Dr Doris Rohr
SENIOR LECTURER IN FINE ART
Fine Art and Design
0151 291 3624
rohrd@hope.ac.uk
Dr Doris Rohr
Job Title: Senior Lecturer Fine Art (0.6)
Department: Creative and Performing Arts
Extension: 0151 291 3624
Email: rohrd@hope.ac.uk
I am a Senior Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University teaching Fine Art and Design students based at Liverpool Hope University's Creative Campus. For my BA I studied Three-Dimensional Design (Glass) at West Surrey College of Art and Design. I hold a Master in Fine Art (Coventry Polytechnic) and a Master in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (Essex University). I completed a PhD 'Drawing on Nature: the legacy of Ruskin's Moral Cosmos' at Lancaster University. My PhD investigates the continued relevance of John Ruskin's thoughts on drawing and the environment. Prior to working at Liverpool Hope University I taught Fine Art (Drawing) at the Belfast School of Art (Ulster University) and Cumbria Institute of the Arts (now Cumbria University.) I worked at Norwich School of Art and Design as Lecturer in Theoretical Studies.
My practice involves drawing, writing and the spaces in between; it is primarily paper-based, and frequently involves outdoor research into landscape. Fieldwork consists of walking, haptic interaction with site and notebook activities of plein air drawing and writing, underpinned by phenomenological encounter. Observational methods of drawing nature, following Ruskin's method underpin my studio practice. Outreach activities involving drawing with members of the general public form an important aspect to my understanding of the value of drawing, creativity and art. The interconnections of the verbal and the visual as practices, processes reveal how materiality is embodied in drawing. I believe that practitioners in the arts can develop their own criticaI contexts and therefore am a committed editorial board member of the Intellect journal Drawing Research Theory and Practice.
Subsequent to conference presentation at the American Association of Geography Denver March 2023 I am currently writing an essay for the Special Issue 'Drawing as Critical Geographical Method' Cultural Geographies (Sage) on how the drawing process materialises absence. Recent projects and publications are exhibition review The Conversation 'Another View: Landscapes by Women Artists' (Lady Lever Gallery Port Sunlight, 2004), book chapter ‘Dust’ (2023) Pattern and Chaos: Making and Meaning (edited by Sarah Horton & Victoria Mitchell); Intellect. Exhibition catalogue essay ‘Drawing Deeply’ for Geddis & Kidney Mergeemerge Balinglen Foundation and Mermaid Arts Centre (2022). I co-edited ‘Drawingability’ (Editorial) Drawing Research Theory and Practice Vol 6.1 with Claire Penketh (2021). Other recent publications are a joint project report with Niamh Clark (2020) for the collaborative project: 'From Cradle to Parlour', Drawing Research Theory and Practice Vol 5.1, a book chapter ‘Art and Science in the Age of the Anthropocene’ for Robins [ed] From dream to dream: where art meets science, Interface, and ‘Drawing in and out of Place' in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, Vol 30:1 2018/19. I co-edited the special issue ‘Drawing on Text’ with Charlie Gere for Drawing Research Theory and Practice Vol 3.1.
Exhibitions: I am a menber of the collective The Drawing Journal . Recent exhibitions are 'Quiet Wanders Laughing', Hyde Bridge Gallery, Yeats Society Sligo (August 2023) and ‘Image of Thought’ Culturlann Madam O Fiaich (2020/1). I contributed sketchbooks to Drawing Conversations 3: ‘Drawing Talking to the Sciences' 2020, The Ruskin, Lancaster University.
- Drawing practice and theory
- Conceptions of nature/ environment
- Identity and sense of place
- Materiality and Processes of making
- Element lead Historical and Contemporary Practices (level C)
- Element lead Drawing and Materiality (level C) lecture programme
- Element lead Special Topic level C (with specialism Art & Environment)
- Level lead Art History (level I)