Freelance art historian, critic and curator.
Project editor, since 2021, Catalogue Raisonné of the oil paintings of Patrick Heron (to be published 2027). Senior Curator of Modern & Contemporary British Art, and Archives at Tate 2006-2021. Deputy editor of Art Monthly 1997-2006. Freelance art critic and art historian since 1988.
Exhibitions include: ‘Barry Flanagan, Early Works 1965-1982’ (Tate Britain 2011); ‘Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979’ (Tate Britain 2016); ‘David Hockney’ (Tate Britain and tour 2017-18); ‘Patrick Heron’ (Tate St Ives and tour 2018-19). He is the author of ‘Richard Hamilton Swingeing London 67 (f)’ (Afterall/MIT Press 2012).
Amongst other projects he continues to research Gustav Metzger, Alexander Trocchi and British countercultures of the 1960s and 1970s.
A founding member and fellow of the London Institute of ‘Pataphysics.