Ruby Gilding

Ruby Gilding is an arts enthusiast with special interests in threatened culture, photography, and digital humanities. After graduating from the University of Oxford with a first class BA degree in English, she joined contemporary arts organisations based in South East Asia and the Middle East – notably working on the Iraq Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale. In 2020 she graduated from the Courtauld Institute of Art’s MA History of Art where she specialised in global, documentary photography under Prof Julian Stallabrass. She received a High Distinction for her dissertation on thermal images of the refugee crisis and the biopolitics of Giorgio Agamben. Ruby has written for a number of cultural organisations including The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities, Pitt Rivers Museum and Ed Fringe Review.