Harriet Thorpe is an arts writer and works as events assistant at the ICA in London. She regularly contributes to Studio International and has contributed to Frieze, Asian Arts Newspaper, Monocle and Suitcase magazine.
Harriet is co-founder and co-editor of an arts journal called Contemporary Text.
contemporarytext.co.uk @harrietthorpe
Harriet Thorpe
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