My thesis explored the questions and problems which accompanied the critical discourse about how to articulate and promote a shared ‘Latin American’ identity in the 1970s. It began with a discussion of Marta Traba’s arguments against the internationalism of the art world and her strategies for resisting what she had identified as the pernicious effects of globalised modernity. Focussing on the revived interest in print and printmaking, the ‘only true vanguard’ art form in Latin America according to Traba, the thesis advanced new readings of the contrasting conceptions of identity proposed by Traba, Juan Acha, Vilém Flusser, and Frederico Morais.
Education
- PhD, The Courtauld Institute of Art (2019 – 2024)
- MA History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art (2017 – 2018)
- BA Modern Languages, University of Bristol (2013 – 2017)
Research Interests
- Twentieth-century art and printmaking
- Cold War art and politics
- Modernism and modernity
Conference Papers and Reviews
‘Semi-Mechanical Print Tactics and Urban Interventions in Mexico City (1971–82)’, AAH Annual Conference, Brighton, 2018.
‘Finding Space to Play: Xerox Art in Brazil, 1980 – 1982’, Virtual Encounters, University of East Anglia, 2021.
‘Performing Prints: Grupo Suma’s Stencil Works’, Emerging Researchers, Durham University’s Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American art & Edinburgh College of Art , 2021.
Review of ¡Printing the Revolution!; The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now, Washington: Smithsonian American Art: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. In Critique d’art Actualité de la littérature critique sur l’art contemporain, Spring 2021.
Teaching
- Teaching Assistant, BA1 Foundations, Autumn Term 2020, The Courtauld Institute of Art.
- Associate Lecturer, BA2 Cold War Cultures: Art in a Divided World 1945 – 1991, Autumn Term 2021-2022, The Courtauld Institute of Art.
- Associate Lecturer, MA Countercultures: Alternative Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America 1959-1989, Autumn Term 2022-2023, The Courtauld Institute of Art.
- Associate Lecturer, BA2 Learning from Paris: War, Internationalism, Postmodernism, Spring Term 2025, The Courtauld Institute of Art.
Other Activities
- Teaching Assistant at The Courtauld’s Summer School, 2020.
- Associate Editor at immediations, 2019 – 2020.