Editorial Board 2023 - 2024

Georgia Gerson is a third-year PhD candidate in the History of Art department at the University of York. Her research is an interdisciplinary art-historical and sociological study that reconsiders the way value is constructed in the contemporary art market. In order to investigate this in a new, unique way, it takes as its case study the recent intervention into the market of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). She was recently awarded the 2024 Humanities Research Centre Doctoral Fellowship, recognising intellectual achievement and capacity to communicate high-quality research engagingly to a non-specialist audience.

Yuxuan Xiao is a PhD candidate in the History of Art department at the University of York. She received her MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from the University of Manchester in 2020, and her BA in Archaeology from Nanjing University in 2019. Her research aims to recontextualise the auction house’s exhibition space, traditionally associated with the commodification of art, in the light of curatorial practices concerning inclusion and exclusion and understand their interaction with the art world as an ecosystem.

Amélie Castellanet is a PhD candidate and her research project investigates how Dada exhibitions comprised original displays intended to engage the full range of the spectators’ senses, particularly the haptic. The haptic sense is understood here not only as the tactile quality of the artworks but also as the stimulation of the spectator’s feelings of tactility through the other senses. Amélie wrote her Master's dissertation on the Dadaist Raoul Hausmann at the Université Sorbonne in Paris and has recently completed a placement at the Berlinische Galerie in Berlin.

Clara Cheung is a part-time PhD student in the History of Art department at the University of York, and the director of the alternative art space, C & G Artpartment, which has recently relocated from Hong Kong to Sheffield, UK. The working title of her doctoral thesis is “To decolonise through art-history writing: a comparative study of the articulations of Hong Kong, Malaysian and Singaporean Art over international art exhibitions from the 1960s to 1970s".

Midori Kono is a PhD candidate, conducting research on James McNeill Whistler’s career as a portraitist under the supervision of Professor Liz Prettejohn. She received a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in Western Art History from the Tokyo University of the Arts, where her master’s thesis was awarded the Hirayama Ikuo Prize. Her current project, funded by JASSO (Japan Student Services Organization) and Nomura Foundation, explores how Whistler revitalized the tradition of grand manner portraiture while relating to his contemporary art scenes in London and Paris.

Michael is a PhD candidate jointly supervised by the University of York and York Art Gallery as part of an AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership. His research examines the art of John Flaxman and the relationships between his works in marble, ceramics, metal, and on paper. He previously received a BA and an MSt in History from the University of Oxford.

Robin is a second-year student on the Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management Masters programme. His research interests include Arts and Crafts stained glass, the influence of nineteenth century technology on the craft, and the semiotic materiality of glass and lead. He is grateful to be both an Anna Plowden and Zibby Garnett Scholar.