Selected essays in journals, catalogues, magazines, and elsewhere
Selected academic journal essays 2021: ‘Feminism, Women and Art Education: the UK Experience’, Women’s Studies International Forum n.85 2019: ‘The early work of Griselda Pollock in the context of developing feminist thinking in art history and criticism.’ In: Raluca Bibiri (ed) Griselda Pollock: From Feminism to the Concentratory and Beyond Special issue: Images, Imagini, Images Journal of Visual and Cultural Studies n. 7 2017 (published 2019) (Iași: Institutul European, Romania) 2016: ‘Feminism meets the Big Exhibition: Museum Survey Shows since 2005’, OnCuratingIssue 29. Special issue: Curating in Feminist Thought 2013: ‘Actionmyth, Historypanic: The entry of VALIE EXPORT’s Aktionhose: Genitalpanik into art history’, n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal vol. 32 2002: ‘Approaching painting through feminine morphology’ Paragraph v.23, n. 3. Special Issue: Dialogues: Luce Irigaray 2000: ‘Disruptive Women Artists: An Irigarayan Reading of Irish Visual Culture’, Irish Studies Review, v.8, n.1 1997: ‘Within the Pale in from: Beyond the Pale: the construction of femininity in the curating of an exhibition season at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin’, Journal of Gender Studies, v.6, n.3 1995: ‘Irish/Woman/Artist: Selective Readings’, Feminist Review, n. 50
Selected catalogue essays 2019: ‘Vanessa German: Assembling a Radical Generosity’ in Vanessa German: Miracles and Glories Abound (Flint, MI: Flint Institute of Art) 1996: 'Fragments and Speculations towards a Context for “Crossing Borders”’, in Whitney Chadwick and Cherie Raciti (eds), Crossing Boundaries: Belfast Contemporary Art from Northern Ireland (San Francisco State University) 1995: ‘Rita Duffy: Reconstructing Narratives’, in Rita Duffy: Palimpsest (Orchard Gallery Derry) 1992: ‘Dancing on the Margins: Gender, Body, Representation’, in Sounding the Depths: Pauline Cummins and Louise Walsh, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 1990: ‘The Body of the Mother: paradoxes and absences’, in Mothers, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 1990: ‘Through the Looking Glass: a context for the work of Wendy McMurdo’, in Wendy McMurdo, City Art Centre, Edinburgh 1989: ‘Towards unravelling the layers’, in Natalia Abakalova and Anatolya Zighalov, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow 1986: ‘Pauline Cummins’ in Irish Art, WAAG Publications, Boston and New York
Selected magazine essays 2002: ‘The Gender Gap’, Circa no. 100 1999: ‘The Women’s Movement in Art Education’, Circa, n. 89, supplement: A is for Art: A Supplement on Art Education 1996: ‘She Looks at Her Looking For Him: Sophie Calle’, Women’s Art Magazine 1995: ‘Reframing Women’, Circa no. 72 1994: ‘Irigaray’s Imaginings’, Women’s Art Magazine, Nov/Dec 1994: ‘Feminism in Art History: The Reclining Nude’, Women’s News: Irish Feminist Magazine, June/July 1993 : ‘Artist run’, Circa no 66, winter 1992: ‘Bodies of knowledge’, Women’s Art Magazine no. 49 1992: ‘Jo Spence 1934-1992’, Portfolio Magazine no 15 1990: ‘Helen Chadwick’, WASL Journal, Jan/Feb 1989: ‘Marie Jo Lafontaine’, Art Monthly, n. 127 1988: ‘We don’t need another hero’, Alba, summer 1988: ‘Artists in Poland’, Artists Newsletter, September 1984: ‘The Women Artists’ Conference, Glasgow’, Aspects no. 28
Miscellaneous 2011: Untitled contribution, M/E/A/N/I/N/G 25th Anniversary Edition, http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/meaning/05/index.html 2001: ‘Women in Art History, Theory and Criticism’ and ‘Women in Sculpture and Installation’, inEncyclopaedia of Women’s Studies, ed. Dale Spender (New York: Routledge) 1998: ‘Luce Irigaray’ in Mike Kelly (ed) Encyclopaedia of Aesthetics (Oxford University Press) vol 2 1996: ‘Louise Bourgeois’s “Cells”: Gesturing towards the mother’, in Ian Cole (ed): Museum of Modern Art Papers vol 1: Louise Bourgeois, Oxford: Museum of Modern Art 1991: ‘The Role of the Critic in a Changing Europe’, in Chris Carrell & Jekaterina Young (eds): Points East Conference Papers, New Beginnings, Glasgow