Visual Culture in Britain

Imperial Heritage on Trial: Keith Piper’s Viva Voce at Tate Britain Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Elisabetta Garletti examines "the power imbalance that endures in curatorial reframings where the hosting museum retains the authority over alleged decolonizing narratives, which ultimately reveal themselves to be mere attempts to safeguard institutional survival" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Women’s Work? Women Artists at the 1897 Victorian Era Exhibition In 1897, as part of a wide-ranging exhibition to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, Henrietta Rae curated a display of artworks by over 180 women. Analysing architectural plans, press revi...

Just published: Victoria Munn's article argues that "the Woman’s Work section at the 1897 Victorian Era Exhibition proclaimed women’s collective progress in, and contribution to, art in the Victorian era" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reimagining Wedgwood and the Politics of Pottery: Iris Moon’s Melancholy Wedgwood Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2025)

Caterina Franciosi reviews Iris Moon’s recent book 'Melancholy Wedgwood' (2024, @mitpress.bsky.social) as "a provocative and original contribution to the intertwined histories of capitalism and decorative arts" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Visual Politics of Pro-Palestine Protests: Youth Demand at the National Gallery Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Esme Garlake reviews @youth-demand.bsky.social's recent protest at the National Gallery, to reflect on the visual politics of pro-Palestine activism: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

BUT THEN: Art in Northern Ireland and 'doing' British Visual Culture Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2024)

Rachel Warriner examines American artist Jimmie Durham’s work in 1980s Northern Ireland, who implicated the Irish diaspora in US settler colonialism and saw parallels between structures of oppression across continents, to rethink a "British" art history: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Notes on the Emergency Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2024)

Nicholas Mirzoeff examines the politics of contemporary Palestinian visual culture and solidarity movements resisting settler colonialism, to critically interrogate British complicity in the region's past and present: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Visual Culture in Britain cover with image by Hardeep Dhindsa titled "Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius (digital illustration, 2021)

So pleased to announce that the relaunch issue of @vcib.bsky.social is OUT! Huge thanks to all the contributors for helping us create this. Our cover features @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social's work and you can read more about it and so much more here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rvcb20/2...

Confronting the White Classical Body Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2024)

Hardeep Singh Dhindsa considers how 18th-century classical studies constructed modern ideas of racial whiteness, using contemporary illustration to challenge the worldviews such sculptures came to represent (we are delighted to feature on our latest cover) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

You are invited to the Photoecologies Study Group, a new space for exploring photography as an environmental, elemental and energetic assemblage. To find out more about and register to attend our upcoming events, see our eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.com/o/photoecolo... .

photographies On Photography and Care, Edited by Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad, Elin Haugdal, Stephanie von Spreter and Hanne Hammer Stien. Volume 18, Issue 1 of photographies

On Photography and Care 📷🍏

24 Years of Visual Culture in Britain: The Relaunch Issue Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2021)

We are thrilled to announce the journal's relaunch editorial, reflecting on the publication's 25-year-history & our vision for its future: considering changes & continuities for both Britain & visual culture since 2000, fostering a space of ‘epistemic generosity’

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The Indexical Trace: A Visual Interpretation of the History of Fingerprinting in Colonial India The invention of dactylography in the nineteenth century was inextricably linked to the imperial encounter between the British and their colonial subjects in India. Represented as a scientific tech...

From our archive — Mira Rai Waits explores the history of fingerprinting in India under British rule (2016, 17:1), examining how the scientific technology was bound up in a politics of identification and classification, embedded in colonial infrastructures: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tomorrow, I’ll be talking about journal publishing and @vcib.bsky.social for @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social — if you’re interested in writing for us, get in touch!

Hi new followers! Using this as a shameless plug to (re)introduce my book ‘Crafted with Pride’ which includes contributions from academics, activists, artists and curators on LGBTQ+ material culture 🏳️‍🌈🪧🪡 Published with Intellect and Uni of Chicago Press.

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Tomorrow, I’ll be giving a lecture at @newcastleuni.bsky.social on queer ecologies and anti-colonial abundance in Sri Lankan art. The event will start at 5:15pm in the Fine Art seminar room of the King Edward VII Building. All welcome!

Landed Histories: Ecology, Power and Politics in Digital and Lens-based Practices - Conferences and study days at V&A South Kensington · V&A This symposium brings together artists, academics and researchers to address the critical potential of digital and lens-based practices, as a means for the exploration of history and ecology in the Mi...

Symposium at the V&A on Nov 30th (£5), in conjunction with the Jameel Prize exhibition and a new commission by Morehshin Allahyari, focus is on Middle East, South Asia, ecology, Islam. Full programme at same link, plus online curator talk on Nov 28th. 📜 #ArtHistory #ContemporaryArt

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I am so excited to be one of the new editors-in-chief. The journal is relaunching later this year and we're now accepting articles and reviews for publication in 2025. More info here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...

Postcards from the Apocalypse: Patrick Keiller’s London and the Legacies of Victorian Realism This article examines the way Patrick Keiller’s ‘Robinson’ film trilogy – and in particular the film London – draws on forms, images, and ideas from Victorian literary and visual culture. Like many...

‘Postcards from the Apocalypse’: Tanya Agathocleous’ article from our archive (17:13, 2016) explores ways in which literature and film have imagined London in ruins, between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries: doi.org/10.1080/1471...

We wanted to find the people writing about photography so we've made a starter pack. Let us know if there's anyone w should add.

Towards a Tibetan Material Culture of Dissent Join Dr. Emma Martin as she explores the intersection of Tibetan social movements and material culture in the Tibet Museum, revealing how the museum's curatorial approach uses non-violent resistance t...

Doing this next week, it would be lovely to see London folks there #Tibet #Dissent #MaterialCulture #TheDissidentMuseum courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/tow...

Annual Conference 2025 Photography, Value, History Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 16-17 June 2025 Where: Hybrid event, Online and at De Montfort University, Leicester. F…

Looking forward to this: Annual Conference 2025, ‘Photography, Value, History’, Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe...