Personal profile

Biography

Clémentine Debrosse is a PhD student at the Sainsbury Research Unit for the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. At the intersection of art history and museum studies, her research focusses on the exhibition in European institutions of the works of contemporary artists whose practice integrates colonial archival materials. Her research is funded by CHASE, AHRC.

 

Clémentine has gained valuable knowledge and experience in curatorial museum practice both through her internships at international institutions such as the National Museum of Australia and the National Gallery of Australia, as well as through her time at Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain as assistant curator.

She is co-founder of Oceania focused blog and association CASOAR.

 

Key Research Interests

  • Art and anthropology of the Pacific
  • Contemporary arts and museum institutions
  • Archives
  • European museums of ethnography and world cultures
  • Global South

Education/Academic qualification

Bachelor of Arts, Not an Heirloom: A Reappraisal of Identity - Bangarra Dance Theatre, University of East Anglia

Sep 2017Jul 2020

Award Date: 1 Jul 2020

Master of Arts, NIRIN: A Community Nexus - Performing Indigeneity in the 22nd biennale of Sydney , University of East Anglia

Sep 2020Sep 2021

Keywords

  • Art History & World Art Studies
  • Visual arts
  • Anthropology
  • Oceania (South Seas) History
  • Museums (General)
  • Millis Prize

    Debrosse, Clémentine (Recipient), 2020

    Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)