Grand Eccentrics, Radical Forms: Sculptural Networks in American Counterculture
Supervised by Professor Jo Applin
Advised by Dr Lucy Bradnock
Funded by AHRC/CHASE
Focused on work by Paul Thek, John Outterbridge, Nicola L. and Marisol Escobar, my doctoral research examines how their practices upend and expose extant masculinist and heteronormative historiographies of post-war American sculpture, both demanding and producing a revision of sixties sculpture through the lens of racial inequality, feminism and queer studies.
My writing has appeared in Artforum, Art Monthly, Apollo, Burlington Contemporary, Texte zur Kunst, The Art Newspaper, The Burlington Magazine, Art History, and elsewhere.
Education
PhD History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 2024 –
MA History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 2014–15
Publications
- Review of Louise Bourgeois: Freud’s Daughter, edited by P. Larratt-Smith & Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child at Hayward Gallery, London, Sculpture Journal, 32 (1), March 2023
- Review of Jean-Jacques Lebel and French Happenings of the 1960s by Laurel Jean Fredrickson, Art History, 45 (1), February 2022
Research Interests
- Modern and contemporary art in the Americas
- Political aesthetics
- Queer histories