Writing
2026
Lauretta Morton OAM, Miriam Kelly, Peter Johnson (eds), The Mordant Family Gift: Newcastle Art Gallery Collection, Newcastle Art Gallery, Australia, Newcastle, 2026
2025
Lauretta Morton OAM, Miriam Kelly, Peter Johnson (eds), Iconic Loved Unexpected: Newcastle Art Gallery Collection, Newcastle Art Gallery, Australia and Hayman Ink, Newcastle and Melbourne, 2025
2023
Frances Barrett, Peter Johnson & Melissa Ratliff (2023) ‘Queer Curatorial Relations: A Dialogue on Five Recent Projects’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 23:1, 61-79, DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2023.2218903
2022
Contributor and assistant editor to: Hetti Perkins (ed.), 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony, digital exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Australia, 2022, available at https://publications.nga.gov.au/ceremony
2021
‘Joel Bray’, Artonview, Spring 2021, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2021, pp. 42-43, available at https://issuu.com/nationalgalleryofaustralia/docs/artonview_spring2021
‘Slipping through the veil’ [interview with Sarah Lucas], Artonview, Winter 2021, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2021, pp. 20-25, available at https://nga.gov.au/stories-ideas/slipping-through-the-veil/
2020
‘Introduction’, in David Charles Collins, Hiraeth [artist book], 2020, Sydney.
‘Xu Zhen: A study of balance and contradiction’, The Canberra Times, 21 March 2020, available at https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6685669/a-study-of-balance-and-contradiction/
‘Balance and contradiction: in conversation with Xu Zhen’, National Gallery of Australia, 17 March 2020, available at https://medium.com/national-gallery-of-australia/balance-and-contradiction-in-conversation-with-xu-zhen-8095d1ec76c
‘Exhibition by Chinese artist Xu Zhen opens at National Gallery of Australia’, The Australian, 12 March 2020, available at https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/exhibition-by-chinese-artist-xu-zhen-opens-at-national-gallery-of-australia/news-story/08ee79eeea47a5fafd747e54b3b28b54?btr=5a84ea3401894319802bf42d13c0d72d
2019
‘XU ZHEN®’ with (Lucie Folan), Artonview, Summer 100, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2019, pp. 46-49
‘James Barth and Spencer Harvie - ZONWEE: The last known recording of a daydream’ [exhibition essay], Boxcopy, Brisbane, November 2019
‘Root Heave: Mitchel Cumming’, in Mitch Cairns (ed.), Primavera 2019: Young Australian Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2019, pp. 13-15
‘In Character’ [exhibition essay], Verge Gallery, University of Sydney, August 2019
‘Impact Strength: On the outcomes of socially engaged art’, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, August 2019, available at https://www.mca.com.au/stories-and-ideas/impact-strength-outcomes-socially-engaged-art/
‘Liam Benson’s new Jackson Bella Room Commission’, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, June 2019, available at https://www.mca.com.au/stories-and-ideas/liam-bensons-new-jackson-bella-room-commission/
‘Pop and longing: Claudia Nicholson’s 2019 Vivid Light commission’, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, May 2019, available at https://www.mca.com.au/stories-and-ideas/pop-and-longing-claudia-nicholsons-2019-vivid-light-commission/
‘Moogahlin Performing Arts, manuwi jam ya murong (footprints in the sand), 2018’, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, February 2019, available at https://www.mca.com.au/c3west/blacktown-native-institution-project-2018/moogahlin-performing-arts-manuwi-jam-ya-murong-footprints-sand-2018/
‘Sharyn Egan, Flannel Flowers, 2018’, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, February 2019, available at https://www.mca.com.au/c3west/blacktown-native-institution-project-2018/sharyn-egan-flannel-flowers-2018/
2018
‘Dean Cross, Pilot, 2018’, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, September 2018, available at https://www.mca.com.au/c3west/mount-druitt-project/dean-cross-pilot-2018/
‘Hannah Brontë, Mount Druitt Block Party, 2018’, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, September 2018, available at https://www.mca.com.au/c3west/mount-druitt-project/hannah-bront%C3%AB-mount-druitt-block-party-2018/
‘In Conversation: Food Heroes', in Anne Loxley (ed.), Food Fight: The Battle for Food Security, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2018, pp. 61-65
2017
‘C3West Archive', in Blair French and Anne Loxley (eds), Civic Actions: Artists' Practices Beyond the Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2017, pp. 160 - 223
2016
‘Steven Cybulka’, in Emily Cormack (ed.), Primavera 2016: Young Australian Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2016, p. 41
‘Grant Stevens', in Natasha Bullock (ed.), MCA Collection Handbook, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2016, pp. 326-27, available at https://www.mca.com.au/collection/artists/grant-stevens/
‘John Barbour', in Natasha Bullock (ed.), MCA Collection Handbook, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2016, pp. 52-53, available at https://www.mca.com.au/collection/artists/john-barbour/
The Fraud Complex, exhibition catalogue, Next Wave, Melbourne, 2016 [PDF | website]
‘Ctrl+V: Artists working in a post-copyright age', in Tristan Chant (ed.), Voice of the Artist, Copyright Agency | Viscopy, 2016
‘James Little: Big in Japan' [exhibition essay], FW16, Artereal Gallery, Rozelle, 2016, available at http://artereal.com.au/exhibition/fw16/ [read]
‘Karla Dickens, Never Forgotten, 2015', Blacktown Native Institution Project, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, February 2016, available at https://www.mca.com.au/c3west/blacktown-native-institution/karla-dickens-never-forgotten/
‘Leanne Tobin, It Starts Here Now, 2015', Blacktown Native Institution Project, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, February 2016, available at https://www.mca.com.au/c3west/blacktown-native-institution/leanne-tobin-it-starts-here-now/
‘Steven Russell and Kristine Stewart, Eel traps, 2015', Blacktown Native Institution Project, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, February 2016, available at https://www.mca.com.au/c3west/blacktown-native-institution/kristine-stewart-steven-russell-eel-traps/
‘Karla Dickens and Leanne Tobin, Waratah Medicine at Blacks' Town, 2014’, Blacktown Native Institution Project, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, February 2016, available at https://www.mca.com.au/c3west/blacktown-native-institution/karla-dickens-leanne-tobin-waratah-medicine-bl/
2015
‘Memories of Transforma' (with Megan Monte), in Anne Loxley (ed.), Michel Tuffery: Transforma, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2015, available at https://www.mca.com.au/stories-and-ideas/memories-transforma/
The Future's Knot, exhibition catalogue, Critical Animals and The Lock-Up, Newcastle, 2015 [PDF]
‘Reflecting on the Blacktown Native Institution Artist Camps', Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 12 May 2015
2012
'Suburbanest' [exhibition essay], Paper Plane Gallery, Rozelle, 2012
What We Watch: net and surveillance, exhibition catalogue, University of New South Wales Art & Design, Sydney, 2012
‘The Emergence of Loss', Artwrite 48, University of New South Wales Art & Design, Sydney, 2012
Process Emergent 2, exhibition catalogue, At the Vanishing Point, Sydney, 2012 [Download PDF]