Research interests
I am a Course Organiser on the MScR in Collections and Curating Practices. This taught module involves collaborations with the Fruitmarket Gallery, the National Gallery of Scotland, the Talbot Rice Gallery, the Centre for Research Collections, the National Museum of Scotland and the National Library of Scotland. I am particularly interested in decolonial curation methodologies, colonial archives and issues surrounding the restitution of objects.
I am Course Organiser on the modules Towards a Global History of Photography, Latin American Photographies and Archives of Dissent. I am particularly interested in missionary photography and AI photography.
My work is inter-disciplinary and I'm particularly interested in the intersection of art history and technology. My current project explores feminist art activism in Latin America exploring the links between embodied embroidery practices and online solidarity practices. My previous research was on the surrealist artist Violeta Parra. My first monograph Violeta Parra's Visual Art: Painted Songs won the LASA Southern Cone Section book prize in 2021 and another monograph on Parra is in press.
My work on Violeta Parra was funded by the AHRC. My work on activist embroidery was funded by the Leverhulme Trust and I have also been awarded grants by the British Academy and a variety of smaller funders.
Most recently, I was awarded Alborada funding for a collaboration with a partner at the University of Ghana. We worked on a project in the field of museum studies, which explored African art and issues surrounding the restitution of objects.
I have curated a festival of Latin American art, two online 3D interactive exhibitions and a variety of public humanities exhibitions in unconventional spaces. I co-curated What lies Beneath: Women Politics Textiles for the Women's Art Collection and was consulted by the curators at the Barbican for the exhibition Unravel.