色色影院

Degrees &听 Honours: 听听 听

MA Hons (University of Aberdeen), MA (King鈥檚 College London), PhD (King鈥檚 College London)

Awards & Prizes (selected):听听 听

• LASA Book Prize, Best Book (Southern Cone Section) 2020
• Henry Moore Foundation Research Award
• British Academy Conference Award
• Leverhulme Trust and Isaac Newton Trust Early Career Fellowship
• El Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes de Chile (travel award)
• Institute of Fine Art, University of New York (travel award)
• Arts and Humanities Research Council (doctoral award)

Research Interests:听听 听

My main interest is Latin American visual art. I am particularly interested in Chilean and Colombian art. My current focus is the work of participatory needlework collectives (tejedoras) in Colombia, Mexico and Chile, which use quilts, appliqu茅s and embroideries for memorialising or social justice purposes, or for reconciliation following conflict. I am also interested in the link between the material visual culture of textiles and the way images of textiles are currently used on the internet to form diasporas of solidarity.

My previous research was on the embroideries (arpilleras), papier-m芒ch茅 sculptures and oil paintings created by the Chilean artist Violeta Parra (1917 鈥� 1967) and this has led to two books, the edited volume (Tamesis, 2017) and the monograph (Palgrave, 2020).

I am also interested in the Latin American feminist wave; the iconography of human rights in Latin America; cultural theory; the decolonisation of art history; the Latin American 鈥楤oom鈥� of the 1960s, structural biases in art history, the translation of theatre and expanding the surrealist canon.

I welcome enquiries from students with interests in these areas. 听

Biography:听听 听

I am a Research Fellow in Latin American Art at 色色影院. My degree was awarded by the University of Aberdeen and my PhD was awarded by King's College London. I have been an Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent and a sessional lecturer at King's College London. I am the Co-chair of the Latin American Studies Association Visual Culture Section (2022-2024) and on the executive committee of Women in Spanish and Portuguese Studies (2019-2023). I am a graduate tutor at 色色影院.

Publications:听听 听

Books

• Dillon, Lorna. 2020. Violeta Parra鈥檚 Art: Painted Songs. Cham: Palgrave Pivot. 听听 听
• Dillon, Lorna, ed. 2017. Violeta Parra: Life and Work. Woodbridge: Tamesis.

Articles, reviews and book chapters

• Dillon, Lorna. (translator). 2023. 鈥淐laiming the Right to Memory, Stitch by Stitch. The experience of the Costurero Tejedoras por la Memoria de Sons贸n (the Sons贸n Memory Sewing Group)鈥� The Textile Reader (London: Bloomsbury).鈥�鈥�听听
• Dillon, Lorna. 2022. 鈥淩epairing the Fabric of Society through Needlework鈥� Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture. 4, 4: 74-80.听鈥�听
• Dillon, Lorna. 2022. 鈥淓mbroidery in Abya Yala鈥� Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture. 4, 4: 119-128.听鈥�听
• Dillon, Lorna, Lucy Phelps and Jennifer Wood (translators) 2022. 鈥淭he Catch Up鈥� In Poor Connection / Conexi贸n Inestable. Edited by Catherine Boyle, Jack Tarlton, Lucila Cordone, Luis A. Medina Cordova, Mar铆a Laura Ramos and Nicol谩s Lisoni. 201-211.鈥�听
• Dillon, Lorna. 2021. "The Aesthetics of Global Protest;听Global Activism and Art and Conflict in the 21st Century" Visual Studies 37.听
• Dillon, Lorna. 2018. 鈥淩epositioning the Popular: The Hybrid Aesthetics of Violeta Parra鈥檚 Paintings Machit煤n, Las tres Pascualas and Casamiento de negros.鈥� Studies in Latin American Popular Culture No 36: 145-160.
• Dillon, Lorna. 2016. 鈥淩eligion and the Angel's Wake Tradition in Violeta Parra's Art and Lyrics.鈥� Taller de Letras 59: 91-109.
• Dillon, Lorna. 2015. 鈥淩eview of Arpillera sobre Chile: cine, teatro y literatura antes y despu茅s de 1973.鈥� Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 92, no. 6: 728-729.
• Dillon, Lorna. "Violeta Parra". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 March 2015.
• Dillon, Lorna. 2011. 鈥淭he Representation of History and Politics in Violeta Parra鈥檚 Visual Art.鈥� In Seeing in Spanish: from Don Quixote to Daddy Yankee - 22 Essays on Hispanic Visual Cultures, edited by Ryan Prout, 252-267. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Dillon, Lorna. 2009. 鈥淒efiant Art: The Feminist Dialectic of Violeta Parra鈥檚 Arpilleras.鈥� In Identity, Nation, Discourse: Latin American Women Writers and Artists, edited by Claire Taylor, 53-56. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Dillon, Lorna. 2007. 鈥淭ranslating Poetics: Approaches to the Translation of a Play in the Grotesco Criollo Tradition.鈥� In Exploraci贸n y proceso: estudiando la cultura hisp谩nica, edited by Catherine Boyle, 185-197. Valencia: King鈥檚 College London and Biblioteca de Valencia.

Teaching and Service:

I teach in the History of Art Department and the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. I supervise and examine undergraduate students, postgraduate MPhil and PhD students working in the areas of Latin American visual culture, textile art or Surrealism.

I am the co-chair of the Latin American Studies Association Visual Culture Section (2022-2024) and a member of the executive committee of Women in Spanish and Portuguese Studies (WISPS). I am a tutor at 色色影院 and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 听

Research Awards:

My research has been supported by organisations such as the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, The Henry Moore Foundation, the Isaac Newton Trust and the Institute of Fine Art at the University of New York.

I am a Research Fellow at 色色影院 and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Exhibitions:

(co-curated with Naomi Polonsky, February to August 2022), The Women's Art Collection, 色色影院.

A virtual display of the exhibition can be seen here:

The introductory chapters to my books and full details of all my publications can be found on my .

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