James Church is a fourth year PhD student at Kingston University, London. His thesis examines the experience of five British and Irish artists who exhibited at the Annual Exhibitions of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, and their engagement with the art world of the United States of America, between 1910 and 1931. Previously, he worked as an architect, having studied architecture at the Bartlett School, UCL, and also studied towards a part-time MA in the History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London, graduating in 2011.