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Aimee Dawson is a British writer, editor and speaker on the art world. Her areas of specialty include art in the digital sphere; art and social media; and Modern and contemporary art in the Middle East. She is the author of the monthly column Insta’ gratification, which looks at how the art world and social media collide in often innovative—but also problematic—ways, and also a Guest Lecturer at SOAS, University of London.
Aimee previously worked at the leading art publication The Art Newspaper in London for more than seven years. Her roles have included Live Editor, where she was responsible for commissioning and editing videos, audio and digital content and curating events; and Acting Digital Editor, where she led a team to run The Art Newspaper’s busy website. All of her articles can be found here.
Aimee was also a co-producer of the award-winning The Week in Art, a weekly podcast that picks apart international art world news and provides expert industry insights, and also the podcast A brush with… which offers in-depth interviews with leading artists.
A natural speaker, Aimee has been invited to lead panel discussions for international fairs, art organisations and galleries such as The Arts Club, Abu Dhabi Art fair and Gazelli Art House, as well as given expert analysis on a range of pressing art world topics for platforms including Aesthetica, The Art Gorgeous and TRT World news service. She has also hosted several segments for The Week in Art podcast, including interviews with the Guerrilla Girls and Shirin Neshat.
Having studied a BA in Arabic and Middle East Studies at the University of Exeter and holding an MA in Contemporary Art and Art Theory of Africa and Asia from SOAS, Aimee’s first passion is art from the Middle East and North Africa. She spent time living in Egypt and Morocco and she continues to regularly travel to the region. Aimee has written for a number of publications within or related to the Middle East including Ibraaz, Mada Masr, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Tribe, Reorient, FOLIO and MOJEH magazine as well as contributing to London’s major festivals of Arab culture: Arab Women Artists Now (AWAN), Nour Festival of Arts, and Shubbak.
Aimee spent several years working in publishing and was the managing editor for Ibraaz’s Visual Culture in the Middle East book series (Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practices in North Africa and the Middle East, IB Tauris, 2014; Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East, IB Tauris, 2015; Future Imperfect: Contemporary Art Practices and Cultural Institutions in the Middle East, Sternberg Press, 2016) and also for Hiwa K’s monograph Don’t Shrink Me to the Size of a Bullet (Walther König, 2017). She was a contributing writer to the volume African Artists, an expansive survey of 300 modern and contemporary artists who were born, or who have lived, in Africa (Phaidon, 2022).
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