Jorella Andrews

Jorella Andrews is currently Head of Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmith’s University. Her research interests are focused on the relations between philosophical inquiry, perception and art practice, with a particular emphasis on phenomenology and the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. (These ideas are discussed in her book entitled Showing Off: A Philosophy of Image.) Jorella has worked on twentieth-century and contemporary visual cultures, also seventeenth-century Dutch art history and visual cultures. She has also been writing on black British art practices in relation to questions of communication and communicative ethics.