Gallery

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.

A diagram of pattern evolution organized by General Pitt-Rivers, Nature 22 (September 30, 1880): 511–14.

Lewis Foreman Day, design for textile, V&A Museum

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

Design for Wallpaper by Samuel Colman, 1881

Henry Balfour, drawing of spears from the Solomon Islands, Pitt-Rivers Museum

Evolution in art, according to Henry Balfour, from The Evolution of Decorative Art (New York: Macmillan & Co., 1893).

Wallpaper design by Candace Wheeler, 1881, Metropolitan Museum of Art

William Morris, Trellis wallpaper, 1860s, V&A Museum

Cover of The Goldfish: Being the Confessions of a Successful Man, 1914

Lewis Foreman Day, wallpaper samples, V&A Museum

Radiographs of shells, D’arcy Wentworth Thompson papers, St. Andrews University Library

Lewis Foreman Day, The Anatomy of Pattern, 1887

Design for Wallpaper by Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1881

Richard Owen, Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus (London: Richard Taylor, 1832), plate I.

Evolution in art, according to Henry Balfour, from The Evolution of Decorative Art (New York: Macmillan & Co., 1893).

Patterns collected by Alfred Cort Haddon in the Torres Strait, Cambridge University Archives

Pattern sketch by Walter Crane, Beinecke Library