Graduating with a BA (hons) Animation in 1999, my animated films have been shown all around the world. I have taught animation for nearly twenty years at Teesside University and specialise in 2D and stop-motion animation.

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My interest in the concept of the uncanny first began when I encountered Freud’s essay The Uncanny (1919) whilst studying MA Fine Art. Starting my MA as a painter of still life i emerged as a successful installation artist using the material of taxidermy to explore life and death.

 

The passion to the search for the uncanny has never left and now manifests itself in the form of a practice based PhD looking at the uncanny in animation, and in particular stop-motion animation and the automaton within as well as the heterochonomic space that is animation. 

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For more information on my recent publications go to the publications page or check out my research profile https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/persons/katherine-oaposconnor