• Fulgur: Magic Art - image rights

    2024

    I led on image rights for the first English language publication of Andre Breton's Magic Art, working with galleries, artists, estates and agencies to secure image rights and files for this major print reproduction.

  • The Folk Archive - contributing writer

    2023

    I wrote about herbs and herbal medicine as a form of quiet resistance for the second issue of Lally MacBeth’s journal, The Folk Review.

  • Hospital Rooms, Torbay Hospital - essay

    2022

    Contemporary art and mental health charity Hospital Rooms commissioned me to write the catalogue essay for their 2022 project at Torbay Hospital.

    Artists included: Samuel Bassett, Jacqui Hallum, Simon Ripley, Tanoa Sasraku, Huhtamaki Wab, Cass Agazzi Brooks, Andy Harper, Amy McCarthy, Ged Quinn, Anna Chrystal Stephens, Catherine Cartwright, Max Eastley, Tom Hammick, Mark Jessett and Katy Richardson.

  • Paradigms, Look Again - commission

    2021

    My exploratory work, ‘GHOST LINES’ for British Art Show 9 adjunct exhibition, Paradigms, navigates Plymouth and Aberdeen as coastal communities through folklore and relics of industry in their land and seascapes.

    The text was published in a limited risograph publication. Commissioned by Rachel Grant/Fertile Ground.

  • Mohini Chandra: Paradise Lost - catalogue

    2020-21

    I worked with artist Mohini Chandra and graphic designer Johanne Lian Olsen to produce the exhibition catalogue for Chandra’s work Paradise Lost.

  • Broccoli magazine - contributing writer

    2018-20

    My writing for Broccoli (both pitched and commissioned) includes features on surrealist artists Maruja Mallo and Leonora Carrington as well as an article for their film club feature.

  • Suspira magazine - contributing writer

    2019

    I wrote about funny vampire for Valentina Egoavil Medina’s award-winning Suspira magazine.

  • Seeking the Marvellous symposium - Conference assistant / coordinator

    2018

    At a pivotal time of renewed interest in formerly overlooked artists such as Leonora Carrington and Leonor Fini, I co-organised this event examining Ithell Colquhoun, British women artists and Surrealism.

    Keynote speakers included Amy Hale, Susan Aberth and Victoria Ferentinou alongside Tate archivist Adrian Glew, journalist Joanna Moorhead and curator Laura Smith. With support from Fulgur Press.

  • Elephant magazine - contributing writer

    2017

    I reviewed This Drove my Mother up the Wall, Katharina Grosse’s first solo exhibition in London at South London Gallery in Peckham for Elephant magazine.

 
 

A Spirit in Place

A Spirit in Place (2018) is a documentary film I made with Russell Cleave that responds to the connection between magic and place intrinsic to British surrealist artist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun’s lifelong work.

Recalling stories of magic, myth, ritual, activism and history, Jo O’Cleirigh tells his story – a tale inextricably tied to Lamorna Valley, the place in which Colquhoun lived and worked for almost 40 years.

Director: Tilly Craig / DOP & Editor: Russell Cleave.
Produced for Seeking The Marvellous symposium, Plymouth College of Art. Featured in Screenworks film journal.