Approved: 28.10.2009

Louisa Chambers

Artist, Curator, Lecturer / academic, Researcher, Teacher

Approved: 28.10.2009

Louisa Chambers is a painter with a studio based practice. She has been developing a series of works that incorporates a simple folded form. Focusing on how a folded shape can be transfigured at speed from a temporary structure (three dimensional) into a flat two-dimensional space (painting).  Each form can be squashed again, folded, opened, twisted and then recorded from observation.

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Artist Statement

Louisa Chambers is a painter with a studio based practice. She has been developing a series of works that incorporates a simple folded form. Focusing on how a folded shape can be transfigured at speed from a temporary structure (three dimensional) into a flat two-dimensional space (painting).  Each form can be squashed again, folded, opened, twisted and then recorded from observation.

Recent paintings are close up studies of reconfigured patterns from found fragments of printed fabric and paper. The colours are not true to the original sources and instead are intuitively selected. She is interested in the printed patterned tessellations that are on the surface of these forms and when manipulated create other spaces, angles and areas of illusion. These works are part of on-going research into depiction and visual perception on two and three dimensional surfaces. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, has been a finalist in numerous competitions and has worked on various public site specific commissions.

Louisa Chambers lives and works in Nottingham, UK and is a Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University.  She graduated from The Royal College of Art in 2007 (MA in Painting) and University for the Creative Arts, Farnham in 2005 (BA Fine Art).  She has exhibited her work throughout the UK and has been a finalist in competitions such as Nottingham Castle Open 2015, Nottingham Castle Museum (Purchase Prize Winner, Nottingham 2015), Creekside Open, APT Gallery (London 2015) and John Moores 25 at the Walker Art Gallery in (Liverpool 2008).  Recent exhibitions include: ‘Transcendence,’ The Cello Factory (London 2018), ‘Manuscript – Letter Home,’ China Academy of Arts Museum, (Hangzhou, China 2018) ‘Veneer’ Wirksworth Festival (Derbyshire 2017). ‘Line and Fold’ PAPER Gallery, CAMPBASEL Revisted, A-Space (Basel 2017), ‘Razzle Dazzle’ Transition Gallery (London 2016). ‘Now for Tomorrow II’ Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery (Nottingham 2016). ‘If a pair is two, what is three? Paravent and Razzle: All that Jazz’, The Harley Gallery (Nottinghamshire 2016). ‘Autocatalytic Future Games’ No Format (London 2015). ‘In Miniature’ Small Collections Room Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham 2015).  ‘About Painting’ Castlefield Gallery (Manchester 2014).

CV & Education

Education

2012                     PGCE (Post Compulsory Education), Institute of Education, UCL

2007                     MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London

2005                     BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class Honours), UCA, Farnham

2002                     BTEC Diploma in Art and Design: (Distinction), UCA, Farnham

Selected Exhibitions

2018

Trancendence, The Cello Factory London

2017

Manuscript - Letter Home, China Academy of Arts Museum, Hangzhou, China

Veneer, Wirksworth Festival, Wirksworth, Derbyshire (co-curated exhibition)

Line and Fold, PAPER Gallery, CAMPBASEL Revisted, A-Space, Basel

Retrospective, The London Arts Board, The Camberwell Arts Festival, FORTYSEVENLDN, London

Figure and Form, The Marlow Gallery, Derbyshire

Precision of Thought, SE9 Container Gallery, London

Magical Geometry, The Chapel Gallery, Lancashire

2016

Razzle Dazzle, Transition Gallery, London 

Drawn For Something Else, Rogue Project Space, Manchester

Wham! Transition Gallery, The Manchester Contemporary, Manchester

Wish You Were Here, Estuary Festival 2016, Metal, Southend-on-Sea, Essex 

BAD SIGNS/ Adjustments, Atkinsons-Kram Gallery, London

Now For Tomorrow II, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham

Lift, London Arts Board, London

If a pair is two, what is three? Part 2 - Razzle: All the Jazz, Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire

If a pair is two, what is three? Part 1 - In the Paravent, Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire

2015

Nottingham Castle Open 2015, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham

Geometric: Wonky and Otherwise, Déda, Derby

Creekside Open 2015, Selected by Richard Deacon, APT Gallery, London 

Autocatalytic Future Games, no format Gallery, London 

In Miniature, Small Collections Room, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham

RCA Secrets, Royal College of Art Battersea, Dyson Building, London

(detail), The Usher Gallery, Lincoln

2014          

Harlequin, Gallery No.1, Repton, Derbyshire (Solo)         

