CV

V&A / UCL

AHRC-funded PhD

Project title: ‘Invisible Hands: Migrant Labour and British Craft in the Long Eighteenth Century’

V&A / Royal College of Art

MA in History of Design

Distinction (dissertation)

University of Cambridge

BA in History of Art

First-Class

Central Saint Martin's

Foundation Diploma in Art & Design

Spatial Design pathway

Condé Nast

Archive Assistant

At Condé Nast, my role involved researching and working with the historical collections of fashion and design magazines such as British Vogue, The World of Interiors and House & Garden, as well as the Cecil Beaton Archive.

Phillips

Intern, Design

For Phillips, I researched and wrote catalogue essays on twentieth-century design featuring in the bi-annual London Design auctions.

V&A

Furniture Department Placement

In August 2024, I assisted the V&A's furniture curator with the initial planning of the 2025 redisplay of the furniture galleries.

Textiles Department Placement

From June to August 2024, I assisted the V&A's curator of textiles in researching the museum's collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English tapestries.

Pooky Lighting

Showroom Artist and Designer

I spent two summers as a freelance artist and designer for Pooky Lighting, working on their stand at the Decorex furniture fair. In 2022, I designed and hand-painted neoclassical features around the stand, and in 2023, I designed a 1960s inspired geometric tiled floor still used by Pooky at Decorex today.