Most of my spare time is spent thinking about surrealism and the feminist avant-garde movements of the 1970s.
In an ongoing collaboration with the feminist-surrealist Penny Slinger, I curated a sold-out collage workshop and interview with the artist at Richard Saltoun Gallery to coincide with Women in Revolt! at Tate. To mark fifty years since Slinger performed ‘Bride’s Cake’ (1973), an artwork that upturned the patriarchal rituals surrounding marriage, I hosted a popular webinar with the artist for the International Society for the Study of Surrealism. And most recently, I interviewed Slinger about her solo exhibition, ‘Exorcism: Inside Out’, for The Art Universe’s Virtual Reality experience.
I’ve given papers on curation and postcolonialism, queerness and collage in surrealism and subversive craft in dadaism at Oxford University, Glasgow University and Exeter University.
I’ve led seminars on ‘Feminist-Surrealist Legacies’ and ‘Feminist-Surrealist Exhibitions’ for the University of Chicago and the Humboldt University of Berlin respectively, where my entrepreneurial editorial work inspired undergraduates to explore creative ways to disseminate their research.