Freya Gowrley

Freya Gowrley is a Lecturer in History of Art and Liberal Arts at the University of Bristol, and writes about the relationship between art and identity from the early modern period to the present day. She received her PhD in History of Art from the University of Edinburgh in 2016. Her work has explored the role of emotions in the decoration of the eighteenth-century home, the relationship between art and pornography, and, most recently, the importance of collage as an art form that can express our most intimate relationships, worries, and desires. She is the author of Domestic Space in Britain, 1750–1840: Materiality, Sociability, and Emotion (Bloomsbury, 2022) and Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage, due out September 2024, with Princeton University Press.