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