Luke Bennison (He/Him)

Luke Bennison is a Romanichal researcher whose work examines the intersections of visual culture, psychoanalysis, and international law. He studied Art History at the University of Plymouth and holds an MA in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London. He is currently completing a PhD in Art History and Visual Culture, specialising in aesthetic approaches to Romani trauma and their potential for broader processes of (re)politicisation. His cross-departmental doctoral project is supervised by Professor Elena Isayev (Classics, Ancient History, Religion, and Theology) and Dr Andrew Schaap (Humanities and Social Sciences).

Alongside his doctoral research, he has worked as a contributing curator for Tate's Queerate-Tate (2021) and has been an international ethnographic researcher since 2020. In this role, he has investigated and documented the housing crisis in Cornwall, the overlooked aesthetic narratives of The Troubles in Ireland, the psychoanalytic evolution of BDSM clubs in Berlin, as well as various artistic collaboration projects across London and Manchester. He has also trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and the British Psychoanalytical Society, receiving the BPaS and Maudsley Hospital Lectures Award.