I’m the author of Counter-Texts: Language in Contemporary Art. I’ve taught art writing, theory, and art history at the University of Victoria, the University of Alberta, and Emily Carr University of Art and Design. In 2024, I am a Visiting Professor at UniArts, Helsinki. I have been a reviewer for frieze, Art Review, and i-D and published criticism in C Magazine, and fillip, amongst other publications. My poetry and creative nonfiction have won prizes from the Banff Centre for the Arts, Prairie Fire, and Room. I hold a PhD from the Royal College of Art, an MA from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA from McGill University, Montreal. I’ve been a research fellow at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and my work has been supported by the Canada Council for Art, the British Columbia Arts Council, the European Cultural Foundation, and Arts Council England. Across genres, my work explores written language as a tool of power, oppression, and liberation, mainly as it is used in visual art.

I was born in Nottingham, England to an English mother and Indian father and raised in a small town in Canada. I live on the traditional and unceded territory of the Malahat and W̱SÁNEĆ nations on Vancouver Island with my husband and three children. In my free time, I run on trails and try to swim a kilometre a day.

From 2012 to 2017, I collaborated with Andrea Francke on the project Invisible Spaces of Parenthood, which included exhibitions and events at the Showroom, the Serpentine, the Whitechapel, and CCA Glasgow and Glasgow Women’s Library, exploring the visibility of parents in art infrastructures and legacies of second-wave feminism.