About
Rosie Ibbotson is a Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Canterbury's Faculty of Arts, where she has been appointed since February 2013. She holds a doctorate on the transnational Arts and Crafts Movement and completed postdoctoral research at the Yale Center for British Art. Her current affiliations include leadership in the Australian Research Council grant 'Extinction imaginaries: Mapping affective visual cultures in Australasia' (2023-2026).
Her research explores the intersections of visual culture and environmental transformation, with foci including:
- 19th-century colonial aesthetics and the Anthropocene
- Material ecologies of extinction and de-extinction
- Arts and Crafts Movement historiography
- Decolonial approaches to museum practices
- Environmental violence in visual representation
Her scholarly publications consistently engage with colonial visual epistemologies, environmental humanities, and material culture studies, with recent work examining archival representations of extinction, settler terraforming, and the ecopolitics of scale across 73+ outputs.
She actively supervises graduate researchers, including current projects on:
- Museum activism and unsanctioned interventions
- Children in rural British landscape painting
- Arts and Crafts dress reform movements
- Christian design doctrines
- Albatroess in cultural practice
