Educated at the University of Essex and the Courtauld Institute of Art, his research focuses on post-war Surrealism with an expertise in Salvador Dalí’s ‘late’ art and writing. His publications include Dalí, Surrealism, and Cinema (Kamera Books, 2007), Dalí: The Late Work (High Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2010), and Frida and Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting (Art Gallery of Ontario, 2012), as well as catalogue contributions to Dalí exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Tate Modern, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.