Currently, I am working on an MPhil concerning the political and artistic complexities of widespread funding of the arts during FDR’s New Deal.

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My work on this is part of a wider interest in the possibilities of political movements to utilise the arts as effective means of forming narratives and catalysing public ponderance.

I am also looking into contemporary deployments of such strategies, notably but not exclusively, the use of targeted adverts by Cambridge Analytica in recent democratic events.

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if you know of anything (books, people, places) which may be of interest to me, I would love to hear more. Please send me an email →

Previously, I have worked on the Cambridge American Cemetery…

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…and optimism and digital art, specifically the work of net artists Thomson & Craighead.