Publications
Deanna Petherbridge authored numerous catalogue essays and book chapters, and published widely in academic journals on both contemporary and historical issues in art and architecture, with a particular focus on drawing. Her writing appeared regularly in publications including Architectural Review, Art Monthly, Architects’ Journal, Crafts Magazine, Building Design and the Financial Times.
She was a Research Scholar at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2001–2002), and held a research fellowship at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (2007).
The archive of her writings is held at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, where a substantial body of her essays is currently being digitised. Enquiries regarding access should be directed to the Paul Mellon Centre.
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Future Publication: REVISED EDITION of Primacy of Drawing: Histories and Theories of Practice, London & New York: Thames & Hudson
“A thoroughly revised edition of this definitive book, the most comprehensive study of drawing ever published.”
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Deanna Petherbridge, Drawing as Metaphor Ongoing monthly series of articles on own recent drawings:
www.drawingmatter.org/tag/drawing-as-metaphor/
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Deanna Petherbridge, ‘The Haptic Eye/I’, Joy Hester: Remember Me, Kendrah Morgan (ed), exhibition catalogue, Melbourne: Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2020 Deanna Petherbridge, ‘Drawing: Practice and Politics’, Drawing Research Theory Practice, Vol.5 No.1 2020
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Deanna Petherbridge, ‘Leaking, Shrieking and Venomous Bodies: European Witch Imagery in the Sixteenth Century’ in Daniel Zamani, Judith Noble and Merlin Cox (eds) Visions of Enchantment: Occultism, Magic and Visual Culture, [Select papers from the University of Cambridge Conference], Fulgur Press, UK, 2019, pp.50- 66
Deanna Petherbridge, ‘The Drawing Experiment at the Royal College of Art 1995 – 2001’ in The International Encylopedia of Art and Design, R. Hickman, J.Baldacchino, K. Freedman, E. Hall and N. Meager (eds) Pedagogy Vol.3, Oxford: John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2019 (ISBN 978-1-118-97807-8)
‘The Drawing Experiment at the Royal College of Art 1995 – 2001′ .pdf
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Artists at Work, The Drawings Gallery, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, 3rd May -15th July 2018 
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Essay ‘Destruction and Graphics Strategies of Excess’ in Deanna Petherbridge: Places of Change & Destruction, Drawings 2017
Art Space Gallery | Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, London
ISBN 978-0-9957524-1-2
www.artspacegallery.co.uk/BOOKS/Deanna2017
Catalogue essay, ‘Faultlines’, The Drawing Works at Patriothall Gallery, Stockbridge, Edinburgh Art Festival, 4th – 27th August 2017
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‘Some Thoughts on the Social Co-option of Drawing’, Studio Research Journal, William Platz (guest ed.), No. 4, November 2016, pp. 4-16 (Griffith University, Queensland Collage of Art)
www.studioresearch.com.au
‘On Drawing’, Deanna Petherbridge interviewed by Richard Bright, in Drawing Thoughts, Interalia Online Magazine, January 2016
www.interaliamag.org/interviews/deanna-petherbridge
Essay ‘The Phoenix Effect’ in Wendy Smith: Touching the Surface
Art Space Gallery | Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, London
December 2015 ISBN 978-0-9571502-1-8
www.artspacegallery.co.uk/BOOKS/WendySmith
‘Abject Bodies and Places of Enchantment’ in Judith Noble, Dominic Shepherd et al (eds.) BLACK MIRROR I Embodiment, South Petherton, Somerset: Fulgur, 2016, pp 75-100
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Review of Drawing People: The Human Figure in Contemporary Art in ‘The Art Newspaper’, October 2015
Essay The Space between Us: Drawings by Sophie Dickens, Cantate Communications, UK, August 2015
