Selected Press
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‘Deanna Petherbridge’ in Vitamin D3: Today’s Best in Contemporary Drawing‘, George Vasey, Phaidon Press Limited, London & New York, 2021
‘Reflections on a ruined homeland‘, Ammar Azzouz, Vol.24, Issue 1-2, City, 24 (1–2), pp.178–194 , 24 March, 2020
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Future Cities: Architecture and the Imagination, Paul Dobraszczyk, London: Reaktion Books, pp.182 – 184, 2019
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‘Here be Monsters’, Marina Warner, The New York Review of Books, 19 December, 2013
‘Witches and Wicked Bodies’, Lyndsey Mackay, Museums Journal, October 2013
‘History’s bad girl, Rachel Spence, Financial Times, 31 August/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, 31 July, 2013
‘The erotic side of witchcraft’, Arifa Akbar, The Independent, 24 July 2013
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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, 1 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
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Adrian Searle, ‘The thin grey line’ The Guardian, Tuesday 20 July, 2010
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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, 2 February, 2007
John Spurling, Petherbridge: Alone with Soane, The Spectator, 27 January, 2007
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Julia Stuart, ‘Quick on the draw’, The Independent Review, 26 May, 2004
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Jim Buckell, ‘A suburban dreamland’ The Australian, 15 October, 2003
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Doris Lockhart Saatchi, ‘Low Tech, laborious and ancient’ Independent on
Sunday, 8 October, 2000
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Brian Sewell ‘Art-breaker to swoon over’ Evening Standard, London, 23 November, 1999
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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
Jean-Jaques Lerrant ‘Le corps anatomise et reinvente’ Le Monde, Paris, August 26, 1998
‘The Quick and the Dead’ David Musgrave, Art Monthly, No.212, Winter 1997-8
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Richard Cork ‘Visions that go more than skin deep’ The Times, 11 November, 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, 26 November, 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, 9 November, 1997
Adrian Searle ‘Corporal Entertainment Review of The Quick and the Dead’ The Guardian, 4 November, 1997
Richard D. North ‘Taking a quick look at the dead’ The Independent, 26 November, 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, 16 February, 1997
Caro Howell, ‘Deanna Petherbridge’ in ed. Delia Gaze Dictionary of Women Artists, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London and Chicago, 1997
Tom Lubbock, ‘As seen on Radio 3’, The Independent, 18 February, 1997
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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
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‘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, 17 August, 1995
‘Mission to revive the art of drawing’ Lesley Garner The Daily Telegraph, 18 November, 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
‘Deanna Petherbridge: Drawing Allusions’, Gigi Hu, Accent Magazine, Singapore,
January 1995
‘Where do we draw the line?’, Anna Douglas, in ed. Katy Deepwell, New Feminist Art Criticism: Critical Strategies, Manchester University Press, Manchester & New York, 1995
‘Deanna Petherbridge’s complex art of structure’ Ooi Kok Chuen ,The New Sunday Times, Kuala Lumpur, 15 January, 1995
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‘Drawing the Line’, Bryan Robertson, The Spectator , 11 November, 1994
‘Allusions, metaphors, puzzles in Petherbridge’s Drawings’, Susie Wong. The Straits Times, 11 November, 1994
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‘Pet Noires’, Susan Loppert, Modern Painters, Vol. 5, No. 4, Winter 1992
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‘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, 1 October, 1991
‘A Free Hand’, Andrew Graham-Dixon The Independent Magazine , 2 November, 1991
‘The Draughtsman’s Concept’, Patricia Morison The Financial Times, 13 December, 1991
‘Moral rights: a Case Study’ Nicola Solomon & David Mitchell, New Law Journal, 6 December, 1991
‘Writing on the Wall for Artists: Public art politics’ Paul Cheeseright, The Financial Times, 29 December 1991
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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, 10 August, 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 1990
Sarah 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
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‘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
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‘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
Philip Rawson, Design, p. 184, Prentice-Hall Inc, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1987/8
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‘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
‘New ballets by David Bintley and Jennifer Jackson’ Jann Parry, The Observer 18
January 1987
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‘Architecture of an Artist,’ Barnali Mitra-Ray, The Telegraph, India, 5 January, 1986
‘Metaphors of the Inner Self,’ Geeta Doctor,The Indian Express, (Madras) 5 January, 1986
‘An affair with temples’ Samir Datta, The Statesman (Calcutta), 16 February, 1986
‘Contradictions’, The Hindu, 28 February, 1986
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Tim Ostler, ‘A Matter of Taste’ (Review of One Percent) Building Design
December 6, 1985
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
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‘Orwellian Interpreters’ Jasia Reichardt, Building Design, February 24, 1984
Nadine Meisner, ‘Taking a Risk’ Dance and Dancers, September 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
A Broken Set of Rules’ John Percival, The Times August 3 1984
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‘Deanna Petherbridge’, John McEwen, Art Monthly, No.64, March 1983
‘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
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John McEwen, ‘Fünf englische Outsider’ Das Kunstwerk, Vol 2 XXXV, April 1982
‘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
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‘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
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‘Deanna Petherbridge at Gallery K’, Jo Ann Lewis, The Washington Post,
Saturday 19 November 1977
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‘Petherbridge at the Whitechapel’, John Gainsborough, Arts Review, Vol.XXVII
No.20, 1975
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‘Deanna Petherbridge at Angela Flowers’, Robert Weale, New Scientist, 12
April, 1973
‘Mathematical sensibility’ Architectural Design, 4 April, 1973