Dr Charles Gore

Key information

Roles
Research Associate Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies Member
Qualifications
MA, PHD (London), PGCE
Building
Brunei Gallery
Office
B402
Email address
cg2@soas.ac.uk
Telephone number
020 7898 4443
Support hours
By email appointment

Biography

Dr Charles Gore received advanced degrees from SOAS under the supervision of Professor John Picton. He has carried out extensive research in southern Nigeria for 20 years at Benin City in Edo state working with practitioners of the local indigenous religion and with brasscasters; and also carried out research in Anambra and Ondo states; and in the Niger delta. He was the consultant for Artist Unknown (1995) a BBC film made about the arts of Benin City. Along with doing research as an art historian and anthropologist, he works as an artist (figurative, expressionist) in various media (oil, watercolour, pastel, mixed media, etching, monotypes, photography).

Research interests

Benin studies and West Africa; African art; African visual cultures, including the mass media such as African photography, film, video and the internet; performance, religion and ritual in contemporary African societies; approaches to "popular culture" and its relations to regional/global knowledges; linkages between Africa and its diasporic arts; indigenous approaches to health and healing.

PhD Supervision

Name Title
Miss Daphne Ang The Production and Patronage of Portraiture in Colonial Singapore
Helena Cantone Decolonising the Visual Archive of Salvatore Fiume (1915-1997): Italian Encounters with Postcolonial Africa
Mr Atsushi Ikeda Portraying the Guru: Art and Identity in Sikhism
Mr David Malik Urban Art Forms in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and their Roles in the Making of Diasporic Identities in Communities in London, United Kingdom

Publications

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