Wild Humours versus Graphic Inventions: The drawings of Romney & Gainsborough in ‘Transactions of the Romney Society’, Volume 19, 2014 (2015)
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Graphic Intersections: Erga, Parerga and Pro-Erga – 0085 in special issue ‘When Art History Meets Design History’, edited by Anne Puetz & Glenn Adamson, RIHA (International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art) Journal, March
www.riha-journal.org/articles/2014/2014-jan-mar/special-issue-art-design-history/petherbridge-graphic-intersections
Essay in Madge Gill: Medium & Visionary, catalogue to accompany the exhibition, Orleans House Gallery, Riverside, Twickenham, October 2013 – January 2014
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Witches & Wicked Bodies, catalogue to accompany the exhibition, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh from July – November in association with the British Museum, National Galleries Scotland, 2013 ISBN 978 1 906270 55 1
www.nationalgalleries.org/shop/online-shop/product/witches-wicked-bodies-23493
Narratives of Arrival and Resolution Abstract works on paper (Belinda Cadbury, Sarah Cawkwell, Wendy Smith, Alison Turnbull) ISBN 978 0 9571502 6 3
Art Space Gallery | Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, London
www.artspacegallery.co.uk/BOOKS/Narratives
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The Impossibility of Landscape, FUKT Magazine for Contemporary Drawing
Issue No. 11, August 2012, pp.75-79
www.deannapetherbridge.com/FUKT_magazine_article.html
On Drawing: A Transatlantic Conversation, between Alyssa E. Fanning & Deanna Petherbridge
www.resolve40.com/2013may/fanning-petheridge/fanning-petheridge-may2013
Surface/Infinity: Vija Celmins, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Exhibition catalogue, Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York, USA
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The Primacy of Drawing: Histories & Theories of Practice, Yale University Press, London & New Haven ISBN 978-0-300-12646-4
Burlington Magazine, No. 1296, Vol. 152, March 2011
www.deannapetherbridge.com/pages/Profile/Burlington_Magazine.html
John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald, March, 2011
www.deannapetherbridge.com/pages/Profile/SMH-5-6-Mar-2011.html
(AUDIO) ABC Radio National, Sunday 27th February 2011 (24 mins)
www.deannapetherbridge.com/pages/Profile/Audio.html
London Evening Standard, end of year book review by Brian Sewell
Timothy Wilcox,’ Visual thinking’, Apollo, January 2011
Adrian Searle, The Guardian, July 2010
‘Deanna Petherbridge on Paul Nash’s Wire (1918)’, Tate Etc, Issue 21, Spring 2011, p.55 Library Journal, Art & Humanities review September 2010
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Nailing the Liminal: The Difficulties of Defining Drawing, in ‘Writing on Drawing: Essays on Drawing Practice & Research’, ed. S.W. Garner, Intellect Books, Bristol, pp. 265-285, ISBN 978-1-84150-200-7
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In Touch & Out of Mind: The Psychodynamics of Obsessive Drawing, in ‘Madness & Creativity’, ed. Richard Pine, Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 265-285, ISBN 1-84718-091-4
On the Moving Line & the Future Subjunctive of Drawing in a post-Duchampian Age, Special Issue, Futures 39, Guest editor Juliet Steyn, No. 10, December 2007, pp. 1191-1200 ISSN 0016-3287
Perspectives on Art, Drawings from the UBS Art Collection on display at Tate Modern, London. Article series, The Sunday Telegraph, 4th May – 11th November
Cloning & Conceptualising: The Duality of Mike Roles Figurative Sculpture, in ‘Mike Roles Welcome to the Third Millenium’, Sue Atkinson, Catalogue, Broomhill Art, 2007 ISBN 0-9544910-0-9
Drawing as Subversive Practice, in ‘Drawing Board’, conference proceedings, eds. John Plowman & Catherine Burge, pp. 6-18, The University of Lincoln, Lincoln, ISBN 1-86050-209-1
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Drawing Inspiration, catalogue, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal (Lakeland Arts Trust)
