University of Nottingham

Faculty Member, Art History

Lecturer in Art History

About

BA University College London (1999) MA Courtauld Institute of Art (2001)   
PhD Courtauld Institute of Art (2005, Supervisor: Professor Mignon Nixon)

Broadly speaking, my interests are in American and European art since 1945, with an emphasis on art of the 1960s and its legacies. I have particular expertise in Minimal, post-Minimal and Conceptual art and the practice of drawing within these contexts. My research and teaching are informed by feminist theory, psychoanalysis and poststructuralism. In addition to catalogue essays and reviews, I have published articles in the scholarly journals Art History, October and Tate Papers, a further article is forthcoming in Word and Image. I am an editor of the Oxford Art Journal and a regular reviewer for Artforum magazine.  Please see my University of Nottingham homepage (weblink below) for a full list of publications.

I am currently working on a book, provisionally entitled Drawing Degree Zero: The Line from Minimal to Conceptual Art. The book explores the radical reconfiguration of the drawing medium that took place during the late 1960s and early 70s, a pivotal moment in the recent history of art. While drawing has traditionally been considered a preparatory or subsidiary practice, I argue that it was central to the development of Conceptual art and the dissolution of sculptural form that occurred concurrently. This led to a resurgence of interest in drawing amongst practitioners, curators and collectors that continues today. By considering the strategies pioneered by Mel Bochner, Sol LeWitt, Dorothea Rockburne and Richard Tuttle, amongst others; I highlight drawing's ability to foreground issues of process, location and participation that remain fundamental to contemporary artistic practice.

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