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i’ve been a fan of Lydia Morrow ever since i began knitting so it was cool to be invited to speak on Lydia’s new podcast By Hand – listen to it here ‘We recorded this episode in March 2026 with Gabrielle De La Puente.

I got Arts Council England funding earlier this year to help complete a book I am working on, and in order to finish it, I have some research to do in Santiago, Calbuco and Chiloé all the way over the other side of the world in Chile.

My name is Gabrielle de la Puente and I am halfway through a novel.

🤞🏻 continuously updating this blog post since 29th may 2025 I usually post work updates on this website but I wanted to share my experience of doing the CHOP Protocol somewhere, because whilst there are a few videos online, I struggled to find complete bl…

2026-05-28 i did an interview with Lomography magazine.

2026-05-21 I’ve started a new podcast called Art Dates I’m going to be interviewing people as we walk around exhibitions.

2026-04-27 on Saturday 23 May, I’ll be giving a talk on Poor Artists & my experience of friendship and communities in art at Škuc Gallery, as part of the Friends with Benefits programme put on by the School for Curatorial Practices and Critical Writing Wo…

every other sunday, I post a review on thewhitepube.com; every other sunday, Zarina does.

spoke to charis mcgowan about whether london still needs frieze -> https://trippin.world/feature/does-london-still-need-frieze https://trippin.world/feature/does-london-still-need-frieze https://trippin.world/feature/does-london-still-need-frieze -> what’s

this was filmed 12 months ago!

it’s been a year since our book Poor Artists came out which means it’s time for the paperback.

While Zarina is out doing press for our book Poor Artists IRL at festivals (latitude!

My current health crash has coincided with the big 5 year Covid-in-the-UK anniversary and with the Labour government’s new eugenic campaign.

on apr 3rd i’ll be at Dead Ink Bookshop to talk “GOBLINHOOD: GOBLIN AS A MODE,’ an essay and poem collection by Jen Calleja that artfully propound her theory of “Goblin-hood” - taking in all aspects of pop culture from film, literature and art as well as…

year 1 of long covid, I was practically housebound. year 2, I got the POTS diagnosis, medication for POTS, and I clawed my way outside. year 3, I got covid a second time, became twice as sick, and returned to life inside one room where I used what little…

on march 27th, I will be joining Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien and Mark Taylor at Blackwell’s in Manchester to discuss the updated version of their book Culture is Bad for You.

I did a flying visit to London Art Fair to speak about our book Poor Artists.

Poor Artists has been shortlisted for the 2025 Gordon Burn prize!

I am only really doing this blog post because I thought this picture was funny.

2020 was surreal, 2021 was the worst year of my life, 2022 was a mental hangover, 2023 was isolating but very creative, 2024 was social and vast and celebratory, and I hope 2025 is safe at the very least.

The book is now out in the UK and North America and things are going well.

The book came out!

I was enjoying keeping track of all my work on this website but I stopped updating for a few months because my chronic illness (POTS) is much worse in summer, so I’ve been doing other things instead like: lying in bed and knitting and trying not to vomit…

we’re not actually allowed to do book promo yet because the october release is so far away but we managed to sneak in this one final interview before we have to keep our opinions to ourselves for a bit – and it was a good one: listen @ 1 hour 16 mins here…

In April, I spent a week in an old mill in France.

first thing’s first, the link is here. second thing’s second, the link takes you to Black Dog Press’s monograph for artist Hardeep Pandhal where I wrote an essay about his video Riddles On Back Street.

after I published a review of Poor Things, we got a really nice message from Revue Prostor asking if they could translate the text into Czech for their website.

I wrote a review of Poor Things – the Alasdair Gray Archive said it was their favourite text about the film so far!

This is nice.

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!

My first review of 2024 is called The Largest McDonald’s in Europe.

I’ve been knitting for almost a year and I basically knit every day now.

we filmed a video chatting through some paintings we selected for the John Moores Painting Prize show.

I’ve been into top-down flicking-through-sketchbook videos on YouTube lately so I made this for fun: you know when you do something and it’s like, yeah, no one asked me to do this, and no one will care, but I have to do it immediately?

At the end of 2023, I began writing a column for Elephant called Culture at Home.

‘Gabrielle de la Puente talks shitposting on instagram, the weight of digital attention, and the financial allure of being annoying online.’ that’s me baby you can read the piece here :)))))) :@@@@@@@@

I did a blog post over on The White Pube about everything I made in 2023 across text and video, and reflected on how I managed to do anything at all given the fact my POTS is twice as bad as it was in 2022.

As The White Pube, we used to write an advice column for Elephant.

last night, I headed to the Handyman for a panel talk arranged by Rough Trade Books and the nearby Dead Ink Bookshop to talk to Jeff Young, Jim Quail, and Will Burns about the nightlife series I’m a part of* *I published one of my reviews as a Rough Trade…

I didn’t write any reviews over the summer because I had to write a 2nd draft of the book I am working on with ZM, but critic-me is back momentarily, and I can very much feel the effect of writing on a book on my criticism.

Art juror vlog.

Last night, I interviewed Alison Rumfitt to help promo the launch of her 2nd novel Brainwyrms.

I just posted the special edition of The White Pube podcast that we made in partnership with Nando’s.

The Rough Trade Books series on Nightlife is out now, including an essay I wrote about a Twitter account that posts images of chaotic nightclub photography. https://roughtradebooks.com/collections/editions/products/chaotic-nightclub-photos-the-review-gabr…

Very happy to see the fruit(s) of my labour, and other people’s bigger, much more important labour – the John Moores Painting Prize 2023 – is now open for all to enjoy, after months of jury-ing and 1 afternoon of curation.

in the run up to the Chaotic Nightclub Photos: The Review publication with Rough Trade Books as part of their nightlife series, I did a radio show with Dead Ink Bookshop and Jeff Young who is also releasing a pamphlet.

On October 18th, I’m going to be in convo with Alison Rumfitt in the Handyman here in Liverpool, for an event produced by Dead Ink Bookshop.

https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/people-of-the-salt https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/people-of-the-salt https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/people-of-the-salt there is a really good food newsletter called Vittles.

I got early access to Downpour, an app that allows you to make games from your phone.

in summer 2022, I published a 6k word review about a twitter account called Chaotic Nightclub Photos.