Cooper, Neil: 'Tommy Grace, Ged Quinn and Tony Swain: Restore us Regain', The List, 04/11/2010

Macmillian, Duncan: 'Art, Lessons from a past master on making a good impression.', The Scotsman Online, 21/10/2010

'topsy turvy', The Big issue Online, 27/09/2010

Swain, Tony: 'Tony Swain on how he paints', The Observer, 20/09/2010

'Tate Britain presents New Paintings by Glasgow-based artist Tony Swain', Art Knowledge News, 26/06/2009

Coomer, Martin: 'News Style', Big Issue, 18/05/2009

Black, Kara: 'Extract from her essay ‘This Is The Ticket’ in Tony Swain/Paintings', The New Paper, 08/2008

Lesso, Rosie: 'Review: Nick Evans and Tony Swain', The List Issue 597, 28/02/2008

Kennedy, Alexander: 'Nick Evans and Tony Swain', The List Issue 596, 14/02/2008

Leaver-Yap, Isla: 'Art and mud', The List Issue 578

Leaver-Yap, Isla: 'CONCRETE PLANES', Map Issue 11

Anderson, Randall: 'Tony Swain', Flash Art, 10/2006

Peter, Mick: 'Tony Swain', frieze Issue 102, 10/2006

Kennedy, Alexander: 'Tony Swain - The Flashes that Came to Stand For Us', The List, 07/2006

Harrison, Sara: 'Tony Swain', Art Monthly, 02/2006

Sumpter, Helen: 'Tony Swain', Time Out London, 01/2006

McDermott, Leon: 'Tony Swain', The Metro, 17/09/2004

Jeffrey, Moira: 'Showing vital spark', The Herald, 10/09/2004

McLaughlin, Aideen: 'Writings on the Wall', The Big Issue, 09/2004

James, Merlin: 'Munro, Pollard and Swain at Transmission', Transmission Newsletter, 04/2004

Figgis, Laurence: 'JP Munro, Alex Pollard, Tony Swain', Untitled

Price, Matt: 'Tony Swain, in Mixed Paint - A survey of contemporary painters', Flash Art International

Last Things I need Is The Shakes, in Tony Swain: Paintings, (monograph), The Modern Institute, (ed.) and DuMont Buchverlag, Glasgow and Cologne

Scotland & Venice 2003 2005 2007, Scottish Arts Council/ British Council/ National Galleries of Scotland/ The Scottish Government, Edinburgh

This Is A Ticket, in Tony Swain: Paintings, (monograph), The Modern Institute, (ed.) and DuMont Buchverlag, Glasgow and Cologne

Tony Swain: Paintings (monograph), The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow (co-publisher Du Mont Literatur und Kunst Verlag Glasgow and Cologne)

Scotland and Venice 2007, Scottish Arts Council, British Council Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland, Scotland

Creating the New Century, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton

Supernova, British Council, London