Histories, theories and practices of modern and contemporary art, photography, artist's film and video, sound arts, digital media/post-media arts, AI art; practice-based arts research; museums and galleries; art writing; the essay form; philosophies of the image; semiotic and non-representational theories of the image; the visual dimensions of white racial knowledge; the image of whiteness; sociology of race/racism; sociology of art; sociology of taste; sociology of the internet; critical philosophy of race; critical race theory; critical whiteness studies; critical pedagogy; white complicity pedagogy; white self-criticality beyond anti-racism; white mastery; white ignorance; white self-disclosure; white authorship; white ambush; white vigilance.

I welcome PhD supervisees from across creative arts practice, particularly in post-digital, post-internet and AI as it intersects with social research into race, racialisation and critical whiteness studies.

My approach to supervision is grounded in critical pedagogy and student-centred learning. I provide an open, supportive, and generous space for discussing ideas, in which we can learn from each other and discover new ideas and methods together.

Please feel welcome to email me if you would like to informally discuss your research proposal.

I hold degrees in Sound Arts and Design (BA Hons) from University of the Arts London, Communication Art and Design (MPhil) from the Royal College of Art and Sociology (PhD) from King’s College London.

I have taught at the University of Brighton since 2010 and in 2017 took up a permanent teaching and research role in the School of Art and Media. From 2023-present I am Visiting Lecturer in Social Sciences at King's College London. In 2022 I was Carmen Mortensen Endowed Visiting Scholar in Art and Art History at University of Utah; in 2019 I was Visiting Scholar at Yale Centre For British Art, Yale University; and from 2016-19 I was Visiting Lecturer in Historical and Critical Studies at the Royal College of Art. Since 2010 I have worked in various lecturing and tutoring roles internationally, at Camberwell College of Arts, Coventry University, Goldsmiths College, Royal Academy of Art The Hague, University of Copenhagen, University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, Photography Studies College Melbourne, University of the Arts London and University of Oxford.

I have contributed to publications including 1000 Words, Aperture, Foam, frieze, Granta, The Guardian, Philosophy of Photography, Photography and Culture, Photoworks, Vogue Italia, and exhibition catalogues and scholarly books from Manchester Art Gallery, UCL Art Museum, Art Museum of Estonia, FOMU Belgium, the Australian Centre for Photography, Routledge and Rowman & Littlefield. I have presented research publicly at institutions including Tate Modern, MoMA PS1, Yale Centre for British Art and Open Eye Gallery Liverpool. 

My first edited book, The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization, was published by SPBH Editions and Art on the Underground in 2019, with a second edition published by SPBH/MACK in 2022. I am currently working on a monograph provisionally titled Not the Light: The Image in the White Racial Frame (Bloomsbury Philosophy, forthcoming), continuing my research into the visual dimensions of racial whiteness.

My art practice is informed by long term social research projects and includes photogaphy, digital media, data visualisation, drawing, text, sound and performance. In this I hope to parody, humourise and critique commonly consumed, sensed or technologised objects usually taken for granted, revealing the strange ways their meanings are bound up in social systems such as racial whiteness, exoticism and bourgeois taste. I have presented work at University of Brighton, Vogue Photo Festival, Frieze London, Phoenix Art Space and Tate Britain.

I have experience producing research and publications for large public arts institutions and small galleries. From 2006-09 I was curator at the Grade I listed Fulham Palace, and from 2012-19 I worked in Education and as Editor at The Photographers’ Gallery, programming talks and events, and commissioning and editing writing both online and in print. From 2013-15 I co-curated Chandelier, a collaborative project space in the studio of artist Karen Knorr. I have also presented research and writing at Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art New York, Yale Centre for British Art and Open Eye Gallery Liverpool. Some of this work has been funded by Arts Council England, The Elephant Trust and Art on the Underground/Mayor of London.

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