• Hospital Rooms, Torbay Hospital project

    Writing commission for catalogue, 2022

  • Paradigms - Look Again gallery

    Writing commission for British Art Show 9 adjunct exhibition, 2021

    My exploratory work, ‘GHOST LINES’ navigates Plymouth and Aberdeen as coastal communities through folklore and relics of industry in their land and seascapes.

    Text published in a limited risograph publication. Commissioned by Rachel Grant/Fertile Ground.

  • Paradise Lost // Mohini Chandra

    Publication producer & editor, 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.

    In collaboration with The SHIPS Project, supported by Arts Council England and MIRROR gallery at Plymouth College of Art.

  • Broccoli magazine

    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

    Writer, 2019

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

  • Seeking the Marvellous symposium

    Conference assistant / coordinator, 2018

    Working alongside Judith Noble, Head of Research at Plymouth College of Art, I co-organised this event examining Ithell Colquhoun, British women artists and Surrealism.

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

  • Elephant magazine

    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.