Mike Pinnington is a widely-published writer, experienced editor and lecturer based in
Liverpool, specialising in art criticism and exhibition interpretation.
For more than fifteen years, Mike has been writing about visual art, film, class, science fiction, and all kinds of popular culture for a variety of international platforms and publications. These include (but aren’t limited to) Art Monthly, Art Quarterly, Art Review, Ocula, Tate Online, Garageland Magazine, Elephant, byNWR, MUBI Notebook, the Art Newspaper, Art et al. and Corridor8. He has also appeared on BBC Radio 4 Front Row.
He is Co-founder and Editor of The Double Negative, an online platform for Arts Criticism & Cultural Commentary based in the city of Liverpool and established in 2011.
He is currently writing a book about how and why contemporary artists are increasingly borrowing from and leaning into the language of science fiction in their work.
In 2019, Mike was co-editor of Present Tense, a non-fiction book addressing the decade following Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture award, funded by Arts Council England and Kickstarter.
Between 2013 and 2018 he was employed by Tate Liverpool as Content Editor, working across the Exhibitions and Visitor & Audiences teams, producing gallery interpretation, exhibition catalogues and guides, online content and more. He has worked with Manchester Metropolitan University, Liverpool John Moores University, University of Salford Art Collection, The Lowry, The Bluecoat, Arts Development Company, Finnish Art Agency, Finnish Painters and others; advising on interpretation methods and writing for audiences, and delivering talks, lectures, tutorials and workshops on art, culture, writing, editing and communication.
He was born in Rainhill, Merseyside, and lives in Liverpool.
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For more than fifteen years, Mike has been writing about visual art, film, class, science fiction, and all kinds of popular culture for a variety of international platforms and publications. These include (but aren’t limited to) Art Monthly, Art Quarterly, Art Review, Ocula, Tate Online, Garageland Magazine, Elephant, byNWR, MUBI Notebook, the Art Newspaper, Art et al. and Corridor8. He has also appeared on BBC Radio 4 Front Row.
He is Co-founder and Editor of The Double Negative, an online platform for Arts Criticism & Cultural Commentary based in the city of Liverpool and established in 2011.
He is currently writing a book about how and why contemporary artists are increasingly borrowing from and leaning into the language of science fiction in their work.
In 2019, Mike was co-editor of Present Tense, a non-fiction book addressing the decade following Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture award, funded by Arts Council England and Kickstarter.
Between 2013 and 2018 he was employed by Tate Liverpool as Content Editor, working across the Exhibitions and Visitor & Audiences teams, producing gallery interpretation, exhibition catalogues and guides, online content and more. He has worked with Manchester Metropolitan University, Liverpool John Moores University, University of Salford Art Collection, The Lowry, The Bluecoat, Arts Development Company, Finnish Art Agency, Finnish Painters and others; advising on interpretation methods and writing for audiences, and delivering talks, lectures, tutorials and workshops on art, culture, writing, editing and communication.
He was born in Rainhill, Merseyside, and lives in Liverpool.
︎︎︎ thedoublenegative.co.uk
︎︎︎ threads @doublenegativem
︎︎︎ instagram @doublenegativem