Tillie Craven

Editor, contributor.

Tillie Craven is a Finalist in History of Art at the University of Cambridge, where she holds a Senior Scholarship. Her research interests in modern art and thought encompass psychoanalytic and feminist theory, the philosophy of art, Surrealism’s entanglement with colonial collecting, and the indexical and erotic lives of objects. Her work is particularly concerned with the politics of aesthetics and the ways in which conceptions of art and beauty have shaped understandings of gender, sexuality, race, and class. She has undertaken archival and object-based research across museum and gallery collections. Recent projects include a three-part series for the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, examining a Kuba Mwaash aMbooy mask through the gendered labour concealed beneath its surface, its fetishisation by the Surrealists, and the museum’s interruption of the ritual decay and eventual disposal for which it was intended. She joins Intertexture as an editor.