After This
After This, pairs layered abstract imagery from my Strange Appearance series with a collection of poems, each in their own way providing queer takes on grief, sexuality, apocalypse and living in the Anthropocene.
Available from Clouds Of Magellan Press 2025
On art
Recent Writing
Spectre and Stem: imagination, research, printmaking, Exhibition essay Sceptre and Stem, Print Council of Australia Gallery, Melbourne, February 20225
Dislocations: Body Memory Place - Uncertain Positions Reflections 30 years On, Queries 1 September 2024
This Public Feeling: Intimacy and technologies: a pre-history, Bent Street 4.1, August 2020
Why did the NGV put Keith Haring back in the closet?, The Conversation, January 13, 2020
The ecstatic’s tears: notes towards a novel, New Writing, September 2019
David Wojnarowicz’s Lips, Bent Street 2, January 2019
As life imitates art, how are we to read terror plots in film and TV? The Conversation, July 21, 2016
Derek Jarman’s Queer Resilience Bent Street 4.2 , 2020
On LGBTIQ+, Politics & Religion
This Public Feeling: Intimacy and technologies: a pre-history, Bent Street 4.1, August 2020
From camp to gay to queer: David McDiarmid and HIV/ AIDS art The Conversation, August 26, 2014
John Paul is no saint – his canonisation is political theatre The Conversation, May 1, 2014
Online and onwards: it gets better for gay and lesbian media, The Conversation, March 27, 2014
A cool change, but what has Pope Francis actually achieved? The Conversation, February 11, 2014