Main interests

contemporary photography, video and sculpture, linguistics and meaning systems (especially maps), intersection between the digital and real worlds, liminality and hybridity, Australian Aboriginal art

tribal art, body art, queer and abject art, conceptual art and minimalism, artist's books and the impact of material and technology on conception and expression

Things I particularly like

Any artist shown by James Dorahy (his eye is unfaltering)

Rachel Whiteread

Ai Weiwei

Daniel Mudie Cunningham is a great curator

Karen Holt's drawings

James Turrell

Cy Twombly

Guillermo Kuitca

Kika Nicolela's video work

Keith Climpson's paintings and works on paper

Sotheby's private views

Bruce Naumann

Donald Judd

Daniel Dorall

George Grosz

The Sandler brothers' video work

Sung dynasty ceramics and calligraphy

Die Neue Saclichkeit

Roger Ballen

The Northern German renaissance

Simon Gush's work

Scott Redford's Clown Fuck Punk

Felix Gonzalez-Torres - no explanation required

The Bechers and their progeny (Gursky, Ruff, Struth, Hofer)

Papunya Tula

The Nashers

Michael Meads's Eastaboga (mostly destroyed by Hurricane Katrina)

Brandon Herman

Dorothy Napangardi Robinson

Idris Khan

Michael Bowdidge