Stephen McNeilly

Stephen McNeilly (born 1968) is a London based artist and writer whose research-lead practice includes photography, filmmaking, curating and book publishing. He is Editor of the Swedenborg Society, London, and Curator of its annual Swedenborg International Short Film Festival and Artist in Residence programme. In 2010 he curated Fourteen Interventions, a multi-disciplinary site responsive exhibition at Swedenborg house, which included work by Jeremy Deller, Bridget Smith, Iain Sinclair, Ben Judd and Olivia Plender.
His long-standing interest in the work of Emanuel Swedenborg informs much of his recent work and he has published on writers as diverse as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Arthur Cravan. In 2011 he set up the Swedenborg Archive imprint, a collaborative project which has included contributions from the writers Iain Sinclair and Brian Catling, and the publisher Book Works. As series editor of the Journal of the Swedenborg Society he has produced a number of volumes exploring the cultural influence of Swedenborg including Between Method and Madness, The Arms of Morpheus, In Search of the Absolute and On the True Philosopher. Notable contributors to the Journal include the poet Czeslaw Milosz and the Cambridge linguist John Chadwick. Annalisa Volpone has described the Journal as a 'mapping of the impact of Swedenborg's thought on the western literary imaginaire from romanticism to contemporary times'.
McNeilly is a founding editor of Dedecus Press, an interdisciplinary and collaborative publishing project, and is the overseeing editor for the Dedecus Dictionary and the Dedecus Picture Archive. Between 2004 and 2012 he was a visiting lecturer in Art, Philosophy and Critical Theory at the University of Creative Arts (Canterbury).

• 2013 Swimming to Heaven: The Lost Rivers of London, an essay by Iain Sinclair, (book), Editor. ISBN 978-0854481798
• 2013 Philosophy, Literature, Mysticism: an anthology of essays on the thought and influence of Emanuel Swedenborg (book), Editor. ISBN 978-0854481613
• 2012 Several Clouds Colliding (book), Editor. ISBN 978-1906012410
• 2012 D T Suzuki: manuscripts and letters (exhibition), Curator, London.
• 2012 Memoirs of Swedenborg (book), Editor. ISBN 978-0854481682
• 2011 Blake's London: the Topographic Sublime, an essay by Iain Sinclair (book), Editor. ISBN 978-0854481705
• 2010 Heaven, Hell and Other Places (documentary), Producer, ISBN 978-0854481736
• 2010 Fourteen Interventions (exhibition), curator, London.
• 2010 Introducing the Mystic: an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson (publication), Editor/author ISBN 978-0854481569
• 2010 Art lands on Alien Landscape (exhibition/catalogue), Margate.
• 2008 Dedecus: A Dictionary Pt, 2 (publication), Author. ISBN 978-0955547225
• 2008 Dedecus: A Dictionary Pt, 1 (publication), Author. ISBN 978-0955547218
• 2008 Maintenant, Pt, 1 (publication) Editor/Author. ISBN 978-0955547249
• 2007 Rub-a-dub-dub (three person exhibition with Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan) Switzerland.
• 2007 The Arms of Morpheus (book), Editor. ISBN 978-0854481507
• 2006 George Berkeley's Commonplace Book (book), Editor. ISBN 978-0955547201
• 2005 Vertigo Gallery (solo exhibition), London.
• 2005 Between Method and Madness (book), Editor. ISBN 978-0854481453
• 2004 in Search of the Absolute (book), Editor. ISBN 978-0854481415
• 2002 on the True Philosopher (book), Editor. ISBN 978-0854481347
• 2001 on the Translator and the Latin Text; essays by John Chadwick (book), Editor. ISBN 978-0854481316
• 1996 Bonnington Gallery, The Margaret Bryan Award, (two person exhibition with Lotte Hammer) Nottingham.

• "Several Clouds Colliding". Book Art Newsletter. Impact Press (76). Sep–Oct 2012. ISSN 1754-9086. 
• "D T Suzuki: an exhibition of manuscripts, letters and other items". Retrieved June 2011. 
• Brock, Erland (Jan–Jun 2012). "Book Reviews". The New Philosophy. The Swedenborg Scientific Association. 
• Carrier, Dan (23 Feb 2012). "Blake's London". Camden New Journal. 
• "Heaven, Hell and Other Places". Retrieved 4 April 2010. 
• "14 Interventions". resonance fm. Retrieved 25 February 2010. 
• "Art Lands on Alien Landscape". Critical Network. Retrieved March 2011. 
• "RUB-A-DUB-DUB". exex. Retrieved June 2007. 
• Henke, Ulrike (24 May 2007). "Review". Tagblatt. 
• "Live Art Archive". Bristol University.