Clare Farrow, Articles, Books, Lectures, Interviews & Editorial. Art, Architecture, Design, History, Biography & Fiction
A Selection
2025:
‘Charlotte Perriand: A Fearless Vision’, Profile Feature, Never Too Small magazine (upcoming)
“Paper Clouds: Materiality in Empty Space”, Japan Pavilion, London Design Biennale, Exhibition Intro. & Narrative, Interviews & Exhibition Publication
‘Design Materiality’, Inside Out Lecture Series, Royal College of Art Lecture, London, March 2025
2024:
‘Paper Sanctuary” by Shigeru Ban, Exhibition Intro. for Publication in Japan (Touring Japan, in Japanese & English)
‘Mid Century Multifunction’, Never Too Small magazine (02), pp 192-199
‘Bubble or Box: Small Spaces in the City’, Copenhagen Lecture, May 2024
2023:
“Small Spaces in the City: Rethinking Inside the Box”, Exhibition Intro. & Narrative, Interviews & Exhibition Publication, Talk Events
“Paper Sanctuary: Poetry & Pragmatism for Ukrainian Refugees”, Humanitarian Pavilion by Shigeru Ban, London Design Biennale, with Svetlana Lavochkina, Vincent Haiges and Valentin Silvestrov, Exhibition Intro. & Narrative Text, Lecture by Shigeru Ban, King’s College
2022:
“Reinventing Texture”, 72 pp Publication with Handmade (Limited Edition) Washi Paper Cover, Essays by Toshiki Hirano & Clare Farrow, & Interviews by Clare Farrow, Supported by Japan Foundation, Edited by Clare Farrow Studio
“The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art” by Gregory Sholette, Editor, Lund Humphries
2021:
“Bamboo Ring: Weaving a Symphony of Lightness & Form” by Kengo Kuma, Milan Design Week with Interni magazine and London Design Festival, Panel Speaker
“Reinventing Texture” by Toshiki Hirano, Japan Pavilion, London Design Biennale, Exhibition Concept, Intro. & Narrative, Limited Edition Prints by Toshiki Hirano
‘Blurring Boundaries in Interior Design’, Roca Gallery, 22 March 2021
2020:
MSCTY Expo 1, “Unknown Pleasures”, London Design Festival, Digital Exhibition Co-Curated with Nick Luscombe, Exhibition Concept & Interviews with Architects & Composers
MSCTY Expo 1, “Unknown Pleasures”, ‘Sound in Time and Step with Architectural Space’, Essay by Clare Farrow
Dorothea Tanning by Victoria Corruthers, Editor, Lund Humphries
2019:
‘Pärt of the Landscape’, Blueprint magazine, Article on the new Arvo Pärt Centre by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
“Bamboo Ring: Weaving into Lightness” by Kengo Kuma, London Design Festival at the V&A, Exhibition Concept, Intro. & Narrative Text
Introductory Speaker for Lecture by Shigeru Ban, “Architecture and Humanitarian Work”, Roca Barcelona Gallery, to coincide with “Timber Rising” Exhibition in Barcelona
Interviews with Kengo Kuma and Nieto Sobejano for Bauhaus Edition, Blueprint magazine, no.365
2018:
“Memory & Light” by Arvo Pärt & Arup, Norfolk House Music Room, V&A, London Design Festival, Exhibition Concept, Intro. & Narrative Text
“Timber Rising: Vertical Visions for the Cities of Tomorrow”, Roca London Gallery, Co-Written (with Eva Woode) Intro. & Narrative Text, Interviews for Exhibition Publication & Editing
“If urban densification is inevitable, then let it be done with a material that makes us happy”, Feature Article, Dezeen, 9 Feb. 2018
2017:
“Memory and My Design” with Kengo Kuma and Heatherwick Studio, Curator & Speaker, London Festival of Architecture, Roca London Gallery
Case Studies, Claudio Silvestrin Architects
2016:
“Childhood ReCollections: Memory in Design”, Roca Barcelona Gallery, Expanded Exhibition Concept, Intro., Interviews, Narrative Text & Exhibition Catalogue (Catalan, Spanish & English)
Lina Bo Bardi: Together, Exhibition Curated by Noemí Blager, Writer & Editor
2015:
“Childhood ReCollections: Memory in Design”, Roca London Gallery, Exhibition Concept, Intro., Interviews, Narrative Text & Exhibition Catalogue (English)
