Ruby Gilding

Ruby Gilding is an art historian with interests in threatened culture, photography and digital humanities. After graduating from the University of Oxford, she joined contemporary arts organisations based in Southeast Asia and the Middle East—most notably working on the Iraq Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. In 2020 she graduated from the Courtauld Institute of Art’s MA History of Art, where she specialised in global documentary photography, gaining a Distinction for her dissertation on thermal images of the refugee crisis and the biopolitics of Giorgio Agamben. Gilding has written for a number of cultural organisations, including the Wellcome Collection, The Photographers’ Gallery and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, and currently works for the Natural History Museum in London.