Rose Higham-Stainton is a writer and critic whose work explores gender and art-making and is held in the Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths College. She is a frequent contributor to Flash Art, and is published by LA Review of Books, ArtReview, TANK, Apollo, Texte zur Kunst, The White Review, Art Monthly, Bricks from the Kiln and Worms Magazine among others. She has published several chapbooks including Herēma (Sticky Fingers Publishing) and Foam of the Daze (Bottlecap Press) and her debut book Limn the Distance was published in 2023 by JOAN. Rose also runs the ongoing event series and project FENWOMEN, which gathers women, non-binary and trans writers from across East Anglia and invites others in.

When she's not writing, she works in small-scale farming, as a vegetable grower.

Rose is represented by The Wylie Agency. All book related queries should be sent to mail@wylieagency.co.uk.

Criticism
Can Anything Stop The Politicisation of the Seas?, ArtReview

“Con lo zucchero in bocca (With Sugar in One’s Mouth)” at Istituto Svizzero, Rome, Mousse magazine

Nicole Wermers: The Spectacle of Human Motion, ArtReview

The Politics of the Hyper-Pastoral, ArtReview

Vital Congruities, Claire-Louise Bennett's a Fish Out of Water, Los Angeles Review of Books

“My Weaponised Body”: Wynnie Mynerva at Gathering, London, Flash Art

Là, Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat, S.M.A.K, TANK magazine

Trevor Yeung “Courtyard of Attachment, Hong Kong in Venice”, Flash Art

The Burning Ambitions of Roger Ackling, Apollo Magazine

Nicole Wermers “Day Care” The Common Guild / Glasgow, Flash Art magazine

Baroque as Being: Critic Dispatch, Flash Art

Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art, Phaidon

'ALL FORM, NO CONTENT': LUCY MCKENZIE (AND ANTONIO CANOVA) AT PINACOTECA AGNELLI, Texte zur Kunst

'Throbbing Between World and Nothing: On Robert Glück’s “About Ed”', LA Review of Books, December 2023

Anna Boghiguian “A Clown Jumped into the Arena” Franco Noero / Turin , Flash Art 

Falling Apart Together, Rosemary Mayer's 'Ways of Attaching' at Spike Island, X-tra Fall 23 issue

EVERYTHING BROKEN DOWN, Artforum

‘THE FLESH OF THESE CHANGES: AMY SILLMAN AT THOMAS DANE GALLERY’, Texte zur Kunst

‘I DON’T KNOW IF YOU’RE BREATHING BUT IT”S BEAUTIFUL’, Texte zur Kunst

‘Epistolary Sisterhood: The Letters of Rosemary and Bernadette Mayer’ for Los Angeles Review of Books

‘The soft resistance of Magdalena Abakanowicz’s woven sculptures’ for Apollo magazine

‘The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe’ for Apollo magazine

‘Howardena Pindell: A New Language’ for Passe-Avant

‘A Fleeting Matter: the work of Rosemary Mayer for Passe Avant

Airing Laundry, for MAP Magazine

‘A Verdant Disposession’, Arts of the Working Class

A Cunning Stunt, The White Review

Catalogue Essays and texts

When I look at the landscape I see beneath it, on the work of Maeve Brennan for Open City Documentary Festival

'You Creep', Paige Silverman, Project Room Glasgow

'I kissed You Because I Loved You for a Minute', Katarina Sylvan at Picallili Gallery, London

'Caught in the Act', Oh, Clock! Amy Sillman

Lynda Benglis: Knots & Videotapes 1972-1976, 2024

SUFFER MACHINE, exhibition text for Scott Rogers’ VESSELS at Glasgow Project Room

Torn apart, cast from the lands that last, forever they are, offer you anything: Hannah Maria Schmutterer

No Visible Means of Support, Sara Berman at Kristin Hjellegjerde, Palm Beach

Books and Projects

Limn the Distance (Book), JOAN publishing

FENWOMEN

Artistic and Sonic Collaborations

Parchment ft Rose Higham-Stainton on Big 2007 Facts, by Spivak

Là, for  Laszlo Umbreit, Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat