Camilla Martin - Postgraduate Research Student

Thesis title: Seeing Like a Horsewoman: Lady Anne Blunt and the Arabian Horse in Nineteenth-Century Art

Biography

Background

Camilla Martin is a PhD researcher in History of Art at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. She is also Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico–Los Alamos, where she teaches studio art and art history.

Her academic and creative practice brings together a longstanding engagement with horses, visual art, and art history. She holds an MA in Art History and an MA in Fine Art in Drawing and Painting from the Academy of Art University. Her MA Art History thesis, Rewriting the Gaze: Women, Orientalism, and the Arabian Horse in Nineteenth-Century Art, examined the representation of Arabian horses in the work of women artists and travellers, including Rosa Bonheur, Lady Anne Blunt, and Lady Butler, in relation to nineteenth-century Orientalism and gendered practices of looking.

Her doctoral research develops these interests through a study of Lady Anne Blunt, examining the intersections of gender, travel, visual culture, human-animal relationships, and nineteenth-century Orientalism. More broadly, her research interests include nineteenth-century art, women artists and travellers, animal studies, equine visual culture, Orientalism, and the relationship between artistic practice and ways of seeing.

Research summary

  • Nineteenth-century art and visual culture
  • Orientalism and postcolonial studies
  • Women artists and travellers
  • Gender and visual culture
  • Animal studies and animal history
  • Equine art and visual culture
  • Human-animal relationships
  • Travel, mobility, and embodied experience
  • Colonialism and cross-cultural encounters
  • Visual ethics and practices of looking
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