Arabella Crutch

Arabella Crutch read English Literature at Cambridge, Fine Art History at the Courtauld, and Advanced Cultural Theory at a summer school in Bologna that she mentions whenever possible. She joined Eleutheria's arts pages in 2008 and has since reviewed over 400 exhibitions, productions, novels, and films, of which she has unreservedly praised eleven. Her criticism is characterised by formidable erudition, a prose style that younger critics describe as "Arabella-esque," and a recurring use of the word "liminal" that the subeditors have quietly stopped querying. She is a trustee of two galleries, a patron of an experimental theatre company in Peckham, and the author of The Gaze Returned: Power and Vision in the Post-Representational Space, which is available from academic publishers and nowhere else. She lives in Stoke Newington. She found it before you did.