About me
Catherine Dormor joined the University in January 2023 as Head of Westminster School of Arts and Professor of Textile Practices and Feminisms. She is an active artist, writer and academic, with a profile across feminist practices. She focuses upon ways in which textile functions as language, method and matter as a means to articulate what it means to be in community. Recent work involves the notion of the repair and reparation as acts and actions that do not seek to hide the violence of the rupture, but act as spaces for exploration and collective understandings of one another.
Teaching
Catherine has supervisory experience across textiles, fine art and fashion areas. She frames her pedagogies around compassion and a determination to deliver robust and rigorous practice-led teaching that meets the needs of contemporary post-graduate routes. She has taught widely across a range of phases, including compulsory education, undergraduate, taught postgraduate and postgraduate research.
Research
Catherine's research is focused around the capacity of textile practices, processes and materials to offer language and methods for understanding and articulating what it means to be in community. To this end she deploys material methodologies, such as stitch, weave, seams and fraying which become rich and fertile ground. She exhibits artworks with a number of groups and has held solo shows. She has published in a range of journals and reviews regularly for these and other journals. She is currently regional editor for 'Textile: the journal of cloth and culture'. Recent publications include 'A Philosophy of Textiles: between practice and theory' and 'Transnational Belonging: and Female Agency in the Arts' (ed with Basia Sliwinska).