Dr Sarah Tiffin

Sarah Tiffin’s research focusses on depictions and descriptions of Southeast Asia in British art and creative literature of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Formerly a Curator of Asian Art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Sarah is the author of Southeast Asia in Ruins: Art and Empire in the Early 19th Century (2016) which explores how British picturesque imagery of ruined candi, pagodas and wats contributed to the networks of knowledge critical to imperial enterprise. She continues to publish on British ideas about ruins and ruination, and is also currently working on a study of the upas or poison tree of Java and its appearance in British art and literature over the long 19th century.

Email: sarahtiffin@bigpond.com