the group show at Raven Row, '56 Artillery Lane', curated by Naomi Pearce and Amy Budd, published in
frieze
, September 2017
Dóra Maurer
A review of Dóra Maurer exhibition at White Cube, Mason's Yard, London, published in
frieze
, June 2016
Rachel Maclean
A review of Rachel Maclean’s show at Rowing in London, published in
frieze
, March 2015
Cally Spooner
A review of Cally Spooner’s show at International Project Space in Birmingham, published in
frieze
, January 2013
The Vivisector
A review of the Cindy Sherman-focused, group show at Spruth Magers in London, published in
frieze
, April 2013
Aquatopia
A review of the cross-temporal, group exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary, ‘Aquatopia’, published in
frieze
, October 2013
Jonathan Baldock
A review of Jonathan Baldock’s exhibition at Chapter in Cardiff, published on the
frieze
website
Andra Ursuta
A review of Andra Ursula’s exhibition at Massimo de Carlo in London, published in
frieze
, May 2015
Hannah Collins
A review of the Hannah Collins retrospective at Camden Arts Centre, published in Art Monthly, September 2015
The boys, the girls and the political
A review of the group exhibition at Lisson Gallery, ‘The boys, the girls and the political’, published in
frieze
, October 2015
Talks
What Will They See of Me?
Speaker at a conference organised in conjunction with the
What Will They See of Me?
exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, May 2015
Barf Talk
A talk on ‘barfing’ in feminist literature and performance art, Arts at the Old Fire Station, Oxford, February 2016
Residencies & Exhibitions
Whitstable Biennale: Fan Letters of Love
A commission for the Whitstable Biennale 2016, in which 700 handmade booklets were produced in response to themes of love, desire and kleptomania
Jerwood Visual Arts Writer in Residence: something like life writing
An interview-essay on Alice May Williams’s installation, An Unreliable Witness, 2015
Jerwood Visual Arts Writer in Residence: POSTSCRIPT: unpacking Blood in stuff
A reading of Marianna Simnett’s film
Blood
(2015), via the artist’s ephemera
Jerwood Visual Arts Writer in Residence: “more talk than tour”, or the intimacy of interlocuting
An essay of fragments that considers the work of Marianna Simnett and Lucy Clout in relation to themes of conversation and correspondence
Jerwood Visual Arts Writer in Residence: a couple of intimate documents, no.1
A letter to Lucy Clout
Jerwood Visual Arts Writer in Residence: a couple of intimate documents, no.2
A letter to Marianna Simnett’s film,
Blood
(2015)
Jerwood Visual Arts Writer in Residence: Leaky Containers
The first post of the residency that introduces my ideas and approach