Dr Gursimran Oberoi


About

News

In the media

2020
Watts At Home Smartify Tour
Contributor
Watts Gallery
2020
Introducing Gursimran Oberoi, new Chair of the Association for Art History’s Doctoral and Early Career Research (DECR) committee
Association For Art History
2020
Gendered Readings of the Earliest Women's Suffrage Iconoclasm by Gursimran Oberoi
Gender and Sexuality Research Group at the Courtauld Institute of Art
2023
Watts Gallery Trust appoints new Trustees
Watts Gallery - Artists' Village

Research

Research interests

Research projects

Teaching

Publications

Forthcoming Oberoi, G. (2024) Global Watts: Symbolism, Fame and Activism (1880-Present Day).

Oberoi, G. (2023) 'The Collective Self-Portrait: Drawing Elizabeth Siddal in the New Woman Sisterhood’, in The Rossettis, ed. Carol Jacobi, London: Tate. 

Oberoi, G. (2021) 'Victorian Paintings Under Attack: The Earliest Act of Suffrage Iconoclasm (1913)', in Women’s Suffrage in Word, Image, Music and Drama: The Making of a Movement, ed. Christopher Wiley and Lucy Ella Rose, London: Routledge.

Oberoi, G. ‘Women’s Suffrage Attacks Against Art: Recontextualised’, Courtauld’s Gender and Sexuality Group, Online.

Oberoi, G. ‘Protesting Watts: The Origin of Suffrage Iconoclasm’, Watts Gallery Blog, 3rdApr, Online.

Oberoi, G. ‘G. F. Watts’s Artistic Networks’, BAVS Newsletter, Issue 18.3, pp. 16-7.

Selected Invited Lectures and Conferences

Invited Lecture: 'Global Watts: How International Communities Reshape the Legacy of "England's Michelangelo"', President's Panel, BAVS Annual Conference, 3 Sep 2022.

Invited Lecture: 'Global Watts: The Making and Remaking of England's Michelangelo', Modern Pre-Raphaelites Exhibition Opening, Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum, 9 Sep 2022.

Invited Lecture: 'A Victorian Michelangelo: The Global Legacy of G.F. Watts's Symbolism', Art History Festival, The National Gallery and AAH, 25 Sep 2021.

Invited Lecture: 'William Morris's "Strawberry Theif", Digitial Workshop Objects in Focus: Decolonising Victorian Art and Design?, Race, Empire and the Pre-Raphaelites: Decolonising Victorian Art and Design through Museum Collections and Practice, 28 Jan 2021.

Conference Co-Organiser: DECR's New Voices, Sculpture & Literature, in partnership with Henry Moore Institute and University of Leeds, Association for Art History, 20-21st October.

Conference Co-Organiser: DECR's Summer Symposium, Global Britain: Decolonising Art's Histories, Association for Art History, 21st Jun, 9th Sept and 22nd Sept.

Conference Co-Organiser: DECR's Global New Voices, Association for Art History, 19th-20th Nov 2020.

Invited Roundtable Speaker: ‘William Morris’s “Strawberry Thief”’, (Digital Workshop) Objects in Focus: Decolonising Victorian Art and Design?, Race, Empire and the Pre-Raphaelites: Decolonising Victorian Art and Design through Museum Collections and Practice28th Jan 2021.

Invited speaker: ‘Global Watts: When Victorian Painting and Sculpture Meet International Communities’, New Directions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art (NDENCA), Digital Series, 25th Jan 2021.

Conference paper: ‘Recovering The Archive: G. F. Watts and The Victorians’ Futurity At Manchester Art Gallery, 1913’,  Victorian Renewals, British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS), University of Dundee, 28th-30th Aug 2019.

Conference paper: ‘Photography, Surveillance and Press: G. F. Watts and The Victorians’ Futurity At Manchester City Art Gallery, 1913’, Photography and Printed Matter – The Association for Art History’s Summer Symposium, University of St Andrews, 3rd-4th Jun 2019.

Invited speaker: ‘She Shall Be Called Woman: The Legacy and Controversy Surrounding G. F. Watts’s Art and the Women’s Suffrage Campaign’, Gender, Radicalism and Reform, Royal Holloway, University of London, 15th May 2019.

Roundtable: Archives, Archaeology, History and Collections, The Paul Mellon Centre Doctoral Researchers Network Summer Symposium 2019, Paul Mellon Centre, 10th May 2019.

Chair: ECR Keynote: Helen Goodman (Bath Spa) ‘Radicalism, Reform, and Victorian Insanity: A Medical Humanities Approach’, Radicalism and Reform in the Long Nineteenth-Century: The London Victorian Studies Colloquium, Royal Holloway, University of London, 27th Apr 2019.

Conference paper:‘She Shall Be Called Woman: The Legacy and Controversy Surrounding G. F. Watts’s Art and the Women’s Suffrage Campaign’, Victorian Futures, Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, 8th-10th Nov 2018.

Conference paper: ‘She Shall Be Called Woman: Allegory and Feminism in G. F. Watts’s Art’Centennial Reflections on Women’s Suffrage and the Arts: Local, National, Transnational, International Conference, University of Surrey, 29th-30th Jun 2018.