50 50 50, Syson, Nottingham

Salon 6, Old Lockup Studio, Cromford

Wirksworth Festival, Wirksworth

Pareidolia, Pluspace, Coventry

Water Colour Revolution, Saatchi Gallery, London

The Summer Lodge, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham

(detail), H Project Space, Bangkok, Thailand,Transition Gallery, London and The Usher Gallery, Lincoln

About Painting, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

Paint Like You Mean It, Interview Room 11, Edinburgh

RCA Secret, Royal College of Art Battersea, Dyson Building, London

2013                    

First Come First Served, Lion and Lamb Gallery, London

Crash Open, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London

Stereoscope, Mrs Rick's Cupboard, Primary, Nottingham (Solo)

Rotation, New Court Gallery, Repton, Derby (Solo)

Discernible, Zeitgeist Art Projects, ASC Project Space, London

Needle's Eye, New Court Gallery, Repton, Derbyshire

2012                    

Flatland, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College London curated research project

Needle's Eye, BayArt Gallery, Cardiff

Bow Arts Open, Bermondsey Project Space, London

Equinox, Transition Gallery, London

Needle's Eye, Transition Gallery, London

2011                    

Contemporary Perspectives on Water Colour, Mall Galleries, London

Drawn Together, Jeannie Avent Gallery, London

2010                    

Melt, Mile End Art Pavilion, London

Rhizomatic, The Departure Gallery, London

Pistols and Pollinators, Accident and Emergence, London

2009                    

Fault Line, The Nunnery, London

Skyscrapers under the Sea, Madame Lillies, London

Drawing(s) with Dolphins, Crimes Town Gallery, London

2008                    

John Moores 25, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Awards/Competitions

2016

Spectrum, PS Mirabel, Manchester Third Prize Winner

2015

Nottingham Castle Open, Nottingham Purchase Prize Winner

Creekside Open 2015, APT Gallery, London 

2014                 

Paint Like You Mean It, Interview Room 11, Edinburgh

2013                    

Crash Open, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London

Midlands Open 2013, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington

2012                    

ZAP Open 2012, Zeitgeist Art Projects, London

Bow Arts Open, Bermondsey Project Space, London

2011                    

Core Arts Prize, Core Gallery, London

2010                    

Salon Arts Prize 2010, Matt Roberts Arts Foundation

2009                    

Fringe MK, Annual Painting Prize

2009                    

Salon Arts Prize 2009, Matt Arts Foundation

2008                    

John Moores 25 Contemporary Painting Prize

Residences/Teaching/Projects

Current                 Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Fine Art (0.5), Nottingham Trent University 

Current                 Visiting Lecturer in Fine Art, Loughborough University

2012 - 2016          Artist-in-Residence, Repton School, Derby

Press and Publications

2017

The Times, 23rd January 2017, Artists Schools Latest Big Draw by Greg Hurst

2016

Interview Feature: Floorr Magazine, Issue 1, January 2016

2015

Geometry: Wonky and Otherwise, Exhibition Catalogue, Blurb Editions

2014                    

(detail), Transition Editions

About Painting, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, The Skinny by Sacha Waldron

Paint Like You Mean It, IR11, Exhibition Catalogue

2013                    

Louisa Chambers' Stereoscope at Mrs Rick's Cupboard, Patternsthatconnect, Andy Parkinson

Ten artists you should be collecting now: Axis picks it’s up and coming talents, Culture 24

2012                    

ZAP Open, Zeitgeist Art Projects, Online Catalogue

Needle's Eye, Online Catalogue

Paint, Garageland 13, Feature: Are Louisa Chambers' paintings abstract? By Ruth Solomons

2011                    

Core Gallery Open, Online Catalogue

Salon Art Prize 2007-2011, Matt Roberts Arts Foundation

Fook, Apps for iPhone, Interview Feature

2010                    

The Independent, 9th November 2010, feature: Which picture is by a famous artist? Answers on a postcard by Rob Sharp

Re-title.com, Artist focus-Painting, July 2010

2009                    

Migration, Garageland 9, Transition Editions

Fringe MK Annual Painting Prize 2009, Exhibition Catalogue

Soft, Science Fiction and Space Travel, Issue One

Fault Line, Sarah Ellson, Exhibition Catalogue Bow Arts

A-N Magazine, issue June 2009, feature: Inside the Studio

2008                    

John Moores 25 Contemporary Painting Prize, Exhibition Catalogue

The Shoreditch Map, Issue September 2008, Interview Feature Education