Ms Sarah Turton

I am an Associate Lecturer and PhD researcher in Transtechnology Research, in the School of Art, Design and Architecture at Plymouth University. My research is interested in the role of colour in cultural expression. The research project: Technologies of Soul: Instrumentalisation of Blue explores the question of why the colour blue turns up in some descriptions and expressions of transcendence in contemplation, psychology, philosophy, art and creative practices.  

2000-2003, BA (Hons) English, Lancaster University. 

Associate Lecturer;

2023-2024 HTCC521, History, Theory and Critical Context, 5.1, BA (Hons) Architecture. 

2023-2024 ADA600, Common Dissertation: Critical Practices, BA (Hons) DMD/GAD. 

Transtechnology Research Seminars

2023, Oscillating blue fissure, when/is blue just a colour in art and creative practices? Series; With an Ear to the Ground: Thinking with Sound and Intellectual History.

2022, Disrupting ideologies; the role of blue in images of the Madonna. Series; Drawing Things Together: chance encounters on the dissecting-table.

2021, The emptiness of the ground between blue and soul; complementary epistemologies of art and science. Series; Vesalius at the Printers: Perception, Representation, and Vocabularies. A Scattered Seminar Series.

2019, Blue is Soul; soul technologies and transformation through fabulation; seeing the excess novelty of blue in psychology and spirituality. Series; Analytical Practices: A Fictional Seminar Series, Fiction, Image, Apparatus. 

2022, The transcendental role of the colour blue in the ubiquitous, blue willow pattern plate, Transtechnology Research Reader, 2021-22,

2017, Blue; practical philosophy of creativity, poster abstract, ADA Expo'17,

https://www.trans-techresearch.net/research/phd-research/phd-candidates/sarah-turton/