Proceedings of the Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution, Volume 9 ISSN 1465-8496
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So much for received notions about ‘Sculptors Drawings’, Sculpture Journal Vol. XIII 2005, pp. 115-131 ISSN 1366-2724
On Models & Mickey Mouse, The International Journal of Art & Design Education, Vol. 24 No. 2, May 2005, pp. 126-137 ISSN 1476-8070
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Constructing the Language of Line, in ‘John Flaxman 1755 – 1826: Master of the Purest Line’, ed. David Bindman, exhibition catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum & Strang Collection, University College, London, June 2003, pp. 6-13 ISBN 0 9542284 2 1
Two Cities: Two Modernities, catalogue, Monash University, Melbourne, October – November 2003 ISBN 0 975041 3 3
Reframing the Collection, introduction to 3rd edition of ‘Catalogue of the Women’s Art at New Hall’, New Hall, Cambridge, UK ISBN 0 9507108 4 9
Meditations on a Dirty Word, key-note address, ACUADS conference, Hobart, Australia
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At the Boundary of Mind & Hand, Idea and Form, The Art Newspaper, No. 128 September 2002
Subverting the Silicon: A Critique of Drawing, in ‘The Computer Age’, UME magazine No.14, Australia 2002
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Exhibitions, Legitimacy & Intellectual Ownership, The Producers: Contemporary Curators in Conversation, No. 11, eds. Susan Hiller & Sarah Martin BALTIC, Newcastle, UK ISBN 0 7017 0118 8
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Protocols of Drawing: Drawing with the Pencil through the Lens, in ‘Drawing Across Boundaries’, ed. Judith Mottram, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
Presenting the Past, in ‘Drawing the Future’, Symposium Proceedings, Department of Design, University of Huddersfield, UK
Elisabeth Vellacott: The Poetics of Reticence’ in Elisabeth Vellacott A Memorial Exhibition, ed. Quentin Stevenson. The Redfern Gallery, London
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D rawing Towards the ‘real’ in Sculpture, at ‘Goodwood; Drawings & Models 1994 – 1998’. Exhibition catalogue, Goodwood
Lines of Acculturation, in ‘Lines of Desire: International Drawing Exhibition’, eds. Jagjit Chuhan, Kim Merrington, Alnoor Mitha. Exhibition catalogue, Liverpool Art School & Oldham Art Gallery &Museum, touring dates April 1998 – June 1999
ISBN 0952316109
Corps a vif: Art et anatomie, eds. Deanna Petherbridge, Andrea Carlino, Claude Ritschardt, Musee d’Art et Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland 1998 ISBN 2 8306 0158 0
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The Quick & the Dead: Artists & Anatomy, National Touring Exhibitions Hayward Gallery Publishing, 1997 ISBN 1 85332 172 9
University of California Press ISBN 0 5202 1738 1
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Artists with Attitude, in ‘Intersection: A meeting of Art & Architecture’. Convention papers Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Adelaide & Sydney, Australia
Drawing backwards into the future: Formulating an agenda in ‘Issues in Art & Education, Aspects of the Fine Art Curriculum’, ed. Paul Hetherington, Wimbledon School of Art & Tate Publishing, London, 1996 ISBN 1 85437 203 3
The Riverscape Project: Art & Regeneration in ‘Riverscape’ Four International Artist Residencies, River Tees, Cleveland, UK
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Sylvia Melland A Retrospective Exhibition (1906 – 1993), Exhibition catalogue, Boundary Gallery, London
Art for Architecture: The Jerwood Art for Architecture Award, RSA, Department of National Heritage, The Jerwood Foundation, London
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The Art World’s Micro-Economy in Developing the Visual Arts, ed. Eric Moody, City University, London
Bhajan Hunjan, exhibition catalogue, Cartwright Hall, South Hill Park Trust, Bradford, UK
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Cecily Sash, exhibition catalogue, Oriel 31, Powys, UK
