My Services
Arts Writing
Clear and precise writing is essential for communicating the direction of your work to curators, institutions, reviewers, and audiences. I refine artist statements, project descriptions, exhibition texts, catalogue essays, grant proposals, and other forms of arts writing to ensure the concepts and processes at the core of your work are conveyed with clarity, accuracy, and originality.
Arts writing projects I work on:
- Artist and project statements
- Grant proposals
- Exhibition texts
- Critical essays and contextual texts
How arts writing benefits from editing
Arts writing often combines descriptive, critical, and contextual elements. Editing addresses important aspects of this work:
Emphasis:
Clarifying the project’s focus, purpose, and central claims.
Balance:
Strengthening arguments without diluting experimental or critical nuance.
Context:
Situating artworks in relation to their institutional, cultural, and discursive settings.
Strong arts writing balances accessibility with fidelity to the work’s intentions, materials, and conceptual structure.
Arts writing responds to diverse contexts and expectations
Texts often circulate between academic, curatorial, institutional, and public contexts, each with different expectations.
Writing should remain precise while adapting to varying audiences, formats, and evaluative frameworks.
Why Work With Me
How I can help
Focused editorial support for arts writing
Arts writing appears in exhibitions, applications, and publications, often addressing diverse audiences. Editing ensures that ideas, materials, and arguments are articulated clearly while remaining responsive to artistic intent and context. Editing in these contexts involves attending to:
Structural clarity:
Organizing concepts, descriptions, and contextual frameworks so that your text is focused and suitable for its purpose.
Language refinement:
Calibrating language for curators, committees, publishers, and public audiences.
Conceptual framing:
Ensuring concepts and references remain consistent and intelligible throughout your text.
Integration
Bringing writing, artworks, and themes into a cohesive interpretive field.
What I Offer
Levels of editing available
Developmental editing
For early drafts that require deeper revision to:
- Shape the conceptual frame
- Build logical flow and structure across different sections
- Strengthen the links between artworks and ideas
Developmental editing Rate: $0.08–$0.10/word + tax
Stylistic editing
Suited to most arts writing projects, this level:
- Improves tone, flow, and readability
- Refines language while preserving the critical or interpretive intent
- Ensures the text is clearly articulated and well paced
Stylistic editing Rate: $0.06–$0.08/word + tax
Copyediting & Proofreading
Final review ensures:
- Correct grammar, usage, and punctuation
- Consistency in terminology
- Accuracy in titles, dates, credits, and other details
Copyediting Rate: $0.04–$0.06/word + tax
Proofreading Rate:$0.03–$0.05/word + tax
Benefits of professional editing
- Supports clarity in different forms of arts writing, from brief statements to extended essays
- Balances interpretive depth with accessibility, preserving conceptual nuance
- Reduces obscurity caused by unfocused or overly dense phrasing
- Strengthens the relationship between artwork and text so that themes and intentions register more clearly
Frequently asked questions
Do you write artist statements for clients?
No. I edit existing drafts to clarify the intentions behind the work. The content remains your own.
Do you work with curators and institutions?
Yes. I edit catalogue essays, curatorial texts, and accompanying materials for exhibitions.
Can you help condense long drafts into shorter statements?
Yes. I can help to refine longer texts into more concise formats without sacrificing depth, accuracy, or coherence.