Dr Natasha Eaton: On Colour, Art and Empire

With an introduction by Tiffany Boyle, join scholar Dr Natasha Eaton for an evening lecture on her research into colour theory as it relates to Williams’ exhibition.

Dr Eaton is Reader in the History of Art at UCL. Her research focuses primarily on British and Indian art, notions of cross cultural exchange and material culture. Currently she is at work on several projects – art and indenture in the Indian Ocean; collecting and empire; the agency of light in empire. She has published two monographs – Mimesis across Empires: Artworks and Networks in India, 1765-1860 (Duke University Press, 2013) and Colour, Art and Empire: Visual Culture and the Nomadism of Representation (I.B. Tauris, 2013).