Charlotte Ribeyrol’s innovative focus on chromatic materiality in the field of Victorian art history and literature has shed a crucial light on the artistic impact of this colour revolution which radically unsettled the way certain avant-garde Victorian writers and artists related to chromatic terminology and used traditional, organic pigments. By enabling the Fellow to develop a pioneering methodology articulating the material conditions of artistic creation with the visual perception and social reception of artworks, this project has fostered new transdisciplinary forms of research linking literature, art history and the material sciences.
Throughout her Fellowship, Charlotte Ribeyrol has also been fully engaged in various outreach activities in order to disseminate her results to a wider, non-academic audience. In Novembre 2017, she was, for instance, interviewed to answer the following ‘big’ societal question ‘Do we all see colour in the same way ?’ by the OXPLORE team, a new digital outreach portal sponsored by Oxford University encourages 11 to 18 year-olds to address questions that go beyond what is covered in the classroom.
Moreover, as a direct outcome of her Fellowship, she plans to organise a major exhibition on Victorian colour at the Ashmolean Museum in 2022 which will further strengthen the societal implications of her research on colour.