After Nyne was born out of a belief that arts and culture deserved to be treated with the same glamour, intelligence and sense of occasion as fashion, film and lifestyle.

What began as an ambitious independent arts publication developed into a distinctive luxury arts magazine and accompanying website, bringing together writing about art, culture, fashion, literature, music and the creative world. It occupied a space between traditional arts journalism and the glossy world of contemporary lifestyle publishing — serious about its subjects, but never afraid of style.

From 2013 to 2019, I served as Editor-in-Chief of After Nyne Magazine and its partner website, overseeing the creation and development of its editorial content.

It was a role that encompassed far more than simply commissioning and editing articles. After Nyne required an editorial vision: deciding what was worth talking about, finding the writers and voices to tell those stories, shaping features and interviews, editing copy and maintaining a consistent identity across both the magazine and the website.

The publication gave me the opportunity to work across a remarkably broad cultural landscape. Art, artists, exhibitions, fashion, literature, film, music and wider cultural subjects could all sit alongside one another, provided they had something interesting to say about the world we were living in.

That breadth was important. After Nyne was never intended to be a narrowly defined specialist publication. It was about curiosity — about following connections between different forms of creativity and discovering the stories that existed in the spaces between them.

Being Editor-in-Chief also gave me the chance to develop the particular editorial approach that still informs my work today: combining rigorous research with an accessible writing style, finding the human story behind a subject, and making cultural subjects feel engaging rather than remote or overly academic.

After Nyne's magazine and website became a substantial part of my professional identity during those years. It was where I developed much of my experience in commissioning, writing, editing, interviewing, researching and managing editorial content, while working across a constantly changing arts and media landscape.

Although After Nyne eventually became part of my professional past, its influence has continued.

The same fascination with art, film, literature, history and the stories behind creative people and their work runs through what I do now. My work with Celluloid & the City, my editorial work through Meadows Editorial, and my wider interest in arts and cultural history all have roots in the same instinct that drove After Nyne: to find fascinating stories, understand them properly, and tell them beautifully.

After Nyne was therefore more than a title on my CV. It was a formative chapter in my career — and the foundation of the broad arts-and-culture identity I continue to build today.