Dr Lola Frost is an artist and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London.

She was the Leverhulme artist-in-residence in War Studies KCL from 2014 to 2015, and a convenor for an Art and War MA Module in War Studies KCL 2017/18. Before moving to the UK in 2002, she was a senior lecturer in art history and art theory in the Art Department, Technikon Natal, Durban, South Africa. Awarded a joint Theory/Practice PhD from the Visual Art Department at Goldsmiths College in 2007 she continued to exhibit her work in London in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018. As a Visiting Fellow at The Centre for Law, Art and Humanities at ANU in Canberra and at the Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW Canberra in 2019 she expanded her ongoing interdisciplinary research in War Studies KCL on the overlaps and tensions between art practice, international relations and political theory.

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Research Interests

• Art and the Ethics of Mutual Recognition
• Art and Rights
• Art and Diplomacy
• Art and Misogyny
• Art and Power