Louisa Chambers

Studio C6

Since graduating with a MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2007), Louisa Chambers has established a studio-based practice with an enquiry into expanded Painting.

Louisa has been developing a body of work that incorporates a simple folded form. These folded shapes are recorded from observation becoming an abstracted still life. Appropriated patterns from walls, fences, and floors are translated onto architectural paper and transfigured into temporary three-dimensional structures. She is interested in the patterned tessellations that are on the surface and when manipulated create other spaces, angles, and areas of illusion. The scenes and shapes that feature tilt back and forth between abstraction and figuration. The transient quality often used as the medium in the paintings mirror that of the temporal nature of the folded paper shapes that are recorded in the paintings. The forms can be simply squashed down and reconstructed again. These works are part of an on-going research into depiction and visual perception on two and three-dimensional surfaces.

Louisa studied an MA in Painting, RCA (2007) and BA (Hons) Fine Art at UCA, Farnham (2005). She is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. Since graduating, she has worked on various public site-specific commissions and has been a finalist in competitions such as: Beep 2020, Elysium Gallery, Swansea (2020); Paint, PS Mirabel, Manchester (2019); Nottingham Castle Open, Nottingham Castle Museum (2015); Creekside Open, APT Gallery, London (2015); and John Moores 25, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2008).    

Recent exhibitions include: At Our Still Lives Posed, PAPER and Axel Obiger, Berlin (2020); Expanded Studio Project, PS2 and Primary, Belfast and Nottingham (2019);  Enough is Definitely Enough, General Practice, Manchester (2020) and Lincoln (2019); Pacific Breeze, White Conduit Projects, London (2018); Manuscript – Letter Home, China Academy of Arts Museum, Hangzhou, China (2018, travelling exhibition throughout China 2018-19); and Razzle Dazzle, Transition Gallery, London (2016).