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Peter Fink, exhibition catalogue, Prague, 1992
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The Primacy of Drawing: An Artist’s View, A National Touring Exhibition from the South Bank Centre, Royal Festival Hall, London 1991 ISBN 1 85332 078 12 0 0 5
S.W. by N.E Exhibition Catalogue, Indar Pasricha Fine Arts, London
Panayotis Cacoyannis, exhibition catalogue, Todd Art Gallery, London
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Reeling, Writhing & Fainting in Coils, in ‘Writing About Art’, proceeds of a conference at Gregynog Hall, Powys, 1988. The Welsh Arts Council & Department of Extramural Studies, The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, pp. 49-56, 1990
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Ceramic Sculptures by Madhumita Bose-Thomas, exhibition catalogue British Council, Calcutta, India
Perspectiva, Prospectiva, in ‘Vista in Piranesi’s Prisons: A Perspective’, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
The Muralist as Part of the Design Team, Interior Designers Yearbook, Grosvenor Press, London
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Conversations, in ‘Temples & Tenements: The Indian Drawings of Deanna Petherbridge’, George Michell, John McEwen. Seagull Books in association with Fischer Fine Art Ltd., Calcutta, India
A Certain Level of Terror, in ‘Denis Masi’, exhibition catalogue, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, UK
Art for Architecture, ed. Deanna Petherbridge, HMSO, London, 1987
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A Critical Survey of Contemporary Mural Painting, proceedings of the 1983 National Mural Conference, Wolverhampton Polytechnic, 1984 & edited version in Murals in the UK, Research Training Initiatives, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
The Writing on the Wall, Interior Designs Handbook, Grosvenor Press
One Per Cent, exhibition catalogue, Levitt Bernstein Associates, London
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Passionate & Dispassionate Patronage, four commissions in ‘Context Exaggerations of a Public Order’ in ‘Art Within Reach’, ed. Peter Townsend, Thames & Hudson, London, 1984
Tess Jaray: Prints & Drawings 1964 – 1984, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
Nineteen Eighty-Four, Awkright Trust, Camden Arts Centre, London
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Public Commissions & the New Concerns in Sculpture, in ‘The Sculpture Show’, Arts Council of Great Britain, London
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Paul Neagu: Writhing Space, exhibition catalogue, Ceolfrith Press No. 65, Sunderland, UK
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The Iron Siege of Pavia & Other Drawings, exhibition catalogue, ed. Jasia Reichardt, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1975
Selected Press
George Vasey, ‘Deanna Petherbridge’ in Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing, London & New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2021
Ammar Azzouz, ‘Reflections on a ruined homeland’, City, Vol.21, 2020, Issue 1 – 2, pp. 178 – 194
https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739414
Paul Dobraszczyk, Future Cities: Architecture and the Imagination, London: Reaktion Books, 2019, pp.182 – 184
Marina Warner, ‘Here be Monsters’, The New York Review of Books, 19th December, 2013
Lyndsey Mackay, ‘Witches and Wicked Bodies’, Museums Journal, October 2013
Rachel Spence, ‘History’s bad girl,’ Financial Times, August 31/1 September 2013
“Here’s one I dreamed up earlier…’ Laura Cumming, The Observer, Sunday 11 August 2013
‘Something wicked this way comes…’ Matthew Dennison, The Times, 3 August 2013
‘Riding with the Devil’, Viv Lawes, Country Life July 31, 2013
‘The erotic side of witchcraft’, Arifa Akbar, The Independent, 24th July 2013
Timothy Wilcox ‘Visual thinking’. Review of The Primacy of Drawing, Apollo, January 2011
John McDonald ‘Back to the drawing board’ Sydney Morning Herald 5-6 March 2011
