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Dr Nora Duggan is a lecturer in Lens-based Media and Visual Culture at the TU Dublin School of Art and Design and the School of Media. She currently delivers modules in photography, professional practice and visual culture on various BA programmes, and supervises PhD students.

She holds a Digital Art & Humanities PhD (University of Galway), an MFA in Fine Art: Art in the Digital World (National College of Art and Design) and a BA in Fine Art (Technological University Dublin).

 

Her teaching is informed by her applied art background as a stained glass artisan and current art practice. Through sustained observation and recording of natural light, she employs lens-based imagery and post-production manipulation techniques to visualise interactions between stillness and movement that imply reciprocal interactions of time. This practice also informs her frequently collaborative interdisciplinary research.

 

Research activities: Performance Paper: “Threads of Care: Mourning Through Textiles as Collective Political Action”, written & performed by Saray Sanchez, Dr Jye O’Sullivan and Dr Nora Duggan, Stitching Solidarity: Activism in Textile Art Symposium, Belfast School of Art, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, 1-4 March, 2025

 

Workshop: “Intuitive Action, A Sensing Workshop” delivered by Brenda Duggan & Dr Nora Duggan,Arts Plural ELIA Biennial Conference 2024, 20 – 23 November, Milan, Italy.

 

Supported by Kerry County Council as part of their 2019-2020 Creative Ireland Programme, Dr Duggan and material culture expert Alison MacCormaic worked with school and community groups located in Lixnaw, Co. Kerry, to produce The Illustrated Inventory of Everyday Objects, an 80-page bound inventory of Lixnaw’s contemporary material cultural objects and The Illustrated Animation of Lixnaw, a 3min 30sec animation featuring drawings produced by the children of Lixnaw.

Further arts-based research includes ongoing collaboration with transatlantic historian Dr Maxine Keoghan and the Irish diaspora in Newfoundland, Canada, to establish a network of stakeholders for the promotion of academic and cultural partnerships between Newfoundland and Ireland.