Rosalyn Driscoll

A sculptor, painter and papermaker for thirty years, Driscoll has for the last sixteen years focused on making sculptures that explore touch, many of which may be touched as well as seen. She is developing the theory and practice of aesthetic touch through making and exhibiting tactile sculptures, documenting viewer reactions, and writing a manuscript, Whole Body Seeing: Touch in the Visual Arts to establish a theoretical and practical foundation for the inclusion of touch in art. She exchanges information about haptics with the community of scientists and engineers researching touch world-wide, and her artwork resides in several research labs in the US and abroad. Her commitment to investigating haptic perception and advocating for touch grows out of an awareness of the growing alienation from the body. Her curiosity about touch encompasses interest in somatics, body-mind, perception and cognition.