TrAIN

TrAIN Core Member - Research Officer

I completed my BA at Winchester School of Art, and went on to specialise in modern and contemporary Latin American Art in the Department of History & Theory at the University of Essex. While completing my PhD there, I was also involved in organising exhibitions as curatorial advisor to the University’s collection of Latin American art. My PhD thesis concerned the work of artist Mira Schendel, who was born in Switzerland, grew up in Italy and came to Brazil in 1949. I focused on her dialogues with writers, philosophers and other artists, a network that centred on the city of Sao Paulo but was extended as she travelled and exhibited internationally.

Schendel was one of several Latin American artists to travel to the UK for a solo exhibition at Signals London (1964-1966). An interest in the time that she spent in this country, and in the activities of Signals London, was a starting point for a wider investigation of the presence and critical reception of art and artists from Latin America in the UK. I am interested in the media, methods and spaces for discussion and display that create networks of transnational contact within the field of Latin American art. I have recently completed research in this area as Research Fellow for Latin American Art & the UK, an AHRC research project at the University of Essex, for which I convened a panel on Transnational Latin America for the project’s final symposium in April 2008.

As TrAIN’s Research Officer my role is to contribute to the ongoing development of relevant collaborative research: within TrAIN, across the University of the Arts London, and with external partners.