Writing
Everything I do that's broadly 'writing is here'. Fiction, Reviews, Gallery Texts, Articles, Etc. I'm also including Videos of readings and things like Podcasts and Radio. Finally, down the bottom is interviews (with me) and press (of my work).
I'm in the process of adding things to my Substack Doggang, adding context introductions and a full voice over recording for each piece. I'm starting with more recent fiction, but there are also a lot of things there that aren't anywhere else, such as unpublished stories and essays on film.
Fiction
2025
- "The Borrowed Car" and "Peripheral" are both included in GORE 3, as well as being available at Doggang linked at the top of the page. But you should buy the zine because there are some amazing pieces in there and I also did the illustrations.
- "Deadfall" (as well as a bunch of drawings) is included in I've had every deranged thought about... by Dudley Dream Walsh, and published by 2Queens, Leicester.
2024
2023
- "The Graveyard of Extension" is included in Deleuzine vol 2 She-Dogs. [If Goodpress no longer has a copy, I'm afraid youre just going to have to google as Deleuzine doesnt have a website.]
2022
- "The Speculative Dismemberment of Agent Leon Kennedy" is included in A Wet and Heavy Noise published by Market Gallery, Glasgow.
- "Waste Work" is included in TEXTUR 4 published by... TEXTUR in Berlin. You can buy the printed copy from them, or read the story for free either at the link, or on Doggang.
2020
- "As Plain as its Meaningless Name" is included in On Care. Published Ma Bibliothèque, London. By the time you read this, my story should also be up at Doggang.
2019
2018
- "Gauge Fanfic" is included in The Bodies that Remain. Published by Punctum Books, Santa Barbara.
- "Axpansion" is included in PaperWork Issue 3: Iilwimi lipsing. Published by... Paperwork, London. This was a kind of TTRPG, and you can now get it for free from my Itch page.
- "Farmer 9" is included in Alembic. Pubished by Res., London. This is up on Doggang.
Reviews
2025
- I reviewed "A Gathering: Newcastle University Post-Graduate Degree Show" for Corridor8
2023
- I reviewed "Middlesbrough Art Week 2023" for Corridor8.
- I reviewed "Two Plus Two Makes Four: The Auxiliary, Middlesbrough" for Corridor8.
Gallery Texts
2025
- I wrote a text entitled "The Animal Double" for AXIS to accompany a selection of artists' work that I curated.
2024
2023
- I wrote a text entited "Trans Death Magic: Queer Death and Queer Escape" for Slug Town, Newcastle.
Articles
2025
- "Love as vector and void in Luce Irigaray’s 'The Natal Lacuna' and Tai Shani’s 'Phantasmagoregasm'" is forthcoming in JAWS: Journal of Art and Writing, Intellect Books.
Etc
2025
- As part of the AXIS Fellowship myself an Hannah produced a dialogue entited "Six Questions; Hannah Leighton-Boyce and Uma Breakdown" for AXIS
2021
- I made a series of relief print illustrations for Holly White’s publication "Leaving Biosphere 2". CCA, Glasgow. [I know its not writing, but where else is it going to go?"
2020
- I made an illustation entilted 'Oh_The _Guilt_Puss_3' for "Chain/Mail Issue 1: North East" published by Corridor8.
- I made a toolkit for artists interested in using TTRPG mechanics for NewBridge Project.
2019
- With Elena Colman and Rebecca Bligh I co-edited "Horse Bites Fence", as well as doing some illustrations, a few short stories, and making webgame to go with it. This is a Arts Council England funded publication concerning art, disability, and radical solidarity, and features interviews with Willem Helf and Hestia Peppe. You can find the game, extended versions of the interviews, and a link to download the zine here, while hard copies are possible still available for freee in various art bookshops around the country.
Videos
2023
- "Johanna Hedva and Uma Breakdown in Conversation" at FACT Liverpool.
- "Don't Starve Together with Uma Breakdown and Eleanor Dare"Etc Galerie, Prague.
- Artist video for my game "Take The Moonlight by The Tail" for when it was show as part of Hinterlands at Baltic, Gateshead.
2021
- "Open Screen panel discussion: technology, disability arts + the online space" at Arebyte.
- "Broken Vibes" was a talk on game jank, presented at Merged Futures 3
Podcasts and Radio
2023
- "Uma Breakdown and Johanna Hedva talk LA Noir". Which is a podcast of myself and Hedva talking mostly about depictions of Gothic LA in cinema. It was done as part of my Abandon Normal Devices residency, and is in two parts which are neatly labelled 1 and 2.
2017
- HERETICS #12 by Diana Policarpo - Guest Mix by Alison Ballance & Alice Rekab (17/10/17). My Resident Evil radio play "The Keeper's Diary" was recording for this special show on Radio Quantica. It was playted again a few years later on Dublin Digital Radio but I cant find a link for that!
Press and interviews
2023
- "‘Hinterlands’ at BALTIC, Newcastle" reviewd by Dr. Crystal Bennes and Tom Jeffreys for The Penitent Review
- "Uma Breakdown: Earth A.D. 2 FACT, Liverpool" reviewed by Emeri Curd for Corridor8
- "SAVE ROOM Morgan talks with Uma Breakdown about their exhibition 'Earth A.D. 2' at FACT Liverpool, discussing horror gaming, coffins as reparative care and the power of bio-mechanics and chaos." which is an interview Morgan Jennings did with me for Container
- "An interview with Uma Breakdown" by Patrick Kirk-Smith for Art in Liverpool
2021
- "Unfolding Shrines is some of the most ambitious augmented reality art we have seen in the last year" in The Art Newspaper
- "Free Your Mind. Death Will Come" which is Johanna Hedva's interview with my about my work on the Post-Doom residency at Akademie Solitude
2020
- "In Conversation: Uma Breakdown and Lesley Taker", which was an interview on my work during the first FACT TOGETHER Fellowship at FACT Liverpool.
2019
- "Art, the Anthropocene, and the grim, dark future of Warhammer 40K" By Tom Jeffreys for Roman Road Journal
2016
- "(It’s All) Tropical present Blind Date The Royal Standard, Liverpool by James Harper in Corridor8
- "Review: Blind Date: (it’s all) Tropical at The Royal Standard" by Patrick Kirk-Smith in Art in Liverpool