Sculpting Her World: The Art of Dora Gordine

About the Speakers

Erika Tan

Born and educated in Singapore, Erika Tan moved to the UK to study anthropology, then filmmaking, and finally fine art. Her research-based practice evolved from an interest in received narratives, contested heritage, subjugated voices and the transnational movements of ideas, people and things; it responds to the unravelling of facts & fictions. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Jakarta Biennale and the Diaspora Pavilion in Venice, as well as institutions like National Gallery Singapore, Tate, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, ZKM – Centre for Art and Media, and 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. She is also Reader in Contemporary Art Practice and MAFA Course Leader in Central Saint Martins.

Dr. Fiona Fisher

Dr. Fiona Fisher is a member of the Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston University where she is curator of the university’s Dorich House Museum, the 1930s former studio home of the artist Dora Gordine and her husband Richard Hare. Her research interests include modern public house design in England, British domestic interiors in relation to suburban modernity, and the interior design of the English care home. Fiona’s publications include The Picker House & Collection: A Late 1960s Home for Art & Design (2013), Designing the British Post-War Home: Kenneth Wood, 1948–1968 (2015) and British Design: Tradition & Modernity After 1948 (2015). More recently, she contributed to The Senses in Interior Design: Sensorial Expression & Experiences (2024) and is a co-editor of Exhibition as Interior, Interior as Exhibition: Spaces of Display Within & Beyond the Museum & Gallery (2025). Fiona is currently collaborating with Dr Rebecca Preston on a study of the history of London’s roof gardens.