[Founder, co-editor & screen-printer at Small Night Projects] For 15 years James Merrigan has prompted and disseminated art criticism as a writer, editor, teacher and artist. He is a product of the financial crisis of 2008, born out of an absence of out-in-the-open critical, urgent and personal confrontations with art-making within an emerging network and attention economy. This 15-year project includes online and printed identities and entities: +billion-journal (2010-17), Fugitive Papers (2011-13), Madder Lake Editions (2016-20) and Small Night Projects (2019-2024). James was selected for the RHA Futures (2011) as an artist, and EVA International (2014) as a fugitive art critic. He was guest-editor of the “Sex” and “Death” issues of Visual Artists' News Sheet in 2016. In 2011 he was awarded the inaugural Critical Writing Award by Visual Artists Ireland and The LAB Dublin. As co-curator of Gorey School of Art’s Periphery Space for 7 years he has worked (alongside Emma Roche) with individual artists and collectives through exhibition-making and education, including Soul–Beating (2017), DESTROY ALL HEROES (2018), and peripheriesPOST (2023). In November 2019 at Pallas Projects Dublin he curated ARRANGEMENTS, the inaugural launch and exhibition of Small Night Projects, which continues to this day as a group of artist-editors in the screenprinting of art and text projects for launch and exhibition, including WEAREFETISHIST (Garter Lane Arts Centre, 2023), TONE (Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, 2022), TOLD (Royal Hibernian Academy, 2022), TEXT (Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2023), TALK (Hugh Lane Gallery, 2023) TNTNTNT (Librairie Yvon Lambert, Paris, 2024). James tutors at Gorey School of Art and lectures in Psychoanalysis and Art at Trinity College Dublin.