Laura Robertson
@doublenegativel.bsky.social
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Critic. Writer. Editor. Lecturer. Writing about art, teaching others how to write about art. Scouser, RCA alum, cofounder @TheDoubleNegative.co.uk. Freelance critic for BBC, Art Monthly etc.🌱💀🍄🦇😼 laurarobertsoniswriting.cargo.site thedoublenegative.co.uk
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EXCELLENT NEWS. I signed a contract today with Tate Publishing!

Aimed at the general reader and gallery-goer alike, NIGHT delves into the nocturnal themes of slumber, revelry, death, epiphany, creativity and rebirth.

More: laurarobertsoniswriting.cargo.site/NIGHT-new-bo...

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Applications for the 2026-2027 Representing Wales programme are now open!
Closing date: 5.00pm, Tuesday 11 November 2025.
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Representing Wales 2026-2027 - Literature Wales
Representing Wales 2026-2027 Applications for the 2026-2027 Representing Wales programme are now open!   Closing date: 5.00pm, Tuesday 11 November 2025. Literature Wales staff will be available to ans...
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Draught is now live!
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Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade
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It'll be the first adult book acquisition for editor Nicola Hands, and my first book with an international press.

I'm still pinching myself!!!

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Released in time for Halloween 2027, NIGHT will be a luxurious hardback trade book, including approximately 150 Tate archive and collection works from international artists who are haunted by, and moved by, the night.

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It's taken five years to learn how to write a book proposal whilst juggling various academic and freelance jobs. I'm absolutely over the moon that I'll see my own book, my name, in bookshops all over the world (yes, Waterstones too!).

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doublenegativel.bsky.social
EXCELLENT NEWS. I signed a contract today with Tate Publishing!

Aimed at the general reader and gallery-goer alike, NIGHT delves into the nocturnal themes of slumber, revelry, death, epiphany, creativity and rebirth.

More: laurarobertsoniswriting.cargo.site/NIGHT-new-bo...

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"I’m an emptied-out thing, scrambling forward without any sense of reason... I’m trapped in this nightmare, this flesh palace."

From the archive, read short body horror story, The Window, by @doublenegativel.bsky.social www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2021/06/john...

📷 Li Qing, The Window, 2018
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Another friend sent me more books and a friend paid for my fancy lunch (by bank transfer). I won at birthdays this year.
Two books. The Wayfarer’s Weird, a collection of uncanny and ghost stories about rambling. And Drive your plow over the bones of the dead by Olga Tokarczuk
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True true 😂 then, work it girlfriend
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You could (and it's a stunner) but I'd be a boiling sweaty mess after ten minutes in this cardi in this weather
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Comets from The Augsburg Book of Miracles, 16th century.
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More in our post "Flowers of the Sky", of depictions spanning almost a whole millennium of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #comets #meteors #shootingstars #meteorshower
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An extraordinary day spent with our new students, telling us who they are, who they want to be, and sharing their enthusiasms.

Then I turn into the night, check the news, and it’s full of violence and those who would like to use it to bring about even more.

Create spaces of care where you can.
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Bedside table: currently re/reading for/around Creature, Stranger, Monster, Other. conference in 2026. On intersectional feminism, animism, horror and folklore.
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Why have I not listened to this before? Great hearing from author Sarah Hall about her latest, Helm, and the books that informed, influenced and inspired the writing of it in various ways ▶️

BBC Radio 4 - Take Four Books, Sarah Hall share.google/sm6Hgob2hD8q...
BBC Radio 4 - Take Four Books, Sarah Hall
The writer Sarah Hall on her new novel - Helm - and its connections to three other books.
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Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller dancing at the April in Paris Ball in New York (1957)
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Stop me before I kill again
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2/2 Has made a mask out of a pancake! LOLs from the Dutch Golden Age with Godfried Schalcken.
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The 'Silent Running' little guys, acrylic on canvas, from a while ago.
#art #artsky
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"Honey wake up it's Mon-"

"NOOOOOOOOOO."

#MondayMotivation
A Kestrel clings to the side of a tree trunk, head thrown back and beak wide open in a dramatic cry, its golden eyes round with outrage and wings slightly flared…the exact expression of someone being shaken awake on a Monday morning before they’re ready.
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Just got a @shudder.com trial. Feel free to recommend stuff, horror fans. As a bit of a steer, much of my fave of the genre is by the likes of John Carpenter, Cronenberg (father and son), Dario Argento, and Ari Aster. A pretty broad spectrum. I don't love gore/torture.
a group of people are standing in a dark room surrounded by smoke .
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View from our Waterfront Lodge this week 🦭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💕 including this tiny island - saw my first crested Grebe and an assortment of Common and Atlantic Grey seals!

📍Loch Linnhe, Fort William