Doris Rohr
Doris Rohr studies for PhD in drawing and aesthetics with LICA, Lancaster
University.
Following John Ruskin’s proposed method of closely observing detail from
nature, Rohr’s working practice aims to draw attention to ecological responsibility.
This becomes a proposition for a caretaking and respectful relationship with
nature.
Drawing is presented as a visual journal, exploring continuous narrative on paper.
Research methods include walking and collecting (such as discarded objects,
plastic waste and other debris washed up at the beach). These act as a form of
contemporary still life.
The drawings aim to reveal a spiritual dimension of landscape through
descriptions of journeys and encounters, actual and imagined, with inanimate and
animate beings, thereby forming a visual stream of consciousness. The enigmatic
quality of weather encompassing science and prophecy is traced through the
annotation of cloud formations, bearing witness to Ruskin’s legacy as artist and
writer for our times.
Contact: http://www.axisweb.org
University.
Following John Ruskin’s proposed method of closely observing detail from
nature, Rohr’s working practice aims to draw attention to ecological responsibility.
This becomes a proposition for a caretaking and respectful relationship with
nature.
Drawing is presented as a visual journal, exploring continuous narrative on paper.
Research methods include walking and collecting (such as discarded objects,
plastic waste and other debris washed up at the beach). These act as a form of
contemporary still life.
The drawings aim to reveal a spiritual dimension of landscape through
descriptions of journeys and encounters, actual and imagined, with inanimate and
animate beings, thereby forming a visual stream of consciousness. The enigmatic
quality of weather encompassing science and prophecy is traced through the
annotation of cloud formations, bearing witness to Ruskin’s legacy as artist and
writer for our times.
Contact: http://www.axisweb.org