On this blog I mostly write about museums, although in the archives you’ll also find writing about art and art history.
I work as Museums Researcher on the AHRC-funded project UK Museums during the COVID-19 crisis: Assessing risk, closure, and resilience at Birkbeck, that runs from 2021 to 2022. Before that I worked on Birkbeck’s Mapping Museums project between 2017 and 2021.
I completed my PhD on the histories of closed museums in June 2022. Before that I completed an MA in art history and museum studies at Birkbeck, and previously trained as a painter at the City and Guilds of London Art School. My paintings and prints are in a number of private collections and I have also worked to commission.
Publications
Mark Liebenrood and Alex Taylor, ‘Interview as Assemblage’, in Alex Taylor (ed.), In Focus: Black Wall 1959 by Louise Nevelson, Tate Research Publication, 2016, http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/in-focus/black-wall-louise-nevelson/interview-as-assemblage
Blogs elsewhere
A week in the life (of a research assistant)
Serendipities of online community
Exhibitions
2015: Monochrome, Brent Artists Resource Gallery, London; The Manifesto of the Wall, Fringe Arts Bath
2014: Stars on Canvas 2014, London; Recursive, No Format Gallery, London; A Given Structure, Fringe Arts Bath
2013: Art auction in aid of Emily Baldwin (Green Horse Art)
2012: Exhibition in aid of The Human Dignity Trust, Hogan Lovells, London; Living with Art, Frameless Gallery, London; Artworks Open 2012, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London; Degree Show, City & Guilds of London Art School
2011: Thirty Seven, Parr Street, London
2010: Vault, Lambeth Accord, London
Awards
Interface and Turner Contemporary Bursary (2012)
Writings
Links to reviews of exhibitions and books on other websites:
Review, ‘Lygia Clark‘
Review, ‘Channa Horwitz‘
Review, ‘Alex Gene Morrison: Same As It Ever Was‘
Review, ‘Mondrian and Colour‘
Review, ‘James Turrell‘
Review, ‘Ana Mendieta‘
Review, ‘Central Line Series: Art on the Underground‘
Review, ‘Rothko/Sugimoto‘
Review, ‘Craigie Aitchison‘
Review, ‘Michael Raedecker: volume‘ (published in a-n magazine, May 2012)
Review, ‘Turner and the Elements‘ (published in a-n magazine, May 2012)