Writer and arts programmer
CONTACT:
@caitlinmerrettking
caitlinmerrettking[at]live[dot]co[dot]uk
PROGRAMMING/PROJECTS:
Lunchtime Gallery
David Dale Gallery
Glasgow Art Map
Group Show -- Podcast/Radio Show
UPCOMING:
‘3 Jokes’, A Social Process of Unknowing Yourself in Real Time, Ed. Kate Briggs, Published by The Yellow Paper, 2025
SELECTED WRITING:
REVIEWS/ARTICLES
Sarah Rose, Tramway
Frieze, July 2025
You know it’s not the same as it was: Review of The Promise of Pleasure programmed by Naomi Pearce and Anna Bunting-Branch at The Barbican
MAP Magazine, 2023
Park Life: Review of Jupiter Rising X EAF Party, part of a series of responses to Edinburgh Art Festival 2023, commissioned by Rosie Roberts
MAP Magazine, 2023
Do only interesting people get interested?, Review of a Glasgow gallery weekend 12/13 May
MAP Magazine, 2023
I wondered if I would care if I saw him again, Review of People Person by Sam Cottington
MAP Magazine, 2022
Letter from Newcastle and Gateshead,
Nothing Personal, 2022
COMMISSIONED WRITING
Open up your loving arms, watch out here I come, commissioned text for A blizzard in slow motion, Florence Dwyer and Jacob Dwyer, David Dale Gallery, 2024.
Normal Position, text for publication, WORK, Yulia Carolin Köthe, 2024
‘The Golden Z’, written commentary for DAY CARE, Nicole Wermers, The Common Guild, Glasgow, 2024
Roundtable event for DAY CARE, Nicole Wermers, The Common Guild, Glasgow, 2024
with a blue backdrop for company, pamphlet published by Waterwings, French Street, Glasgow, 2024
‘A Beetle Crawls Up the Wall’, From Troubled Dreams Under a Glare of Sky, Ed. Michael Pattison, Edinburgh International Film Festival Critical Writing Commission 2023
Earlier, Here, Later, commissioned Text for Slim Glimpses, Amy Winstanley, Cample Line, Dumfriesshire, 2023
The Kink in the Arc, contributed text, Edited by Paul Becker, 2023
SLOW, commissioned text for FLOW, Sophia Pauley, The Briggait, WASPS, Glasgow, 2022
Ms Real gets lost, as far as i remember, Berlin, 2022
Teatime, commissioned text for Workaround, Charlie Hammond, The Hunterian, Glasgow, 2022
WRITING/READINGS/EXHIBITIONS
In the water in a bay, collaborative exhibition with David Roeder, A_Place, Glasgow, July 2025
The Real Me [live], Abridged audio book of Always Open Always Closed, at Baked Beans on the Doorstep, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, 29.5.24
The Ludicrously Capacious Bag, Published by The Yellow Paper, Glasgow, (The Yellow Paper Prize for New Writing), 2023
The Real Me, Abridged audio book of Always Open Always Closed, Radiophrenia, Glasgow, 2023.
Always Open Always Closed, Published by JOAN, June 2023.
3 poems in Deleuzine Vol 2: She-Dogs, Edited by Sabeen Chaudhry and Lilly Marks, 2023
Unsure Theory, Arts Journal (MDPI) Special Issue: Autotheory in Contemporary Visual Arts Practice, 2022
After Blue (1993), Responses to Derek Jarman's Blue (1993), Pilot Press, 2022