Words

I write about ceramics, crafts, identity and design.
If you have an idea in mind and are looking for a writer, do not hesitate to get in touch.

≍ ICON Magazine
’Bisila Noha on how architecture looks beyond the status quo at the Venice Architecture Biennale’
Words for Design Can’s online column
July 2023

≍ ICON Magazine
’Meritocracy and other myths. With power comes responsibility, not excuses. The design profession needs to face uncomfortable truths.’
Words for Design Can’s print column
April 2023

≍ ICON Magazine
’What the fight for inclusion needs in 2023’
Words for Design Can’s online column
January 2023

≍ ‘Uprooting, Rerooting: Matter and the construction of the self’ (Galerie Revel, 2022-23)
The exhibition book including the words behind the works and stunning photos by Karina Smagulova.
You can purchase a copy here.

≍ Royal Academy Magazine
I wrote about the exhibition Body Vessel Clay for the magazine’s ‘Artists on Art’ issue
Print issue, November 2021

≍ OnOffice Magazine
Commissioned piece ‘On Mindful and Mindless Making’
Print issue, Autumn 2021

≍ Ceramic Review
‘On Clay, Big Questions and Hope’
Reflections on the Baney Clay project in the context of Covid-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Only available in print (Issue 305, September/October 2020)

≍ Plural Magazine
’On Unity, Humankind and Clay’
Some reflections on feminism, art, pottery and my own identity in the context of the Baney Clay project.
June 2020

≍ Decorating Dissidence
’A Life Journey Through Clay’ piece as part of their Ceramics Issue
June 2020