Dr Sara Andersdotter

Bio

Dr Sara Andersdotter is an academic, artist and researcher teaching as a Senior Lecturer on the Visual Communications Programme. She has worked in Higher Education since 2005, and has taught and led practical, theoretical and research modules across both undergraduate and postgraduate courses at different institutions in the UK. She takes an inclusive and collaborative approach to teaching and learning, and has worked on several projects where students have been invited to become active participants and collaborators, including curriculum design, and a non-hierarchical journal of research.

With an undergraduate and a postgraduate degree in Fine Art, Sara completed a PhD in Fine Art at the University of the Arts London in 2015. Her thesis challenges existing metaphors of memory, while putting forward an alternative framework for exploring the experience of memory in art practice. This framework draws heavily on Deleuzoguattarian and Bergsonian theories, and is explored and tested through her installation art practice.

As a practicing artist, Sara has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1999. Her art practice is primarily image and installation based, using a range of different media, from photography and projections of still and moving images, to growing matter, bait camera footage, smell, heat, and the use of text-to-speech software.