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Frances Robertson
Dr Frances Robertson is an independent researcher, and formerly lecturer and reader in material cultures of drawing at Glasgow School of Art. She researches practices of drawing and print with reference to the history of technology, visual communication and the sociology of knowledge. Her artistic practice investigates narratives of the natural world and traditions of observational drawing. Selected publications include: ‘Power in the landscape: Regenerating the Scottish Highlands after WW2’ in Kjetil Fallan (ed.), The Culture of Nature in the History of Design (Routledge, 2019); ‘Thomas Telford’s tour in the Highlands: Shaping the wild landscape through word and image’ in Jan Baetens et al. (eds), Art and Science in Word and Image: Exploration and Discovery (Koninklijke Brill, 2017); ‘Chapter 13: Photography and illustration’ in Martin Conboy and Adrian Bingham (eds), The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, vol. 3 (Edinburgh University Press, 2020); Print Culture: Technologies of the Printed Page from Steam Press to eBook (Routledge, 2013) and ‘Redrafting domestic life: women textile designers and new professional enterprises in early 1970s Britain’ in Textile History (2024).