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Flash-fiction text for Typewronger’s Wrong Directions Autumn 2023 publication – published September 2023
The Sitoot Bench – For Your Own Special Place
Contextual text for Beautiful Materials website – published November 2022
Sharing lives and visions in sculpture: William Lamb and Adam Christie
Story text for Art UK website – published December 2021
Contextual essay for Beautiful Materials Gallery / Portable Retrospective book, Beautiful Materials Design Studio, Glasgow – published September 2021
Survey text for Art Fund’s Art Quarterly Winter 2019 magazine – published December 2019
Life of Leisure: Tales From the On the Ground Fixer
Reflective text written from my viewpoint as producer for Martin Parr’s Aberdeen at Leisure project zine for Aberdeen Art Gallery – published October 2019
An Artist Makes a Village
You, Me and Them
These two short creative nonfiction texts explored personal experiences and connections with art, nature, history and context. They were included in my text and image posters for the Gray’s Fine Art Staff exhibition – presented March 2016
This was a short 500 word creative nonfiction exercise in relating the past with the present by way of personal experience and contemporary art – unpublished 2013
Link to OpenAIR @RGU / Iain Irving MPhil thesis – June 2013
This text was written for the Hurricane Lamb at Duff House exhibition catalogue, edited by Michael Agnew – published 2011
Seeing the Value in Something and Someone
This text was written for the Gemuce/Money Crunch project catalogue, Deveron Arts, Huntly – published 2010
This text was an exercise in hypothetical exhibition making in a tricky environment – unpublished 2009
Iain Irving 