History of Art Society: President

I am standing for President of the History of Art Society because I believe our community has the potential to be more visible, connected, and ambitious.

I hope to build a society that actively generates opportunities for HoA students to take initiative. We need platforms to showcase ideas, experiment, and turn concepts into real projects. Through student-led exhibitions and internal project competitions, I want to empower members to try their ideas and see their work come to life. By making our projects public and dynamic, we can strengthen the presence of our HoA department within UCL and beyond.

I also aim to build a supportive network of HoA students and young creatives across disciplines, from fine art to history, architecture, and media, as well as other societies within and beyond UCL. Expanding our community expands what we can achieve together. I hope to offer deeper insights into diverse areas surrounding art, be it museum practices or underrepresented art movements, exploring topics beyond our course. Alongside this, I want to create shared artistic experiences, such as exhibition visits, film screenings, and symposiums, where we learn collectively beyond lectures.

Proactive and experienced in leadership in leading the visual art club, I value collaboration, feedback from all years, and open dialogue. With a cross-cultural perspective and growth mindset, I seek to build an inclusive and forward-thinking HoA society that equips and empowers us. Thank you:)

Studying the Archaeology of Egypt and Sudan has deepened my passion for art, its history and role in shaping human thought and identity

I stand to remember, to honour, to sustain 
Because images shape memory
Because beauty commands attention
Because art refuses to sit still, it is always in motion, inspiring, making and unsettling worlds
Because of the hands that moulded clay, carved stone, wove fibre and shaped the world we walk through

To stand is to take a position
To stand is to curate with care
To stand is to become a bridge between memory and tomorrow
To stand is to ask not only what we see but who is seeing and who has been left out of the frame

As President of the History of Art Society, I stand at the intersection of past and present, scholarship and imagination, canvas and community

I stand to question, to reframe, to expand
Because the gallery is also a site of power
Because the walls of museums whisper stories that demand to be heard differently
Because history has too often been framed from a single vantage point and there are other views waiting to be seen
Because art can heal

And because the next generation of art historians can inherit the past and transform the future thoughtfully, critically, courageously

Standing not just to represent a society
Standing to transform it
Stating to reenergise it
This is why I stand