Lino Mannocci, Review of The Primacy of Drawing, Burlington Magazine, No.1296, Vol.152, 1st March 2011
Julian Bell, ‘Desire of the Line Review of The Primacy of Drawing’, The Times Literary Supplement, 14 January 2011
Zoë Anderson, The Royal Ballet: 75 Years, Faber and Faber, London 2011
Adrian Searle, ‘The thin grey line’ The Guardian, Tuesday 20 July 2010
Brian Sewell, ‘A Curious Wellcome’ (The Quick and the Dead & later anatomical
exhibitions )Evening Standard, 10 September 2007
Andrew Mead, Critic’s Choice, Architectural Journal, February 2 2007
John Spurling, Petherbridge: Alone with Soane, The Spectator, 27 January 2007
Julia Stuart, ‘Quick on the draw’, The Independent Review, 26 May 2004
Jim Buckell, ‘A suburban dreamland’ The Australian, 15 October 2003
Brian Sewell ‘Art-breaker to swoon over’ Evening Standard, London, November 23, 1999 Doris Lockhart Saatchi, ‘Low Tech, laborious and ancient’ Independent on
Sunday 8 October 2000
Mel Gooding et al, Public: Art: Space, A Decade of Public Art Commissions Agency, 1987-1997, Merrell Holberton Publishers, London, 1998
Mark Dery. ‘Gross Anatomy’ (review of the catalogue The Quick and the Dead)
Village Voice, New York, December 1998
Der Sezierstisch der Zeichner, Hans-Peter von Däniken, Tages Anzeiger, Zürich, 10 September 1998
‘Der Blick in den Abgrund’ Ursula Sinnreich, Neue Bürcher Zeitung, Zürich, 31 July 1998
Laurence Chauvy ‘Lorsque l’anatomie devient un bel art et que les depouilles se transforment en anges’ (review of Corps a vif) Le Temps, Geneva, June 19, 1998
Etienne Dumont ‘Le Musee d’art et d’histoire va donner sa lecon d’anatomie’ (review of Corps a vif ) Tribune de Geneve, Geneva, June 16, 1998
Martin Ambush ‘Anatomy der Beggared’ (review of Corps a vif ) Sudostschweiz Zeitung, June 27, 1998
‘The Quick and the Dead’ David Musgrave, Art Monthly, No.212, Winter 1997-8
Jean-Jaques Lerrant ‘Le corps anatomise et reinvente’ Le Monde, Paris, August 26, 1998Richard Cork ‘Visions that go more than skin deep’ The Times, November 11 1997
‘Hidden Dimesions’ Preview The Quick and the Dead, Martin Kemp, Tate Magazine, Winter, 1997
Gabrielle Murphy ‘Dissecting room, Body and Soul: anatomy and art’.The Lancet
Vol. 350, November 15, 1997
Richard D. North ‘Taking a quick look at the dead Review of The Quick and the
Dead’ The Independent, November 26, 1997
Martin Postle ‘The Cutting Edge Review of The Quick and the Dead’ Academy Magazine, Autumn, 1997
William Packer ‘Lessons from’ Life Review of The Quick and the Dead, Financial Times, November 8/9, 1997
Tim Hilton ‘Hung, drawn and quartered Review of The Quick and the Dead’
Independent on Sunday, November 9, 1997
Adrian Searle ‘Corporal Entertainment Review of The Quick and the Dead’ The Guardian, November 4, 1997
Richard D. North ‘Taking a quick look at the dead’ The Independent, November
26, 1997
Brian Sewell, Review of The Quick and the Dead, Evening Standard, Thursday
30 October 1997
Sue Arnold ‘Review of The Outline around the Shadow Radio series’ The
Observer, London, February 16, 1997
Caro Howell, ‘Deanna Petherbridge’ in ed. Delia Gaze Dictionary of Women Artists, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London and Chicago, 1997 Vol. I.
Tom Lubbock, ‘As seen on Radio 3’, The Independent, 18th February 1997
Design for Performance: From Diaghilev to the Pet Shop Boys, eds. Peter Docherty and Tim White, Lund Humphries Publishers in association with Central St Martins College of Art & Design, London 1996‘Collaborations: Review of Intersection Conference, Adelaide’, SA Crafts,
Crafts Council of South Australia, Autumn Issue 2, 1996’Faces to Watch in the Art World. No10: Deanna Petherbridge’ Adrian Searle The Independent, July 1995
‘Deanna Petherbridge, Professor of Drawing at the Royal College of Art’ Architects Journal, Demetrios Matheou August 17, 1995
‘Mission to revive the art of drawing’ Lesley Garner The Daily Telegraph, November 18, 1995
‘The end of the Line’ Brian Sewell Art Review Vol. XLVII, November 1995
‘Architectural tropes: the drawings of Deanna Petherbridge’ in Monument No.
