Pedagogy & Publishing

My work as an artist, teacher, and publisher is driven by a common principle: to express and share the things that excite, trouble, and inspire me.

As a research-oriented educator and Senior Fellow of Higher Education at UAL, I explore how contemporary theory and critical pedagogy can inform engaging and useful teaching and learning experiences. By developing and working with experimental research methods, I investigate how knowledge is produced, how meaning is constructed through different mediums, and how communication platforms shape an audience's experience of content. My aim is to help the cohorts I work with discover the joy of accessing and activating their own agency.

My publishing experience, and the inherent processes of developing content, editorial critique, art direction and graphic design, continues to inform my teaching and my work as a professional artist.

Teaching & Research

The ICA stage prepared for an event: dusty mauve beanbags scattered across a wooden floor beneath spotlights, stacked black chairs at the edge — a space waiting to be activated

ICA x Softlaunch: Radical Play

Networking and community building through the lens of radical play at the ICA.

2022

A red poster for Pleasure Activism Means — cloud illustrations labelled HONEY, details of the online panel at UAL London College of Fashion, February 2021

Pleasure Activism and What Can a Body Do?

A panel discussion exploring how pleasure can be used for embodied actionable change, inspired by Adrienne Maree Brown.

2021

Collective Joy in the Classroom

Collective Joy in the Classroom

Research into collective joy as a pedagogic principle in creative education.

2021

A figure hunched in black-and-white, hair wild, arms outstretched, emerging from billowing smoke — a still of anguished transformation, the body as site of resistance

What does it mean to be ANTI-FRAGILE for GEN Z?

A video installation exploring radical and creative pedagogies through the lens of ‘The Personal is Political’.

2020

An abstract pattern of dark aubergine organic shapes on pale grey — a four-petalled flower among undulating forms, graphic and rhythmic as a textile print

The Antifragile Classroom

An online workshop for school teachers sharing ideas around radical pedagogies and their impact on wellbeing.

2020

A group seated around a long wooden table inside a room painted in bold blocks of yellow, blue, red, and orange — bare bulbs hanging above, immersive and engaged

The Long Table

A series of pedagogic research documents exploring ecologies, identity and society.

2019

Translucent, ice-like objects resembling dental moulds in lavender and pale blue resin — the body made precious, memory given crystalline form

Memories Last Longer than Things

An event addressing the ‘experiential’ through the lens of communication strategy and aesthetics at LCF.

2018

Publishing, Pop-ups and Conversations

A dense stack of art, fashion, and theory publications in daylight: Ways of Seeing, Baudrillard, System — a cross-disciplinary library of influences

Print Matters

A series of conversations on the aesthetics, ethics and production practices of print publishing, headlined by Lucinda Chambers.

2017

A kraft-brown book: What’s Next? 100 Years of the Contemporary Art Society, edited by Lucy Byatt and Charlotte Troy — bold black type on humble cardboard

What’s Next?

100 Years of the Contemporary Art Society: Inside Public Collections. Edited by Lucy Byatt and Charlotte Troy.

2011

HIJACK REALITY in fairground lettering — three-dimensional, multi-coloured, with blue speed-lines radiating from behind — a pop-art call to action painted like a promise

Hijack Reality

A spirited book co-published with Deptford X to celebrate their tenth anniversary, distributed by Thames & Hudson.

2010

A white postcard box sealed with a black circular label: 12 Postcards / New Math by Craig Damrauer / Edited by Ed Ruscha — conceptual art distilled to pocket format

New Math

Charming graphic equations on contemporary life by Craig Damrauer, published as a limited postcard edition for Ed Ruscha’s Hayward Gallery exhibition.

2010

A display rack of Parkett art journals, their colourful covers stacked in rows — a dense archive of contemporary art conversation

Dispense and Connect

A conversation bringing together the finest European magazine publishers and editors to discuss periodical art publishing.

2010

A blue cassette and a black cassette in clear cases: Monologues 1 — Mark Fisher on the Poor and the Proletariat, Sally O’Reilly on Mime and MIDI — lo-fi publishing as audio art

Monologues

An audio publication where participants pick and speak about a topic from a pre-selected list.

2009

The masthead of The Moon, a feminist newspaper: beneath the title, John Berger’s words — Women watch themselves being looked at — followed by a line drawing and dense columns of critical writing

The Moon

A feminist free ‘newspaper’ ironically named in response to The Sun, published for Tate Modern’s Once More with Feeling event.

2009

The opening night of CT Pocket bookshop inside BEARSPACE gallery: shelves crammed with art books, inflatable green Hulk figures suspended from above, visitors pressed together in the narrow space

CT Pocket

The first arts bookshop in Deptford, southeast London — a mini bookshop inside the contemporary art gallery BEARSPACE.

2009

A blue shopfront with MAN MADE in large black letters on the window, inflatable Hulk figures displayed inside — a pop-cultural experiment during Frieze Art Fair

MAN-MADE

A commercial experiment exploring our relationship with commodities made by man, presented during Frieze Art Fair.

2008

A Mediterranean house with green shutters, almost engulfed by cascading fuchsia bougainvillea — sun-bleached walls and dry earth, the warmth and fragility of home

Home Sweet Home

The first book published by CT Editions — a kind of alt-Condé Nast investigation of how others organise their nests.

2006

The front page of Warm Red U, a free zine by CT Editions: a bold red chevron lists contributors — Terry Hall, Susan Hiller, Peter Saville, Thurston Moore — beneath the question 'What is humanity’s biggest failing?'

Q&A

A free zine originally printed and published in 2006 with new digital interviews ongoing, including Alexandra Shulman, Amos Vogel, Brian Marsland, Barry Smith, Cosey Fanni Tutti, David Shrigley, Mike Fleiss, Grayson Perry, Lucy McKenzie, Coco Fusco, Penny Martin, Peter Saville, Julia Peyton-Jones, Susan Hiller, Terry Hall, and Thurston Moore.

2006

Bold angular handwriting on white paper: Be uncomfortable; be sand, not oil in the machinery of the world — Günther Eich’s postwar demand, transcribed with urgency

Film as a Subversive Art

The most exciting and comprehensive book on avant-garde, underground and exceptional commercial film. A classic returns.

2005