Freya Gowrley

• Lecturer in History of Art and Liberal Arts, University of Bristol

Freya Gowrley is Senior Lecturer in History of Art and Liberal Arts at the University of Bristol, and writes about the relationship between art and identity from the early modern period to the present day. She received her PhD in History of Art from the University of Edinburgh in 2016. Her work has explored the role of emotions in the decoration of the eighteenth-century home and the importance of collage as an art form that can express our most intimate relationships, worries, and desires. She is the author of Domestic Space in Britain, 1750–1840: Materiality, Sociability, and Emotion (Bloomsbury, 2022) and Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage (Princeton University Press, 2024). She is currently working on a trade book exploring the visual cultures of fatness from the eighteenth century to the present day, titled Unseemly: A Visual History of the Fat Body (forthcoming, 2026).

• 2022–present Lecturer in History of Art and Liberal Arts, University of Bristol

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