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Thesis Title:ÌýExceeding Absence: Bermudian Ecological Hauntology and Contemporary Visual Culture as Decolonial Possibility

Supervisors:ÌýProfessor Dorothy Price, Dr Lucy Bradnock, Dr Marsha Pearce (External Supervisor, British Academy Global Professor at The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge)

Funded by:ÌýCHASE AHRC Doctoral Studentship

Working closely with contemporary Bermudian artists, my research explores how contemporary Bermudian artists are developing a decolonial visual language to address the hauntology of local ecological sites that hold contested and silenced Bermudian histories. By doing so, they challenge and negate the absence suggested by colonial narratives surrounding Bermudian, and broader Caribbean, visual culture and history. Through contemporary art, and site-specific examples, Bermuda’s environments can be reinterpreted as frontiers for historical recovery and the envisioning of decolonial futures.