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
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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