Dr Laura Rosser
Senior Lecturer and 3rd Year Lead on BA Fine Art
Laura Rosser is a print-based artist researcher. She joined Falmouth University in 2021 and is a Senior Lecturer and 3rd Year Lead on the BA Fine Art programme. In 2023 she completed a practice-based PhD titled 'The Agency of Error in Post-digital Print', funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 3d3 Studentship. Her work has been exhibited widely at galleries and project spaces including the Royal Academy in London, Kronika Centre for Contemporary Art in Bytom Poland, Sydney Contemporary Art Fair in Australia, Gallery of Contemporary Fine Arts Serbia in Belgrade, and Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art in China.
Laura works across and beyond analogue and low-tech print technologies, artist books, diagramming, textual practices, writing, installation, liveness and events. Her artistic research is concerned with rethinking error through an ongoing investigation into the post-digital condition and ideas around nonhuman agencies – specifically new materialist thought. She draws on expanded understandings of error to reimagine the role of print machines and printed matter through activities of: (mis)printing, voicing, dialoguing, listening, diagramming, copying, instructing, scripting, fictioning, collaborating and performing. Laura uses these tactics to create spaces and events that disrupt rational thought and computational logic; preferring the misadventurous and crooked path.
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Qualifications
Qualifications
| Year | Qualification | Awarding body |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3d3 AHRC funded practice-based PhD 'The Agency of Error in Post-Digital Print' | The University of Plymouth |
| 2017 | Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice (distinction) | The University of Plymouth |
| 2017 | Fellowship of Higher Education Academy (FHEA) | |
| 2015 | MA Contemporary Art Practice | The University of Plymouth |
| 2002 | Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Further and Higher Education) | Wolverhampton University |
| 1998 | BA (Hons) Fine Art | Falmouth University |
Honors and awards
| Year | Description |
|---|---|
| 2017 | 3d3 AHRC funded doctoral studentship, 3d3 Centre for Doctoral Training, The University of Plymouth |
| 2017 | Two honorary mentions at the International Printmaking Triennial, by the Centre for Graphic Art & Visual Researchers Serbia, and Graficki Gallery Belgrade |
| 2016 | RK Burt Exhibition Award – solo show |
| 2016 | Neo Print Prize |
| 2016 | #1 artwork of Salon des Refusés (public vote) |
| 2015 | Arts Club Charitable Trust Award for outstanding work |
| 2015 | Gwen May Bursary |
| 2015 | Associate Membership Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) |
| 2012 | A4 Printmakers prizewinner |
Research Interests
Research interests and expertise
Laura’s research investigates the tensions between different interpretations of error: from binary and digital evaluations to the more abstract and human ways we approach and think about error. Her interest comes from a meshing together of these tendencies and the slippages between various modes of interpretation. Consequently, in her artistic practice error exists as both activity and subject matter, and the projects expose relationality rather than define discrete types of error.
Her research interests centre around expanded print practices and culture, and the materiality of nonhuman agencies and relational methodologies – which are uncovered through her print-based practice. Her PhD ‘The Agency of Error in Post-digital Print’ (2023) explored the relational agency of error. Proposing that error cannot be autonomous and is only active as part of a larger relational web of agencies that does not prioritise the individual (nor the human). Her practice is situated in relation to Katherine N Hayles ideas around nonconscious cognition (2017), where things – such as paper, ink, and plastic printer bodies for example – think without thinking. Laura’s research challenges techno-computational logics, specifically systems and algorithmic thought. Rather she suggests a relational position, drawing on post-digital practices and culture, actor network theory and new materialism.
Research topics
- Printmaking
- Expanded field of printmaking
- Post-digital and Post-digital Print
- Analogue and low-tech technologies
- Textual practices
- Writing as practice
- Diagramming
- Artist books and zines
- DiY / DiWo
- Instructions
- Error, braking, failure
- Not knowing and unlearning
- Agency
- Nonhuman and machine relations
- New Materialism
- Liveness
- Events
Areas of teaching
- Studio practice and critical studies including:
- Printmaking
- Post-digital print
- Diagramming
- Textual practices and writing as practice
- DiY / DiWo
- Error, Failure, Not Knowing
- Artistic and machine labour
- Critical Theories specifically New Materialism, Post-digital and Expanded field of printmaking.
Research Students
Current research students
Cari Edmunds, Diagnosis Deficit - a practice-led enquiry into Female ADHD. 3rd supervisor.
