Lily Owens

Editor-in-Chief.

Lily Owens is a recent History of Art graduate and Levy-Plumb Scholar from the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on how artists engage in political critique through aesthetic strategies. She is broadly interested in the philosophy of art and its relationship to political history. She has published on taxonomy, natural history and colonial visual cultures in the 18th Century British West Indies and recently completed her dissertation on the use of ‘excess’ as a feminist strategy within the Pattern & Decoration movement (1972-1985). She recently served as the co-president of Christ’s College Art Collective and now spends time volunteering as a research assistant and learning facilitator in London’s museums. She has founded Intertexture to bring together thinkers and writers at the intersection of politics and aesthetics.