Alix Beeston

Alix Beeston is an Australian writer and academic based in Wales. She is Reader in Literature and Visual Culture at Cardiff University and the author of two books: Image Encounters, a forthcoming critical–creative account of women and girls in photography (Penn State University Press, 2027), and In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen (Oxford University Press, 2018). She's on Instagram and Bluesky at @alixbeeston.

Works By Alix Beeston

One with Another
Sifting through the textual layers of Gail Jones’ most recent novel, Alix Beeston finds not only a revival of modernist techniques in Jones’ unpicking of modernism’s legacy, but also a timely defence of more immersive forms of literary criticism.
16 Oct. 2024
A History of Shapes
Anwen Crawford’s remarkable new work of non-fiction, No Document, is many kinds of document, but one of the ways it can be read is as an attempt to discover a form of writing fit for ephemeral art practices – especially as those practices relate t...
10 May. 2021
Fingers Stained with Fruit and Ink
Savage spends the entire collection telling us she’s playing at being an intellectual – that it’s a ruse, yet another trick – and all the while the book provides an object lesson in the many ways that’s simply not true. The un-small line of her vi...
15 June. 2020