Esra Plumer is Assistant Professor of Art
History at the Arkin University of Creative Arts
and Design, Cyprus. She completed her PhD on
the work of Unica Zürn and her development of
the technique of automatism as an artistic
strategy at the University of Nottingham. Her
wider research focuses on 20th-century
modernist narratives, with an extensive
background in the history of psychoanalysis and psychiatric treatment methods. Other
publications include monographic accounts of
Hans Bellmer, Robert Desnos and
contemporary Cypriot art and artists.
