Dr Alex Burchmore is an art historian, arts writer, and Senior Lecturer in Art History & Curatorial Studies with the Centre for Art History and Art Theory. He specialises in the study of Chinese art, within and beyond China’s borders, with a broader focus on travel and mobility, trade and exchange, and intersections of the personal and material. His first book, New Export China: Translations Across Time and Place in Contemporary Chinese Porcelain Art (University of California Press, 2023), traces the myriad ways in which Chinese artists have used porcelain from the 1990s to the present to shape their visions of personal and cultural identity. More recently, he has also edited and contributed to Material Selves: Object Biographies and Identities in Motion (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), an interdisciplinary collection of essays by scholars in Australia, the UK, and China interrogating methods of object biography through a transcultural lens.