Artist statement
Louisa Chambers examines ideas surrounding machines, devices and inventions, and how they could assist humans living in temporary or placeless worlds. Multiple dimensions and perspectives are explored through the materiality of paint and the repetition of geometric motifs which are floating ambiguously in space. Impossible architectural constructions or forms are situated in alternative universes and dreamworlds suggesting an escape from the technological daily burden of robotic control on our lives.
Louisa Chambers was a finalist in Bow Arts Open 2012, Core Arts Prize 2011 and selected in 2010 and 2009 for the Salon Art Prize, Matt Roberts Art. She is currently Artist-in-Residence at Repton School, Derby. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2007 she has shown her work extensively.
Qualifications and training
- 2012 PGCE (Post Compulsory Education) Art and Design, Institute of Education, London
- 2007 MA Painting, Royal College Of Art, London
- 2005 BA (Hons) Fine Art (first class honours), University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey
Group exhibitions
- 2013 Discernible, Zeitgeist Arts Project, ASC Project Space, London
- 2013 Needle's Eye, New Court Gallery and Gallery No.1, Derbyshire
- 2012 ZAP Open 2012, Bond House, ASC Project Space, London
- 2012 Flatland, Blyth Gallery, London
- 2012 Needle's Eye, BayArt Gallery, Cardiff
- 2012 Equinox, Transition Gallery, London
- 2012 Needle's Eye, Transition Gallery, London
- 2011 Core Gallery Open, Core Gallery, London
- 2011 BAT Pack II, Mile End Art Pavilion, London
- 2011 Contemporary Perspectives on Water Colour, Mall Galleries, London
- 2011 Drawn Together, Jeannie Avent Gallery (in association with Dulwich Picture Gallery), London
- 2010 RCA Secret 2010, Royal College of Art, London
- 2010 Invasion of Privacy, Not Famous Yet, Oxford
- 2010 Melt, Mile End Art Pavilion, London
- 2010 Salon Art Prize 2010, Matt Roberts Art, London
- 2010 Rhizomatic, The Departure Gallery, London
- 2010 BAT Pack, Bow Arts Trust Live/Work Show 2010, Mile End Art Pavilion, London
- 2010 Pistols & Pollinators: A Collaborative Project, Accident and Emergence, London
- 2009 Secrets, Royal College of Art, London
- 2009 One Night Stand, Accident and Emergence, The Flea Pitt Gallery, London
- 2009 Salon 09, Matt Roberts Art, London
- 2009 Fault Line: Art in the Age of Anxiety, The Nunnery, London
- 2009 P1, Bow Arts Trust, London
- 2009 Skyscrapers under the Sea, Madame Lillies, London
- 2009 Drawing(s) with Dolphins, Crimes Town, London
- 2008 Secrets, Royal College of Art, London
- 2008 John Moores 25, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
- 2008 00' Nature, Contemporary Art Projects, London
- 2007 My Penguin, 39, London
- 2006 Taster, Hockney Gallery, London
Curated projects
- 2012 Flatland, Blyth Gallery, London
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2012 ZAP Open 2012, Bond House, ASC Project Space, London
- 2011 Core Gallery Open 2011, Core Gallery, London
- 2011 Artworks Open 2011, Artworks Project Space, London
- 2010 Salon Art Prize 2010, Matt Roberts Art, London
- 2009 'Romance Derived', Fringe: MK Annual Painting Prize 2009, Milton Keynes
- 2009 Salon 09, Matt Roberts Art, London
- 2008 John Moores 25 Contemporary Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Publications
- 2012 Paint, Garageland 13, Transition Editions, Feature: Are Louisa Chambers' Paintings Abstract? by Ruth Solomons
- 2011 Core Gallery Open, Online Catalogue
- 2011 Salon Art Prize 2007-2011, Matt Roberts Art, London
- 2011 Fook- Apps for iPhone, Interview Feature:Alchemy and Utopia
- 2010 Salon Art Price 2010 Catalogue
- 2010 Retitle.com, Artist Focus-Painting, July 2010
- 2009 Migration, Garageland 9, Transition Editions
- 2009 Fringe MK Annual Painting Prize 2009, Exhibition Catalogue
- 2009 Soft, Science Fiction and Space Travel, Issue One, page 24
- 2009 Fault Line: Art in the Age of Anxiety, Sarah Ellson, Published by Bow Arts Trust, Exhibition Catalogue
- 2009 A-N Magazine, issue June 2009, Feature: Inside the Studio, page 11
- 2008 The Marmite Prize, Susak Press
- 2008 John Moores 25 Contemporary Painting Prize, Exhibition Catalogue
- 2008 The Shoreditch Map, Issue September 2008, Interview Feature
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