Talks & lectures
Recorded Talks
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Watermarks: Environmental Contingencies and the Turner Bequest
Turner 250, Tate Britain, London · December 2025 — Watch
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‘See Britain First on Shell’: Modernism, Imperialism, and the British Petroleum Industry
Talk on Shell Oil and The Artist’s View of an Industry · Extractivism/Activism, The Paul Mellon Centre and Autograph, London · March 2023 — Watch
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Turner’s Pencil: Graphite Landscapes and Extractive Industry
J.M.W. Turner: State of the Field Symposium, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven · September 2023 — Watch
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Minerals of the Island: Tracing the Fossil Landscapes of the 1951 Festival of Britain
British Art and Natural Forces, A State of the Field Research Programme, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London · October 2020 — Watch
Selected Presentations
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Graphite, Coal, and Diamonds: Carbon Allotropes, Pencils, and British Nineteenth-Century Extractive Industry
The Geological Imagination in the Art of the Long Nineteenth Century, The Huntington Library, San Marino · April 2025
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Petro-modernism: Artistic Commissions from BP and Shell
Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil, Online Symposium · March 2025
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Modern Wastelands: Slag Landscapes in Twentieth-Century British Art
A Legacy of Landscape, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven · December 2024
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Crude Oils: Petroleum Culture in Twentieth Century Britain
New Perspectives in Energy History, Yale University, New Haven · March 2024