12, Adelaide Festival Special, 1995
Gigi Hu, ‘Deanna Petherbridge: Drawing Allusions’, Accent Magazine, Singapore,
January 1995
Anna Douglas: ‘Where do we draw the line?’ in ed. Katy Deepwell, New Feminist Art Criticism: Critical Strategies, Manchester University Press, Manchester & New York, 1995
‘Drawing the Line’, Bryan Robertson, The Spectator , November 11, 1994
‘Deanna Petherbridge’s complex art of structure’ Ooi Kok Chuen ,The New Sunday Times, Kuala Lumpur, January 15, 1995
‘Allusions, metaphors, puzzles in Petherbridge’s Drawings’, Susie Wong. The Straits Times, November 11, 1994
‘Pet Noires’, Susan Loppert ,Modern Painters, Vol. 5, No. 4, Winter 1992
‘Drawings, Dribblings and Marital Joys. Review of The Primacy of Drawing’ John McEwen,The Sunday Telegraph , September 29 1991
‘Drawing up a New Artistic Agenda Review of The Primacy of Drawing’ Marina Vaizey, The Sunday Times, October 1991
‘Lines of Thought Review of The Primacy of Drawing’ Andrew Graham-Dixon, The Independent, October 1, 1991
‘A Free Hand’, Andrew Graham-Dixon The Independent Magazine , November
2, 1991
‘The Draughtsman’s Concept’, Patricia Morison The Financial Times, December
13, 1991
‘Moral rights: a Case Study’ Nicola Solomon & David Mitchell New Law Journal, December 6, 1991‘Writing on the Wall for Artists: Public art politics’ Paul Cheeseright The Financial Times, December 29 1991
Peter Dormer, ‘Blood Sweat and Cheers: Bloodlines, a New Work for the Royal Ballet’, AJ Review, Architects Journal, 12 December 1990
‘Censored’ Christian Tyler Observer column, Financial Times, Friday August 10, 1990
‘Subtle Menace: New Drawings by Deanna Petherbridge’ Christopher Woodward Architects Journal, February 14, 1990
‘Deanna Petherbridge An Austere Mix of Cultures’ interview with Sajid Rizvi, Eastern Art Report, February 1990Sarah Kent ‘On Deanna Petherbridge’ Time Out, 31 January – 7 February, 1990
‘Deanna Petherbridge’ Exhibition review, Margaret Garlake Art Monthly, February 1990
‘A journey through sinister spaces’, William Packer, Financial Times, Saturday January 20, 1990
‘Talking Art: Charlotte Du Cann on Artist Deanna Petherbridge’ The Guardian,January 17, 1990
‘Malcolm Reading reports on symposium ‘Where is Architecture Going? ‘”Building
Design, May 19th, 1989
Bryan Robertson, ‘The Painter as Designer’ in British Theatre Design: The Modern Age, ed. John Goodwin, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1989
‘Cities beautiful’ Antony Thornycroft on ‘Percent for Art’ Financial Times Saturday 19 November 1988
‘Deanna Petherbridge: Graphic Artist of the Built World’ Jenny Towndrow, Design World Australia no.15, 1988
‘A Passage to India: On Deanna Petherbridge’ Financial Express, New Delhi, January 24, 1988
‘Temples through British Eyes’, Times of India, New Delhi, December 13, 1987
‘The Romantic and the Sinister’, Kamala Kapoor, The Sunday Observer, New Delhi, December 13, 1987‘Implicit Metaphors’, Amrita Bazar Patrika, Calcutta, November 12, 1987
‘The Petherbridge Effect’, Geeta Doctor, Indian Express, Madras, October 10, 1987
