Dr Dohmen's study explores the under-researched phenomenon of annual fine art exhibitions during the Raj, a period of strict racial and cultural segregation and firm gender hierarchies. Yet these exhibitions, which flourished across the subcontinent from the 1860s to well into the twentieth century, showcased amateur art by British residents of both sexes alongside academic-style art by Indian artists. Adopting a transcultural perspective, the study examines this unique visual space of gendered and racial encounter in relation to perceived boundaries between amateur and professional practice, British art, Indian agency and Victorian notions of self-improvement and civic identity transposed to the colony.