2014:
‘Pure Folly: a new generation of artistic architecture’, Feature Article, Blueprint, 17 June 2014
‘Shigeru Ban’, Feature Article, ‘Mastery’ Issue, Omega magazine
2013:
‘House of Card: Shigeru Ban’s Christchurch Cathedral’, Cover Feature Article, Blueprint, 21 Aug. 2013, Reprint of #326
‘Kengo Kuma: Sharing the Same Shadows’, Feature Article, Blueprint, 11 Nov. 2013
“Julian Trevelyan: Picture Language” by Philip Trevelyan, Editor, Lund Humphries
2010-12:
London Olympic Velodrome, Interview Feature, Blueprint, 2012
RIBA Sustainability Hub, Interview Features including Shigeru Ban on Sustainability, Fiorenzo Omenetto (MIT) on “Silkworms may hold the key to sustainable materials in architecture”, and Dartington Schumacher College on Sustainability
2006-10:
“The Nightingale”, Play Scriptwriter, Theatre & Music Performance, Petersham Festival, London 2009
“Little Leap Forward”, Play Scriptwriter, Horse + Bamboo Theatre, UK Tour 2009
“Little Leap Forward: A Boy in Beijing”, Illustrated Children’s Novel, Co-Author with Guo Yue, Barefoot Books, 2008 & 2011, Gold Medal Moonbeam Awards 2008, Gold Nautilus Book Award 2010
“Music, Food and Love: A Memoir with Recipes”, Co-Author with Guo Yue, Piatkus / Little, Brown, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2012 & 2014 (English, Spanish, French & Korean editions)
“Nomadic Felts: Artistic Traditions in World Cultures” and “Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler”, Book & Catalogue Editor & Picture Researcher, British Museum Press & The British Museum, 2009
“Ann Stokes: Artist’s Potter” by Tanya Harrod, Book Editor, Lund Humphries 2009
“Barbara Rae” by Bill Hare, Andrew Lambirth & Gareth Wardell, Book Editor, Lund Humphries, 2008
“William Crozier” by Katherine Crouan, S.B. Kennedy & Philip Vann, Book Editor, Lund Humphries, 2007
“Eye Claudio: The Work of Claudio Silvestrin”, Preface Author, Case Study Writer & Editor, Claudio Silvestrin Architects, 2006
Claudio Silvestrin Architects, Writer & Editorial Consultant, 2005-10
1989-1996:
“Wolfgang Laib: A Journey”, Book Author, Edition Cantz, Germany, 1996
‘Wolfgang Laib’, Author, Exhibition Catalogue, The Henry Moore Foundation, Halifax & Camden Arts Centre, London 1994
‘Wolfgang Laib’, Parkett magazine, New York, 1994
“A Perfect Shot: Dance Photography by Annie Leibovitz", Lecture at The National Portrait Gallery to coincide with retrospective (from 1970s), 1994
“Joseph Kosuth and Felix González-Torres”, Exhibition Catalogue, Camden Arts Centre & Academy Editions, London, 1993
Interview Features on Wolfgang Laib and James Turrell, ‘Environmental Art’ issue, Art & Design, 1993
‘Parallel Structures: Art, Dance & Music’, Concept, Guest Editor & Writer (Interview Features including Anish Kapoor, Robert Ryman, Annie Leibovitz), Art & Design, 1993
Interviews with Giuseppe Panza and Joseph Kosuth, “New Museology” issue, Writer & Editor, Art & Design, 1991
New Art, Anthology of Interviews & Writings, Co-Editor, Academy Editions, 1991
Interview with Robert Rosenblum, “New Art International”, Art & Design, Editor, Academy Editions, 1990
“Claudio Silvestrin, Architect”, Feature Writer, Architectural Design, 1990
Interviews with Robert Rosenblum and Daniel Buren, “New York, New Art” issue, Editor & Writer, Art & Design, 1990
Interviews with Robert Rosenblum and Leo Castelli, “Aspects of Modern Art” issue, Writer & Editor, Art & Design, 1989
Interview with Rainer Fetting, “German Art Now”, Writer & Editor, Art & Design, 1989, reprinted in Exhibition Catalogue, East Berlin 1990
Interview with Richard Meier, “Collages”, Architectural Design, 1989, reprinted in Book & Exhibition Catalogue by Lois E. Nesbitt, October Gallery & Academy Editions, 1990
Humanism in Renaissance Scotland, Book Chapter, Co-Author with Professor Martin Kemp, 1989
