Josephine F. Dickinson.
Artist, Writer and Anthropologist.
Independent Curator and Researcher.
Based in Brighton, UK.

My creative endeavours inform and compliment my work in the social sciences and vice versa. Overall, I would say that my artwork, research and writing are all lovingly curiosity-driven, with the aim to explore the human condition (and existence itself) with empathy and humour, as well as to thoughtfully unpack emergent and contestable social and cultural phenomena without prejudice. Generally, I pursue truth and knowledge, no matter how disagreeable, unpalatable, or painful, in myself, in others, in society, in life, and I am compelled to express my thoughts, feelings, research findings, experiences, and observations through the mode of communication that I feel fits each concept best; whether that be through traditional art mediums, spoken word formats, facilitating discussions, sound compositions, different forms of writing practices, or indeed a unique assemblage of all or some of the above.

Catalogued on ArtUK
Member of the Printmakers Council (2016-2019)
Member of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2017-Present)

Art Practice: Printmaking, Artists’ Books, Multiples, Illustration, Photography, Collage, Painting, Installation, Mixed-Media Assemblages, Mail Art, Social Sculpture.

Writing Practice: Poetry, Essays, Speculative Fiction, Nonfiction.

Research Interests:

• Semiotics and Symbolism.
• Sociocultural Authoritarianism.
• Ethics and Effective Altruism.
• Socioeconomics and Class.
• Women’s Liberation.
• Animal Welfare.
• Structural Violence.
• Existential Risk.
• Public Policy-Making.
• Contemporary British Society.
• Structures of Western Democracies.
• Structures of Global Governance.
• Neoliberal / Late-Stage Capitalism.
• Censorship and Propaganda Practices.
• Actor-Network Theory.
• Multispecies Ethnography.
• Epistemology and Phenomenology.
• World and Earth Systems Theory.
• Mental Health and Anti-Psychiatry.
• Altered States of Consciousness.
• Relational Aesthetics.
• Outsider Art and Artists.
• Astronomy and Space.