Miss Daphne Ang
Key information
- Qualifications
- BA (Open University), MA (SOAS)
- Email address
- dm36@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- The Production and Patronage of Portraiture in Colonial Singapore
- Internal Supervisors
- Professor Elizabeth Moore & Dr Charles Gore
Biography
Daphne Ang is presently a PhD candidate in the department of History of Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She is also a research fellow at the National University of Singapore Museum.
Her doctoral research investigates the production of portraiture under the patronage of the Straits Chinese in Colonial Singapore. She has presented at international conferences such as the 26th Baba Nyonya Convention (2013) in Kuala Lumpur, and the Postgraduate Symposium in History of Art and Visual Culture at the University College London (2012).
She also conducts a Master’s course in Arts of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asia at SOAS, and is the author of “The Portrait Project”, an online project established to locate and archive photographs from the personal family albums of Singaporeans.
Research interests
History of Art, 19th Century Photography, History of Photography & Portraiture, Art and Archaeology of Southeast Asia, Modern & Contemporary Art of South & Southeast Asia, Curating.