Images and objects occupy a central role in my research. Here is a selection of images I am currently working with.
Patterns collected by Alfred Cort Haddon in the Torres Strait, Cambridge University Archives
Richard Owen, Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus (London: Richard Taylor, 1832), plate I.
Lewis Foreman Day, design for textile, V&A Museum
Wallpaper design by Candace Wheeler, 1881, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lewis Foreman Day, wallpaper samples, V&A Museum
Pattern sketch by Walter Crane, Beinecke Library
Cover of The Goldfish: Being the Confessions of a Successful Man, 1914
Drawing of objects collected by Alfred Cort Haddon in the Torres Straits, Cambridge University Archives
Design from a pattern book by Sarah Bland, V&A Museum
William Morris, Trellis wallpaper, 1860s, V&A Museum
Henry Balfour, drawing of spears from the Solomon Islands, Pitt-Rivers Museum
Design for Wallpaper by Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1881
Evolution in art, according to Henry Balfour, from The Evolution of Decorative Art (New York: Macmillan & Co., 1893).
A diagram of pattern evolution organized by General Pitt-Rivers, Nature 22 (September 30, 1880): 511–14.
Radiographs of shells, D’arcy Wentworth Thompson papers, St. Andrews University Library
Evolution in art, according to Henry Balfour, from The Evolution of Decorative Art (New York: Macmillan & Co., 1893).
Design for Wallpaper by Samuel Colman, 1881
Lewis Foreman Day, The Anatomy of Pattern, 1887
