Ivonne Charlotte Marais

With postgraduate degrees in both Anthropology and Art History Ivonne Charlotte has multiple expertise and research interests including; heritage consulting, curation, African art, museum ethnography, and archival studies and practice. She has expanding this work into the area of public history and social commentary through her Substack 'SkryfVars' and poetry. Ivonne is currently interested in developing heritage and archival policies for government and private institutions focusing on social justice and decolonisation.

Links

Substack https://skryfvars.substack.com

University of Brighton https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/ivonne-charlotte-marais/

Education

• Techne AHRC Doctoral Partnership University of Brighton 2022 – present

• MPhil Visual, Material, and Museum Ethnography University of Oxford 2017 - 2019

• MA Art History & Archaeology SOAS, University of London 2016 - 2017

• Honours & BA Art History University of the Witwatersrand 2013 - 2015

• Curatorial interventions:

  • Origins Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa 2013 – 2015

  • William Goodenough House, London, United Kingdom 2017

  • Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom 2018 - 2019

  • Horniman Museum & Gardens, London, United Kingdom 2022 – present

• Diversity Ambassador Certification from Powered by Diversity 2024