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STEPHEN MCNEILLY is a London based writer, artist, curator, editor, anthologist, publisher and museum director at Swedenborg House, London. He is a founding editor of Dedecus Press (2002) and the collaborative imprint Hundtēontiġ Editions (2025), and is the author of a number of books including Concerning an Idea About Place and Swedenborg’s Lusthus, the last of which was described by the Cambridge Review of Books as a ‘poignant reflection upon the inter-connectedness of place and writing’ and culminated in an exhibition and publication featuring contributions by Deborah Levy, Daniel Birnbaum, Ken Worpole, Chloe Aridjis and numerous others. With the writer Iain Sinclair he has recently published Wheat Geometry Axioms, a collaborative work of images and poetry.

In his role as Museum Director at Swedenborg House, he has curated and programmed multiple exhibitions the most recent being Elective Affinities (2025-26) including works by Leonora Carrington, William Blake, S T Coleridge and Asger Jorn amongst others and Dormitorium: The Film Décors of the Quay Brothers (2025). He is also the Programme Director of the Swedenborg Film Festival, the Swedenborg Residency and the Swedenborg House Gallery and is the founding editor of the Journal of the Swedenborg Society, described by Annalisa Volpone as a ‘mapping of the impact of Swedenborg’s thought on the western literary imaginaire’. As series editor and contributor of the Swedenborg Review and the Swedenborg Archive Series, he has collaborated with numerous authors and artists including Peter Ackroyd, Homero Aridjis, A S Byatt, Iain Sinclair, Tom McCarthy, Tomas Transtromer and others.

More widely he has produced several small volumes of poetry, has contributed to the Poetry Review and the Blake Quarterly, and has published/translated works by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, French dada artist Arthur Cravan and the Idealist philosopher George Berkeley. He has collaborated on several projects with the writer Iain Sinclair and has staged projects at the Whitechapel Gallery, Frith Street Gallery and the Curzon Soho cinema. He has lectured in critical theory, philosophy and art at the University of Creative Arts, Canterbury and Central Saint Martins, London. He is currently writing a reconstructive novella of Honore de Balzac’s lost manuscript Louis Lambert entitled The Youngest of the Dead and is the editor and contributor of the Swedenborg Book of Endnotes and the Dedecus Catalogue Raisonne.

Stephen McNeilly expresses craft and care through curation

—International Times

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