Visual Culture in Britain
@vcib.bsky.social
Academic journal dedicated to exploring, expanding, rethinking, and re-imagining visual culture and Britain. Published by Taylor & Francis.
We are pleased to announce the PETE JAMES COLLECTION PRIZE 2026. The prize aims to support researchers with access to the collection and a prize of £1000.00 co-supported by Birmingham City Univeristy and our journal. Deadline for applications is 05 January 2026.
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October 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
We are pleased to announce the PETE JAMES COLLECTION PRIZE 2026. The prize aims to support researchers with access to the collection and a prize of £1000.00 co-supported by Birmingham City Univeristy and our journal. Deadline for applications is 05 January 2026.
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc...
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Introducing our editors: @saradominici.bsky.social, Gary Bratchford, Victoria Horne, and @ecoomasaru.bsky.social. Interested in publishing with us? Please do get in touch!
October 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Introducing our editors: @saradominici.bsky.social, Gary Bratchford, Victoria Horne, and @ecoomasaru.bsky.social. Interested in publishing with us? Please do get in touch!
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To celebrate the recent relaunch of Visual Culture in Britain, we are delighted to announce an ESSAY PRIZE for original research articles @vcib.bsky.social For more information please visit: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc... Thank you for sharing!
Visual Culture in Britain Essay Prize
Explore the article collection: Visual Culture in Britain Essay Prize. Published in Visual Culture in Britain.
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October 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
To celebrate the recent relaunch of Visual Culture in Britain, we are delighted to announce an ESSAY PRIZE for original research articles @vcib.bsky.social For more information please visit: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc... Thank you for sharing!
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....
Imperial Heritage on Trial: Keith Piper’s Viva Voce at Tate Britain
Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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September 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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....
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....
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...
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July 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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....
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....
Reimagining Wedgwood and the Politics of Pottery: Iris Moon’s Melancholy Wedgwood
Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2025)
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May 28, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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....
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....
Visual Politics of Pro-Palestine Protests: Youth Demand at the National Gallery
Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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May 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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....
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....
BUT THEN: Art in Northern Ireland and 'doing' British Visual Culture
Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2024)
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March 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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....
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....
Notes on the Emergency
Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2024)
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March 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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....
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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...
March 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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...
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....
Confronting the White Classical Body
Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2024)
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March 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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....
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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... .
February 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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... .
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On Photography and Care 📷🍏
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
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February 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
On Photography and Care 📷🍏
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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24 Years of Visual Culture in Britain: The Relaunch Issue
Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2021)
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March 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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’
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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....
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...
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December 2, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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....
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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!
December 2, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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!
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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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November 14, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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.
www.intellectbooks.com/crafted-with...
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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!
November 19, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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!
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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
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...
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November 18, 2024 at 8:39 AM
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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Welcome @vcib.bsky.social to 🦋!
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...
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...
November 18, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Welcome @vcib.bsky.social to 🦋!
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...
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’: 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...
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...
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November 18, 2024 at 10:51 AM
‘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...
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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.
November 10, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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.
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Doing this next week, it would be lovely to see London folks there #Tibet #Dissent #MaterialCulture #TheDissidentMuseum courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/tow...
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...
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November 16, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Doing this next week, it would be lovely to see London folks there #Tibet #Dissent #MaterialCulture #TheDissidentMuseum courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/tow...
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Looking forward to this: Annual Conference 2025, ‘Photography, Value, History’, Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe...
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…
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November 18, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Looking forward to this: Annual Conference 2025, ‘Photography, Value, History’, Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe...