Career
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.
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).
