His doctoral thesis, Indifference. Art, Liberalism and the Politics of Place, (2015) examines the legacy of classical liberal thought in contemporary art commissioning. Through a series of cross readings between philosophy, aesthetic theory and political geography, it traces a relationship between location-driven art and liberalism’s conceptualisation of the way territory might function in a market society. Concurrently, the thesis maps a counter aesthetics of indifference, at large in art and literature since the mid nineteenth century, whereby indifference is mobilised by the critical modern subject in the attempt to disrupt both public and private power.

Research interests include:

Art and cultural policy, including the role of art in regional, national and international relations

Artistic approaches to knowledge; mixed methods research

Cities, especially London and its peripheries