Grand Eccentrics, Radical Forms: Sculptural Networks in American Counterculture
Supervised by Professor Jo Applin
Advised by Dr Lucy Bradnock
Funded by
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,Ìýand elsewhere. I have also worked with international galleries such as Hauser & Wirth and Maximillian William.
Education
PhD History of Art, 91ÖÆƬ³§, 2024 –
MA History of Art,Ìý 91ÖÆƬ³§, 2014–15
Publications
- Review of Criticism Without Authority: Gene Swenson’s and Jill Johnston’s Queer PracticesÌýby Jennifer Sichel, Art History, 48 (5), November 2025
- Review ofÌý,Ìýedited by P. Larratt-Smith &ÌýLouise Bourgeois: The Woven ChildÌýat Hayward Gallery, London,ÌýSculpture Journal, 32 (1), March 2023
- Review of by Laurel Jean Fredrickson, Art History, 45 (1), February 2022
Conference papers
‘Paul Thek’s Pink Triangle: Towards a Queer Resistance’, 2026 Association of Art History Conference, University of Cambridge
Teaching
Teaching Assistant, BA1 Foundations (2025-26)
Research Interests
- Modern and contemporary art in the Americas
- Political aesthetics
- Queer histories