Those who teach and research Sir Gawain and the Green Knight will be interested in this fantastic research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem. They're also looking for contributors, so do get in contact with @michaeledenart.bsky.social! 👇

My PhD thesis is cited in Wyndham Lewis: Modernism and the New Radical Right by Luke Gilfedder a few times, he takes issue but represents me accurately, your in there too @malrog.bsky.social I try to expose Lewis's anti temporal sympathy by applying your ideas so I have dragged you into this fight!

This is a wonderful publication, intelligent and engaging

I'm cited here in a PhD thesis 'Feminist Horror After #MeToo: A24’s Monstrous White Women' www.proquest.com/openview/7e3... by Dr Laurel Anne Carlson

For those who may be interested ☺️ my slides and painting from my talk 'Gawain is Not a Hero' from the @themamoconf.bsky.social are available to view on the UAL research depository (no transcript as yet since its in peer review but plenty of information) ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/24...

Some of today’s drawings, pareidolia/observations from the Ashridge woods.

Some more images from MAMO conference @themamoconf.bsky.social I’m with esteemed company here, Professor Sarah Salih (KCL), Dr Josh Davies (KCL), and the wonderful Dr Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social (Oxford). Such a rich experience for me and lots of new friends made 😊

1/3: Delivering the keynote @themamoconf.bsky.social 2025 has been a wonderful (if daunting) highlight of my research activity, the painting below was made as a response to the invitation, it and the plenary were attempts to understand the women of the poem as more temporally complex figures...

The plenary talk by @michaeledenart.bsky.social at @themamoconf.bsky.social on Gawain & the Green Knight was ✨MAGNIFICENT✨ Michael’s artwork- incl his painting here, Gawain between Two Deaths- is fantastic 👏 Also, a total pleasure to chat to Michael at the conf too! 😘

My article for Trebuchet Magazine “Drawing the Unseen: Landscape as Ideological Frame and Perceptual Rupture” can be read here: www.trebuchet-magazine.com/drawing-the-...

My article Alien: Romulus and the Problematic Saviour​ is published in the iconic Foundation Journal, 150, 54.1 (spring 2025). This continues my interest in the potent, and influential, aesthetics of the Alien franchise.

I'm really looking forward to delivering a plenary at MAMO conference at Kings College London themamo.org titled 'Gawain is Not a Hero? Tensions Between the Heroic and the Complex Subject in Representations of Sir Gawain in Art'

Applications open until 25th April for our call out ‘Bodies in Process’

1/2: I had a wonderful time with @ihrmedievalism.bsky.social discussing Sir Gawain's contemporary relevance and my artistic responses to the poem, which included the painting below 'Gawain Between Two Deaths' (2025), created for the event.

The pre-print for my paper 'Time, Horror, and Iconoclasm: Creative Responses to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' is available here. amaes.fr/agregation-a...

Green Knight's Head (Point of no Return), oil on board.

Looking forward to this talk (12th Feb, booking in the link). I will discuss my art practice, and in thinking about the contemporary relevance of the poem, I take an issue with X, Richard Dawkins, Justin Welby, and the perpetrators of war crimes, www.history.ac.uk/events/faile...

My article: The Armoured Self, Un-becoming the Subject: Reading Julia Ducournau’s Titane (2021) Via Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism, is published in Modernist Cultures, Volume 19 Issue 2-3, Page 208-235, ISSN 2041-1022 www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

(Anyone speak Russian) I'm cited here in a book called 'Post-Postmodernism: How Social and Cultural Theory Explain Our Time' (2020). If anyone speaks Russian I'd love to know if I'm being given a kicking or agreed with? Either way its a citation :) books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&...

My text in @arthurianajrnl.bsky.social Representing Sir Gawain and Green Knight is cited in The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology (JCCT) Vol. 10, No. 6, pp.703-708. See chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://koreascience.kr/article/JAKO202434141758689.pdf

So looking forward to discussing a range of my artworks at the @ihrmedievalism.bsky.social early next year, 12 February 2025, 5:30PM - 7:00PM book here: sas.sym-online.com/registration... www.history.ac.uk/events/faile...

My attempt to paint what Lewis wanted as tragedy rather than triumph, his madness was to think you can make dehumanization work for you.

My portrait of Lewis 'Sir Percy The Knight of Human Resources' and 'Lady with Photocopier'. Seamus Perry's article isn't a bad contextualization for these (now that's some narcissism Lewis would have appreciated!) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

In the great Art Wars I am, in the end, a 'flux' man, with Heraclitus and Bergson all the way! Lewis, a tempting misanthropic vampire is of course 'Repelled by Bergsonian flux', to understand his thought really recalls Gandalf refusing to touch the one ring, www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Lewis is compelling in his desperation to impose his project and establish a hierarchy in which the artist is at the apex, above even the 'action-man tragic heroes' that move history along, for Lewis the artist should be a ruthless cultural mediator. Tempting... www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Green Knight’s head (die cast) (2024). Oil on board

The conference Tradition and Innovation in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, at Université de Lorraine (Nancy) was brilliant, Nancy is beautiful and the organisers were welcoming and riveting! #agrégation #medievalsky

Travelling to Nancy to give a talk on creative responses to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and what they amount to ‘Time Horror and Iconoclasm’ where I’ll argue, among other things, that when the Green Knight commands Gawain to ‘abide’ he’s encouraging a renegotiation of the symbolic and the real

Head of Green Knight (no point of view) (2024) Oil on board.

Happy Friday! Need a little reading? Film Int'l has Michael Eden on übermensches in MANDY, Matthew Sorrento on THE AMUSEMENT PARK as Romero nightmare & Angela Grisolano on "Why THE THING is a Perfect Movie." Snag it via EBSCO indices. #horror www.intellectbooks.com/film-interna...

The latest issue of CINEJ Cinema Journal goes back to the Overlook Hotel w/Özge Onay's essay on Kubrick and THE SHINING while Michael Eden sees the socio-political implications of our favorite dancing doppelgänger robot princess, M3GAN. #openaccess cinej.pitt.edu/ojs/cinej/is...