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Dr Louise Bell is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Plymouth. Her practice-based research explores empathy, postmemory, and phenomenology through interdisciplinary methods including illustration, walking, and curation. She holds a practice-led PhD from Falmouth University (2017–2023), funded by the AHRC, which examined Edith Stein’s philosophy of empathy in visual practice. Her work interrogates embodied engagements with place and the past through creative methodologies.
Teaching interests include visual analysis, semiotics, contextual studies, and authorial illustration. She has taught across undergraduate and postgraduate programs in illustration, communication design, and MA Art Design courses. Research focuses on trauma studies, walking practices, intersectionality, and gender studies in contemporary art.
Awarded the FSA Award for Outstanding Curation in 2016 for 'Sophronia', Dr Bell has exhibited widely including solo shows at Devonport Guildhall (2019) and residencies at Old Bank Studios (2018). She has presented research at institutions like Anglia Ruskin University, Cardiff University, and Université de Lorraine, exploring themes such as repair aesthetics, kintsugi principles in mapping, and liminal spatial experiences.
Her creative work combines object-making, writing, and curation to explore absences and partial knowledges, employing feminist and intersectional frameworks. Key projects include 'An Attempt at Revealing a Place through Walking' and 'Repair as Illustration', which investigate material and spatial memory through interdisciplinary lenses.
