Dr Edwin Coomasaru

Peer Review Journals

• 'Art Histories of Corporate Imperialism and Racial Capitalism' (book review), Oxford Art Journal (forthcoming).
• ‘Brexit and the Occult: Gendered Ghosts of Empire in Project O’s Saved and Rita Duffy’s Soften the Border’, Third Text, Volume 35, Issue 3 (forthcoming July 2021).
• ‘Brexit's Supernatural Borderlands’, British Art Studies, Issue 20 (July 2021).
• ‘Uncontrollable Intimacies: Masculinity, Masturbation and Martyrdom in Steve McQueen’s Hunger’, The Irish Review, Volume 55 (2020), pp.67-82.
• ‘From Millbank Prison to Tate Britain: British Values and Steve McQueen’s Year 3’ (exhibition review), immediations, Issue 17 (2020), pp.161-163.
• ‘From Armed Struggle to Political Struggle: Republican Tradition and Transformation in Northern Ireland’ (book review), Irish Studies Review, Volume 24, Issue 3 (August 2016), pp.373-375.

​Book Chapters

• ‘Brexit, Gender and Northern Ireland’s Supernatural Landscape: Ursula Burke’s A False Dawn and Candida Powell-Williams’ Command Lines’, in Sophie Mesplède and Charlotte Gould eds., British Art and the Environment: Changes, Challenges and Responses post-1750 (London: Routledge, 2021), pp.213-228.

Catalogue Essays

• ‘Taking Back Control? Photography and Fantasies of Male Order’, in Alona Pardo ed., Masculinities: Liberation through Photography (London: Barbican Centre, 2020), pp.27-33.
• ‘Queer Life and Kinship: Anthony Luvera’s Let Us Eat Cake’, in Anthony Luvera ed., Let Us Eat Cake (Belfast: Belfast Exposed, 2017), pp.23-27.

Art Criticism

• ‘Can Art History Be Decolonised?’, The Cambridge Humanities Review, Issue 17 (2021), pp.91-103.
• ‘William Lakin: Five Minutes After Birth‘, Source Magazine, Issue 103 (Winter 2020), pp.40-49.
• ‘Facemask art and pandemic politics’, Burlington Contemporary (6 August 2020).
• ‘Camera man: race, class, and British masculinity’, The Architectural Review (March 2020), pp.40-45.
• ‘Brexit politics and feminist prophecies: Candida Powell-Williams’s tarot deck’, Burlington Contemporary (18 December 2019).
• ‘Could Brexit spark an English civil war?’, The Irish Times (28 October 2019).
• ‘Magical thinking: Is Brexit an occult phenomenon?’, The Irish Times (18 February 2019).
• ‘Is Brexit the apocalypse?’, The Irish Times (28 November 2018).
• ‘Is the London fatberg a metaphor for Brexit?’, The Irish Times (18 April 2018).
• ‘Performing Sexuality and Sectarianism: Mariah Garnett’s Other & Father (2015)’, Photoworks, Issue 24 (2017), pp.72-83.
• ‘Silent Grace and women’s hands: arming female militancy’, The Irish Times (1 September 2017).
• ‘Northern Irish art: paintings and politics’, Art UK (18 July 2017).
• ‘Emaciating machismo: masculinity, murals and memorialising hunger strikes’, The Irish Times (5 May 2016).

Media Interviews

• Thomas Kingsley, ‘‘It’s our heritage’: Londoners divided over Windrush monument’, The Independent (6 October 2021).
• Matthew Caines, ‘Tech talk: Edwin Coomasaru, director, International New Media Gallery’, The Guardian (23 September 2014).