Staff Profile:Dr Bill Prosser

Name:

Dr Bill Prosser

Job Title:

Senior Research Fellow

Responsibilities:

• Research by artistic practice and publication for the Leverhulme Trust-funded 'Beckett and the Phenomenology of Doodles' research project

Areas of Interest:

I worked for many years as an illustrator, making numerous drawings for a very wide variety of clients, but for the last ten years I have focussed solely on my own practice, which is to use drawing as a means of exploring the reciprocal relationship between inner and outer experiences. My continuing focus on the history and current use of drawing in all its forms, particularly its similarities with and differences from written texts, underpins both my visual and written work.

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

Publications and Practice as Research:

Practice as Research

Selected Exhibitions:

• Art et Litterature, Paris, forthcoming 2008.
• Trinity College Library, Dublin, forthcoming 2008.
• Taylor Institute, University of Oxford, 2007.
• Art et Litterature, Paris, 2006/7.
• Samuel Beckett: The Irish European. Museum of Reading, 2006/7.
• Human Wishes. Bob Kayley Studio Theatre, University of Reading, 2006/7.
• Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2004/5.

Book chapters and journal articles

• Prosser, B. Object Drawing. Performance Research, 12(4), 2007, 1-6.
• Prosser, B. Drawing From Beckett. Performance Research, 12(1), 2007.
• Prosser, B. Richard Billingham. bana, April, 2004.
• Prosser, B. Andre Francois. AOI Journal, 2003.
• Prosser, B. Wearing Thin. AOI Journal, 2003.
• Prosser, B. Tomi Ungerer: Erotoscope. Journal of Visual Art Practice 1(3), 2002. Prosser, B. Illustration and Word/Image Relationships. AOI Journal, 2001.

See a full list of recent publications and practice as research.