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Louisa Chambers

Nottingham
Louisa Chambers is an Artist (Painter and Lecturer). Studio at Backlit in Nottingham.
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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).

 

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