Jack Smurthwaite is a curator, writer and content designer based in London. Selected projects are below.
Dannielle Braithwaite-Shirley: She Keeps Me Damn Alive, Arebyte. [for Art Monthly]
Exhibition review in Art Monthly 453: February 2022
Look Again by Tate. Gender by Travis Alabanza. Empire by Afua Hirsch. Class by Nathalie Olah. Feminism by Bernadine Evaristo. [for Art Monthly]
Book review in Art Monthly 455: April 2022.
Giving Bodies Back to Data – Image Makers, Bricolage, and Reinvention in Magnetic Resonance by Silvia Casini [for Art Monthly]
Book review in Art Monthly 454: March 2022
Off Site Project – Google Maps [Curator] in Residence
Off Site Project. 01/08/2021 – 31/10/2021 Tamara Kametani | Tabita Rezaire | Soyoung Chung | Léa Porré | Caline Aoun | Hannah Rowan | Bob Bicknell-Knight | David Blandy | Nye Thompson | Mel Galley | Liliana Farber | Liam Young | Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg | Cassie McQuater |Elvia Wilk
Conversations on Violence: An Anthology edited by Brad Evans and Adrian Parr [for Art Monthly]
Book review in Art Monthly 446
Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth by Matthew Fuller and Eyal Weizman [for Art Monthly]
Book review in Art Monthly 449 September 2021
From space, the planet is blue. From space, the planet is the territory.
Sluice Project Space, Hackney, 10/02/2018 – 18/02/2018 Caline Aoun | Dmitiri Galitzine | Tamara Kametani
Asparagus Zine. Issue 2
Projected Histories
Fringe Arts Bath, 26 May – 11 June 2017 Clare Robertson | Edward Rowe | Neale Willis | Sarah Crew | Vishal Kumaraswamy | Samuel Morgan Co-curated with Patrick Creedon
At the western edge, with Atlas
Exhibition text for Aimée Parrott: Gaia’s Kidney, Broadway Gallery, 17 October – 29 November 2020
k-punk by Mark Fisher [for Art Monthly]
Book review in Art Monthly 422 and Resonance FM Art Monthly talk show
To cite a body
Sluice HQ, Hackney. 12/01/2019 – 02/02/2019 Bob Bicknell-Knight | Yoshi Kametani | Keiken and George Jasper Stone| Mark Aerial Waller | Vivien Zhang
Out of Space.
AVD Gallery, 01/11/2018 – 30/11/2018 Ololade Adeniyi | Juan Covelli | Ed Florance
Benedict Drew: Trapped in a sticky shed with side chain compression, iMT Gallery [for Frieze]
Exhibition review for Frieze.com
Leah Capaldi | Overlay (2015)
ICA, 27/08/2015 Leah Capaldi x Isa Genzken
WLTHF Meretseger or similar snake headed woman
Exhibition text for Sarah Derat: She Who Loves Silence, Castor Projects, 21 June – 27 July
Survival Strategies: Mycorrhiza and Extancy
Guest-edited issue of Sluice Magazine Autumn 2019
Art and Postcapitalism: Aesthetic Labour, Automation and Value Production by Dave Beech [for Art Monthly]
Book review in Art Monthly 430
Francis Bacon’s Private Wrestling Match
London College of Fashion, 12/03/2016
Portrait by Bo Matteini
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