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Jade de Montserrat is a Senior Tutor at Oxford University's Ruskin School of Art and Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins (UAL), with primary institutional affiliation at University College London's Slade School of Fine Art. Their practice-led research intersects Black Diasporic Cultural discourse with decolonial strategies through visual arts.
Research focuses on challenging institutional care structures through the lens of gender, race, class and colonialism, particularly within rural communities. Their work explores bodily vulnerability, ecological concerns, historical preservation, and sensory language while generating original contributions to decolonial knowledge production.
Recent publications demonstrate sustained engagement with climate justice, ritual theory, and material culture across visual, textual, and performative formats. Key thematic threads include Black feminist epistemologies, postcolonial pedagogy, and critical race aesthetics in contemporary art practice.
- Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship recipient supporting PhD research on Black Atlantic perspectives in Northern Britain
Active in alternative pedagogical spaces including Wysing Arts Centre's Syllabus Programme, The Other MA, and Conditions studio programme. Their institutional activism emphasizes anti-racist, neurodiverse approaches to art education while challenging art-historical canons through dialogical learning models and transgenerational memory practices.
