Caitlin Merrett King is a writer and programmer based in Glasgow. She has published writing with Sticky Fingers, MAP Magazine, Nothing Personal, Pilot Press, and Deleuzine. She has written commissioned texts for exhibitions at The Hunterian, WASPS (both Glasgow) and Cample Line (Dumfriesshire).
She graduated from MLitt Art Writing at Glasgow School of Art in 2022 and was awarded The Yellow Paper Prize for New Writing. Always Open Always Closed, her first book, was published by JOAN in July 2023.
Guston, monoprint, 2019
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ALWAYS OPEN ALWAYS CLOSED Published by JOAN Publishing
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A riotous, disaffected culture crawl across Glasgow, where there’s a craft bakery on every corner and more artists than New York’s Chelsea Hotel. Ms Real is well read and well fed, with an anxious eye for detail and a sharp tongue. I love a book that airs its influences in public and isn’t afraid to try a little too hard. Merrett King is the kind of playful, critical voice I want to read right now. — Naomi Pearce
What if artworks were experienced like this, really? Encountered somewhat smashed together, one after the other, feeling distinctly hungover, lying on your stomach on the gallery floor, your phone on fire, your brain full of song and gossip and other people’s ideas, your whole self open to actually feeling it all? What if these were the realest conditions for art-thinking, art-writing and serious critical engagement? These are provocations of Caitlin Merrett King’s brilliant first book – an urgent repurposing of Lynne Tillman’s Madame Realism sequence for Glasgow, for the state of art criticism today, for our own precarious times. — Kate Briggs
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After Dean Kissick and Sarah Tripp, 2022
After Dean Kissick and Co-star, 2022
Coffee (performance leftovers), Paris, instant coffee, glasses, film, Big Time Sensuality, with Florida (Hannah Reynolds and Isabella Widger), WASPS Hanson Street Project Space, Glasgow International, 2018
Flowers for Carrie, Drawings for Jamie, blue pencil on paper, carnations, 2018
After Dean Kissick and Sarah Tripp, 2022
After Dean Kissick and Co-star, 2022
