EMPIRE LINES uncovers the unexpected, often two-way, flows of empires through art.

Interdisciplinary thinkers use individual artworks as artefacts of imperial exchange, revealing the how and why of the monolith ‘empire’.

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MUSIC: Combinación // The Dubbstyle

PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic

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As part of my work in learning, I lead public tours, talks, and live-recorded in conversation events, with artists, curators, historians, and thinkers:

Featured by national museums and galleries:

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Audio installations in the museum space, and at live events, like safe + sound in London:

To promote the series, I have written for the likes of Museums and Galleries Edinburgh, featured in interviews, and hosted events with Retrospect Journal (08-04-2021):


Extract from Listening to Empire: Making Podcasts with Producer Jelena Sofronijevic (08-04-2021). You can listen to the recording, or read the full interview on Retrospect Journal.

I was also interviewed for the EMPIRE LINES podcast launch for BBC Radio Shropshire.

Mid-morning on BBC Radio Shropshire with Jim Hawkins – 01-10-2020

EMPIRE LINES also features in print:

An artist going places: Alia Farid at Oslo’s Henie Onstad Kunstsenter – Review

Afropean: Johny Pitts on homes, history, and photography

Push and Pull Factors: Exhibitions about Migrations in Marylebone – Reviews

Jelena Sofronijevic revisits Carrie Mae Weems: ‘Reflections for Now’ at the Barbican – Review

Not Only, But Also: Permindar Kaur’s Ambiguous Sculptures at John Hansard Gallery

Turner Prize nominee Jasleen Kaur on abstracting and alternating contexts – Interview

We Are Eagles: Outi Pieski and Maree Clarke at Tate Modern – Review

Soulscapes at Dulwich Picture Gallery: diasporic & emotional connections to landscape – Review

The world in miniature: Maha Ahmed’s delicate flow between cultures – Review

Elbow Room – Burlington Contemporary Editor Recommends EMPIRE LINES

You will follow the Rhein and compose play: Temitayo Ogunbiyi at Museum Tinguely – Review

Small and Mighty: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now at MK Gallery – Review

Modernism meets anti-colonialism at Christie’s Kawkaba – Review

Boundary Encounters: Modern Art Oxford’s Architecture of the Present – Review

WAVE: Currents in Japanese Graphic Arts at Japan House London – Review

Textiles in Cambridge: Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery at Kettle’s Yard – Review

EMPIRE LINES Pod of the Week – Pod Bible Newsletter #174

6 of the best podcasts about art and artists

Leighton House rediscovered: Evelyn De Morgan, Shahrzad Ghaffari & Nour Hage – Review

Colour and Abstraction: Beatriz Milhazes at Margate’s Turner Contemporary – Review

Finding hope within Hurvin Anderson’s barbershops – Review

The best design exhibitions showing now in London – gowithYamo Newsletter

Making Sense: Ai Weiwei at The Design Museum – Review

Visit Japan for free – from London – Reviews

A Triptych of Danish Modernism: Cobra and Degenerate Art in Denmark – Reviews

The revolutionary act of walking in the city – Women’s Journeys in the City and Beyond at the Royal Academy Review

Surrealism meets Design in The Design Museum’s Objects of Desire – Review

Nalini Malani: My Reality is Different – Review

The Singh Twins: Slaves of Fashion at Firstsite, Colchester – Review

The Caribbean Condensed: Life Between Islands at the Tate Britain – Review

Lubaina Himid: A Full House at the Tate – Review

Listening to Empire: Making Podcasts with Jelena Sofronijevic Interview

Poltern Newsletter 001 – Poltern Editor Recommends EMPIRE LINES

E.A. Hornel: From Camera to Canvas – Review