• Darian Leader

ART WRITING

1998 On Henry Bond, A Response to the Photographs in Henry Bond, The Cult of the Street, Emily Tsingou Gallery, np.
1999 On Marc Quinn, Body Swap, Marc Quinn, Hannover Kunstverein, np.
2000 On Marc Quinn, Sculpture Between the Living and the Dead, in Marc Quinn, Milan, Prada Foundation, pp.14-19.
2002 On Olivier Richon, Animals Looking Sideways, in Olivier Richon, Royal College of Art.
2002 Eva Hesse, ‘A Quantity for Myself’, Tate Magazine, 2, pp.78-81.
2002 On Rodney Graham, The System of Rodney Grahams Costume Trilogy, in Rodney Graham, London, Whitechapel Gallery, pp.35-43.
2002 Stealing the Mona Lisa, What Art Stops Us from Seeing, London, Faber and Faber.
2003 On Readymades, Out of Place, Art Review, 54, pp.66-8.
2003 On James Hopkins, Elastic Band Reality, Modern Painters, 16, pp.90-93.
2003 Drawing on Space, in Antony Gormley, Domain Field, Gateshead, Baltic, pp.8-15.
2003 Anya Gallaccio, ‘A Responsibility towards Objects’, Modern Painters, 19.
2003 On Antony Gormley, Drawing on Space in Domain Field at Winchester: Antony Gormley, Winchester, Hampshire Sculpture Trust, pp.8-15 2003 Some Thoughts on Greenberg’s Abstract, Representational, and So Forth, in Transmission, Speaking and Listening, ed Sharon Kivland and Lesley Sanderson, Sheffield Hallam University, pp.15-21.
2004 On Antony Gormley, Drawing in Space in Antony Gormley, Making Space, Gateshead, Baltic, pp. 57-76 2004 On Marc Quinn, What Turns Something into Something Else? in Marc Quinn, Flesh, Irish Museum of Modern Art, pp.xi-xiv. 2005 On Cornelia Parker, The Double Life of Objects in Cornelia Parker, Perpetual Canon, Stuttgart, Kerber Verlag, pp.72-7.
2005 Sophy Rickett, Portfolio, 41, pp.22-26.
2005 On Nigel Cooke, The Information, in Nigel Cooke, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
2006 On Bettina Von Zwehl, Primal Scene Photography, in Bettina Von Zwehl, Steidl/Photoworks
2006 On Jane and Louise Wilson, The Architecture of Life, in Jane and Louise Wilson: Sealander, Haunch of Venison, Zurich
2006 Polymorphous Perverse: Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Time Out, December 12
2007 On Loukia Alavanou, ‘Chop Chop’, in Loukia Alavanou, Haas and Fischer, Zurich
2008 On Ed Cohen, Life Painting in Ed Cohen, Jeannie Freilich Gallery, New York
2008 On Alice Anderson, Freudian Tales in Alice Anderson, Artprojex, London
2009 On Enrico David, ‘Assault on the Egg’, in Enrico David, Basel Kunstverein
2009 In Conversation with Jeff McMillan, The Possibility of an Island, Peer Gallery, London 2009 In Conversation with the Turner Prize artists, ‘Artists, art, the media and the public’, Tate Etc, 17.
2009 On Martin Creed, ‘Forms of Attachment’ in Martin Creed, ‘Works’, Thames and Hudson, London, pp.xxxvi-xli.
2010 On Antony Gormley, ‘Being a Part of It’, in Antony Gormley, ‘One and Other’, Jonathan Cape, London, pp.312-7.
2010 On Dawn Woolley, ‘Cut-Outs’, in Dawn Wooley, ‘Cut to the Measure of Desire’, Cardiff n.p.
2010 On Christian Marclay, ‘Glue’, in ‘The Clock’, White Cube, London n.p.
2010 On Anish Kapoor, ‘Turning the World Upside Down’, in ‘Turning the World Upside Down’, Serpentine Gallery.
2012 In conversation with Mark Fairnington, in Mark Fairnington, ‘Unnatural Histories’, Mannheim Kunstverein 2012 On Don Brown, ‘Don vs Yoko’, in ‘Yoko’, Other Criteria, London, pp.42-5. 2012 On Toby Ziegler, ‘Breakfast, Interrupted’, in Toby Ziegler, ‘From the Assumption of the Virgin to Widow/Orphan Control’, Koenig Books andSimon Lee Gallery, London 2013 On Andrew Grassie, ‘Looper’, The Rennie Collection, Vancouver
2013 On Vicken Parsons, ‘Emancipating Space’, in Vicken Parsons, ‘Here’, Alan Cristea Gallery, London 2014 On Gavin Turk, ‘The Blank Space’, in ‘Rachel Newsome ed ‘This is not a book about Gavin Turk’, Trolley Press, London, pp.168-72.
2014 On Andy Holden, ‘The Rock’,
2014 on Rachel Kneebone, ‘Side Effects’, in ‘399 Days’, White Cube, London
2016 On Sean Synder, ‘Aspect Ratio’, Chantal Crousel, Paris
2016 On Paulina Olowska, ‘An Inside Job’, in Paulina Olowska, ‘Ceramics’, Simon Lee Gallery, London 2016 On Darwin’s children’s marginalia, ‘Picture Piece’ in Frieze, 180, pp.160-1.
2016 On Jelena Tomasevic, ‘Life Interest’, Handel Street projects, London 2016,
2016 A Conversation with Nigel Cooke, in ‘Nigel Cooke’ Phaidon, London, pp.8-40.
2016 On Gavin Turk, ‘Winston’, in ‘Who What Where When Why’, Newport St Gallery, London.
2017 On Marc Quinn, ‘Lover’s Knot’, in ‘All about Love’, John Soane Museum, London
2017 On Andy Holden ‘Cartoon Landcsape’, Frieze, May.
2018 On Rachel Howard, ‘Contact’, in ‘Rachel Howard’, London, Blain Southern, np.
2019 On Jeff McMillan, Frieze, February, https://frieze.com/article/darian-leader-jeff-mcmillans-possibility-island
2019 ‘Bacon and the Body’ in Martin Harrison ed, ‘Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psychology’, London, The Estate of Francis Bacon.
2019 ‘Revisiting the Mirror Phase’ in Benjamin Ware ed, ‘Bacon, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis’, London, The Estate of Francis Bacon.
2020 On Baselitz, ‘Digging Deeper’, in , ‘Georg Baselitz, Darkness Golden’, London, White Cube, 2020, np.

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