Louise Garland
Long Eaton
Fine artist/sculptor using wood and mixed media to create wall constructions and 3D works.
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The work of Louise Garland engages with philosophical beliefs in the continuum of life. It examines the nature of our existence, linking the personal with the metaphysical (especially from a female standpoint). Her work frequently references the collective notions of archaic symbolism and almost always incorporates found materials and objects into each piece. There is often an alliance in Garland's sculptures and sculptural montages between the familiar and the unfamiliar as deconstructed materials reinvent themselves, whilst forming a seductive quality to the surfaces. Her works are rigorously composed through the use of measurement, employing geometry and mathematical calculations often sourced from nature. Garland presents us with thought provoking, emotional and sometimes witty configurations of both our immediate existence, our self-constructed histories and our greater consciousness.
Half Venetian, Garland's parents met in World War Two and afterwards operated a small village shop in Leicestershire until their untimely deaths. Although the Italian connection sometimes surfaces in Garland's work she has lived in the East Midlands her whole life, studying, teaching and practising in Nottingham for thirty years where her work is regularly commissioned and enjoys a modest hand of collectors.
Garland was a member of the 1980s group Visible Women and is a member of the Bradford Gurdjieff Society.
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