The Female Gaze on Empire: Decolonising Missionary Photography
Supervisor: Professor Steve Edwards
Advisor: Dr Tom Young
Funded by CHASE
My research explores the role of British women missionaries as both producers and subjects of colonial photography, and examines how these images functioned ideologically within the imperial visual economy. Central to the project is a decolonial feminist methodology, interrogating the ways in which gender, race, and power intersect through photographic practices to construct a moral economy of empire.
Alongside my academic work, I work as a Curator at Art on the Underground, Transport for London’s contemporary art programme. Recent projects include, ‘we move through scales of blue’ by Phoebe Boswell, ‘Go Find Miracles’ by Rory Pilgrim, and ‘A Taste of Home’ by Joy Gregory. I am interested in the relationship between art, photography and social change. Central to both my curatorial and academic practices is a sustained interest in feminist, anti-racist and decolonial approaches to visual culture.
