[Founder, co-editor & screen-printer at Small Night Zine] James Merrigan is an artist and critic. 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. For 15 years he has invented online and printed identities for his writing and publications, from +billion-journal (2010-17) to Small Night Zine (2019—). 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 8 years he has worked alongside Emma Roche to develop exhibitions such as “Soul–Beating” (2017) and “peripheriesPOST” (2023). Recent exhibitions and publications include WEAREFETISHISTS (Garter Lane Arts Centre, 2023), and TALK (Librairie Yvon Lambert, Paris, 2024). He has been invited to write for the “Death of Painting” chapter for Routledge’s forthcoming Companion to Contemporary Painting (2026), and was selected for Houston Texas-based F Magazine’s “In Memoriam” issue, 2026. This year he will print and exhibit screen-printed projects in collaboration with artists and artist-editors under Small Night Zine & Projects at Carthage Hall Lismore and Small Night Zine at Green on Red Gallery Dublin. He teaches at Gorey School of Art and lectures in Psychoanalysis and Art at Trinity College Dublin. His writing circa 2024-26 is found exclusively on SubStack at merrigan.substack.com and Small Night projects at smallnight.org