Thesis title: Harlem through Britain: the transnational impacts of the Harlem Renaissance through imperial networks, ca 1919-1969
Supervisors: Professor Dorothy Price and Dr Hilary Floe (Tate)
Funded by: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership
Education
Ph.D. student, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 2021 – present
M.A. Twentieth Century Art History, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Postgraduate Diploma, Arts Management, Birkbeck College, University of London
B.A. (joint Hons), History & Theory of Art and English Language, University of Kent
Writing
‘Crafting Resistance: Karen McLean’s Stitching Souls,’ Visual Culture in Britain, 28 May 2025
Zero is Nothing… and Everything: Zarah Hussain, Art UK, 2024
Editorial, Immediations, issue 20, 2023
Summer, Tate Publishing, 2020
‘A Phantom of the Road’ in Jacobi, C. (ed.) Van Gogh and Britain. London: Tate Publishing, 2019
Catalogue essay tracing the reception and interpretation of Van Gogh on Britain and British artists between 1937 – 1957.
Tate Introductions: Van Gogh. London: Tate Publishing, 2019
‘Contemporary Sensibilities’ in Crippa, E. ‘All Too Human’. London: Tate Publishing, 2018
Catalogue entries in Elliott, D. Art From Elsewhere: International Contemporary Art From UK Galleries. London: Hayward Publishing, 2014
‘Conception, Reception’, March 2005
AAH Conference 2005, University of Bristol.
‘Site and Translation in the Age of Squanto.’ Paper interrogating the increasing mobility of site-specific works.
Related work history
- Associate Lecturer, ‘Topics: Contemporary Art in London Collections’, The Courtauld, 2024-25
- Guest Lecturer, MA Black Futures, The Courtauld, 2025
- Teaching Assistant, ‘Foundations’, The Courtauld, 2023-24
- Guest Lecturer, ‘Global African Arts’, CIEE, 2023-24
- Editor-in-Chief, Immediations Issue 20, 2023
- Curator, Festival UK 2022, with Tate National Partnerships the European Space Agency and Holition, 2020-21
- Curator (mat cover), Tate Britain, 2019-20
- Guest Lecturer, University of Virginia Summer School, 2018-19
- Assistant Curator, Tate Britain, 2017-19
- Assistant Curator, Hayward Touring, 2010-16
- Curatorial intern, Prints & Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002
Grants and Awards
Centre for the Art of the Americas, Research Travel Grant (2024)
Association for Art History, Grants for Art History (2024)
Research Support Grant, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (2023)
Centre for American Art, Research Travel Grant to the United States (2023)
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship (2021-2025)