Photo: Bora Şekerci Evie Evans
Currently Evie Evans is doing a PhD research in the UK.
Between 2019 and 2026 she lived in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. From the UK, Evie Evans came to the Netherlands to study Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). After graduating with her BA in 2019, she continued on at the UvA, completing her MA in Museum Studies in 2021. Between 2019 and 2026 she is part of the Research & Production Team.
Her BA dissertation Cultivating Colonialism: The musealisation of natural objects in the Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2021), analyses botanical gardens from a museological perspective, as subject to similar processes of collection and exhibition, and decolonial critique, as museums. Furthermore it addressed the competing concepts of ‘Britishness’ and ‘Englishness’ for non-white citizens in the United Kingdom, and the commemoration of black British history. Therefore, her area of interest is the conjunction of history, heritage and identity, particularly for postcolonial narratives, and the representation of colonial history in museums in Britain and the Netherlands. The thesis was inspired by the Framer Framed exhibition On the Nature of Botanical Gardens (2020) that draws a connection between a critical analysis of museums and the study of botanical gardens.
She also contributed to Framer Framed’s anthology Notes to Other Futures (2026), a publication commemorating the organization’s 15th anniversary.
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