Colin Amery, ‘Removing the mystique of commissioning’ Review of Art for Architecture, Financial Times Monday September 21 1987
‘Petherbridge’, Margaret Garlake, Art Monthly, No.107, June 15 1987
John Spurling, ‘Temples and Tenements: The Indian Drawings of Deanna Petherbridge’,
The New Statesman, May 8, 1987
‘An artist who understand how light makes space’, Colin Amery, Financial Times April 27, 1987
‘Which Side of the Fence, PWM review’ Monica Petzal, Time Out, 4-11 February 1987
‘Allegri Diversi & One by Nine, Sadler’s Wells’, Clement Crisp, The Financial Times, 16
January 1987
Philip Rawson, Design, Prentice-Hall Inc,Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1987/8, p. 184
‘New ballets by David Bintley and Jennifer Jackson’ Jann Parry, The Observer 18
January 1987
‘Architecture of an Artist,’ Barnali Mitra-Ray, The Telegraph, India, January 5 1986
‘An affair with temples’ Samir Datta, The Statesman (Calcutta), February 16, 1986
‘Contradictions’, The Hindu, February 28 1986
‘Metaphors of the Inner Self,’ Geeta Doctor,The Indian Express, (Madras) 5 January 1986
Tim Ostler, ‘A Matter of Taste’ (Review of One Percent) Building Design
December 6, 1985
Nadine Meisner, ‘Taking a Risk’ Dance and Dancers, September 1984
Peter Dormer, ‘Looking Between the Lines’ (review of Broken Set of Rules) Designer’s Journal, January 1985
‘Geometry of Rage’ by Michael Archer, Art Monthly No 82, December/January
1984/5
‘Orwellian Interpreters’ Jasia Reichardt, Building Design, February 24, 1984
‘Band-Aids for all ills’ Waldemar Januszczak reviews Art Within Reach,
The Guardian, Tuesday August 7, 1984
‘Scene-stealer’ Astragal, Architects Journal 22 & 29 August 1984
‘Rebels’ Stephanie Jordan, New Statesman, 10 August 1984
‘Talent in the ranks’ Peter Williams, The Observer, 5 August 1984
‘Deanna Petherbridge’, John McEwen, Art Monthly, No.64, March 1983
John McEwen, ‘Fünf englische Outsider’ Das Kunstwerk, Vol 2 XXXV, April 1982
A Broken Set of Rules’ John Percival, The Times August 3 1984
‘Scrambling the landmarks’ William Feaver, Observer Review, Sunday 6 February 1983
‘Obsessive and sinister perspectives, John Russell Taylor, The Times February 1, 1983
‘Eye for Detail’, Michael Shepherd, The Sunday Telegraph, January 30, 1983
John McEwen, The Spectator, February 5, 1983
‘Drawings which take over the eye’, Philip Radcliffe, The Artful Reporter,
Manchester, Issue No.53, November 1982
‘Deanna Petherbridge’ Irene McManus, The Guardian, November 24, 1982
‘Art rediscovers architecture’, Deyan Sudjic, Building Design, January 8, 1982
Nicholas Orsini, The Language of Drawing Doubleday & Co., New York 1982
‘Hope from the Hayward’ Peter Davey, The Architects’ Journal, 30 August 1978
‘Putting the Hayward Annual Two together’, Juliet Steyn & Deborah Cherry, Art
Monthly No.19, 1978
‘Deanna Petherbridge at Gallery K’, Jo Ann Lewis, The Washington Post,
Saturday 19 November 1977
‘Mathematical sensibility’ Architectural Design, 4 April, 1973
‘Petherbridge at the Whitechapel’, John Gainsborough, Arts Review, Vol.XXVII
No.20, 1975
‘Deanna Petherbridge at Angela Flowers’, Robert Weale, New Scientist, 12
April, 1973