PhD supervisor:ÌęDr Emily Floyd and Dr Nicholas Robbins
Working title for PhD:ÌęTransient Visuals: Hand-Held Ephemera in Nineteenth-Century Peru
My doctoral research project analyses a range of ephemeral hand-held media and their visual, cultural, and historical significance in the context of nineteenth-century Peru. A focus lies on identifying the role that these media played in challenging predominant norms around religion, politics, sexuality and identity formation, as satirical commentary, or subversive societal critique. Falling outside of what has traditionally been defined as visual arts, these portable objects include, but are not limited to, cartes-de-visite, promotional cards, playing cards, and separately sold single sheets of cartoons and illustrations that were made in Lima using different printing and photographic reproduction techniques.
Publications:Ìę
âMaya Stanfield-Mazzi: Clothing the New World Churchâ (review), Object, Volume 23, Issue 1, 2022
(Ed) Amy By Ram (London: DPH Production, 2018)
âLaura Esquivel and Like Water for Chocolateâ, The Protagonist Magazine, Issue 04, 2018
âNights of Sleepless Love: Federico GarcĂa Lorcaâ, The Protagonist Magazine, Issue 04, 2018
âMark Jessett: Abstractions In Colourâ, The Protagonist Magazine, Issue 04, 2018
âEdward Linley Sambourne â A Victorian Cartoonistâ, The Protagonist Magazine, Issue 3, 2017
âLawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquityâ, The Protagonist Magazine, Issue 03, 2017
âJean Painleveâs Visual Poetryâ, The Protagonist Magazine, Issue 03, 2017
âUncovering Leighton and the Influence of his Musesâ, The Protagonist Magazine, Issue 02, 2016
âThe Art of Pochoir â The Golden Age of Illustration in Parisâ, The Protagonist Magazine, Issue 01, 2016
âThe Danger of âTravellingâ Theories and how to make International Relations Theory more Internationalâ, Archipelago Journal, Issue 01, 2013
Awards
- Thoma Foundation Art of the Spanish Americas Exploratory Travel Award Fall 2022
- London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) Open Studentship Award 2022-2023
- Association for Art History Doctoral & Early Career Research Bursary 2022
- Senior Fellowship of The Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
- Artes-CEEH Travel Scholarship 2021-22
- Nominated for ACTA Award for Best Photography Exhibition 2018 with Ram Shergill âExoskeletonâ, Leica Gallery West Hollywood, Los Angeles
- POLSIS International Relations Prize 2012, best dissertation in the department of political science, University of Birmingham
- Christ College Brecon Academic Scholarship 2007
- Nolan Powell Art Travel Award 2007
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Conference Papers and Presentations:
âThe Intelligent Player: An Education in Playing Cardsâ, Intelligent Houses and Gardens / IntĂ©rieurs et jardins intelligents: The rhetoric of domestic objects and of their representations in the British Isles and the American Colonies from the late 16th century to the late 18th century, Panel: âDomestic Practicesâ, Sorbonne Nouvelle, 8 December 2022
âStaging a Veiled Oxymoron between Liberation and Prohibition: The Tapada in Nineteenth-Century Peruâ, Emerging Researchers Symposium, Transgression and Liminality in Iberian and Latin American Art, Panel âReconsidering the Borders of the Mind and the Bodyâ, Durham University, 8 July 2022
âFlutter, Swoosh and Thwack: Resistance in a Playing Card Deck in Nineteenth-Century Limaâ, PILAS Annual Conference, Repair, Resistance, and Resilience in Latin America, Panel âArtistic Resistance in Material Cultureâ, Cambridge University, 7 July 2022
âGlobal Exchanges: A Narrative Playing Card Deck in Nineteenth-Century Limaâ, Graduate Symposium, Cross-Pollination: New Modes of Comparison, Panel: âTrans-Medialityâ, University of Oregon, 9 April 2022
âThe Narrative of a Playing Card Deck in Nineteenth-Century Limaâ, Association for Art History (AAH), Annual Conference, Panel: Transnationality in the Nineteenth-Century: âDecolonising Networks of Exchange, Circulation and Exhibitionâ, AAH, 8 April 2022
ÌęâFound in Translation: Navigating Language in Researchâ, Panel Event funded by the History of Art Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Board, MyAV·¶ History of Art Department, 3 June 2021
, PhD Research Projects 2020 â Exhibition & Conference, MyAV·¶ Bartlett School of Architecture, 18 February 2020
âA Career in Arts Publishingâ, Careers Panel MSc Marketing, 2018
âPersonal Branding and Creative Marketingâ, Ravensbourne, 2018
âArts Journalism and Independent Publishingâ, Plymouth College of Art, 2017
âCurating an Exhibitionâ, Falmouth University, 2016
Media appearances/outreach workÌę
- Sambourne House, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Museums, London, UK 2021
Researcher, Writer & Director of a four-part documentary seriesÌę"Calling at the Sambournes"
âą liaised with archivists and carryied out archival research to conceptualise and produce episodes
âą wrote scripts, directed and presented: - Ram Shergill Photographic Archive & The National Portrait Gallery, London, UK 2018
Acquisition Manager, Editor and Publisher of the book âAmy by Ramâ
âą managed the acquisition of photographic prints of Amy Winehouse on behalf of the artist Ram Shergill
âą conceptualised a book publication based on research at the photographerâs archive
âą commissioned contributors and oversaw production of the publication
âą developed a social media promotion plan with the team at the NPG
âą managed international sales of the artist book and press coverage in GQ, LâOfficiel, BBC radio