Julia Desiree Merican

is a writer, editor, and researcher

Julia Merican is a writer from Kuala Lumpur, a recent graduate from the Royal College of Art, and an archivist of small scraps of human experience. Her words have appeared in various print and digital publications, and once, quite excitingly, on an unfurling scroll in a gallery.Currently, Julia works in London and is finding writing in the third person quite a lot of fun. She thinks often about liminal or ruined spaces, the ancillary prettiness of an em dash, how heritage is made and broken, and the art of living so gently you barely make a sound.You can support her writing by subscribing to her newsletter here. She would be luminously and eternally grateful.

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2025

everything is romantic
hymns you haven’t heard
kintsugi
random access memory


2024

tea and frequency
proximity
only lemons: will calver’s lovely, ordinary, perishable things
minding the gaps: a sonic essay
the olive branch and the poetics of reconciliation
an interview with amina cain
playing the fool
protecting the flame


2023

allom! amatai! allom!
signs of the times
gallery in a state of undress
diasporic dysphoria


2022

gift exchange
the directness of apples
dressing up for noodles
a silent dwelling
let the land be
monitoring the belt and road initiative


2021

cosmopolitan reveries
turmoil within and without
a conversational art with larissa pham
how i settle myself
the gendered politics of 'mustang'
at the core of it


2020

the cerebral and the sensual
meta morphosis
unlucky
‘hidden lines' exhibition text
being foreign, abroad and at home


2019

'fragmented bodies' wall text
the allure of the italian summer
hungry ghosts

editorial work
the key press
the dodo newspaper
search magazine
the oxford review of books
cereal magazine

artist profile commissions

victoria kosasie
mariana cordoba
lina a.


copywriting commissions

studio macbride
moro dabron
cereal magazine
francis gallery