Prose

‘Landlocked’, The Clearing (December 2021) – an essay about searching for signs of the sea in south Manchester

‘The Absent Library’, The Pilgrimages (May 2020) – reflective piece about the books left behind during the first lockdown

‘”A deeply textured trove of learning and reference”: The Gift of David Jones’, Marginalia at the LA Review of Books (March 2016) – a review-essay of the catalogue for the David Jones exhibition at Pallant House Gallery

‘The Secret Autobiography of my PhD’, Still Point Journal (February 2015)

‘A Needle Walks into a Haystack’, The Learned Pig (October 2014) – review-essay in response to the Liverpool Biennial

‘The Story of a Single Rock’, The Learned Pig (June 2014) – review-essay in response to SNAP Art at the Aldeburgh Festival

‘On every corner, at dusk, a preacher’, The Pilgrimages (January 2014) – reflective piece on a trip to the Valle de Elqui in Chile

‘Gloria and getting gloriously old: Interview with Director Sebastian Lelio’, originally published with Revista Revolver: The Santiago Magazine (July 2013)

‘Art as Prism: Interview with Conrad Ventur’, Garageland 15: Collaboration (April 2013)

‘On water and Venice‘, The Pilgrimages (March 2013)

‘The Cinematic Event’, Garageland 14: Still (September 2012)

From 2012-13 I conducted a number of interviews with artists and curators for roves and roams, a Reading based arts organisation. Some highlights include interviews with Aaron Angell, Dexter Dymoke, Roxie Warder and Natasha Hoare for The Cob Gallery, Robert Luzar, and Alex Lewis and Edward Wallace.

From 2012-13 I was an arts and culture reviewer at The Hackney Citizen. You can find the archive of those articles here: https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/tag/francesca-brooks/