Louise Winter is interested in questioning the fixed identities of objects and materials so they defy usual definitions and expectations, or, as the artist Tom Friedman has said, ‘Testing what matter is by allowing it not to be’.
Louise Winter is interested in questioning the fixed identities of objects and materials so they defy usual definitions and expectations, or, as the artist Tom Friedman has said, ‘Testing what matter is by allowing it not to be’.
Central to her practice are ideas of displacement: is the location of material central to its definition so that if it is displaced from its ‘real’ context can it still be regarded as the same object, where then does it exist, if at all? Louise is interested in how the re-assembling of such material can start to question the boundaries of the real by creating a tension between the literal and abstract readings of these objects as signifiers.
Winter’s practice is investigative in its nature and form, moving between object, process, event and performance. She doesn’t ‘create’ objects, but works with already existing materials to collapse the distance between art and the mundane, exploring the poetic potential of the everyday.
Bio:
Louise Winter is an artist, writer and curator based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2011 Winter graduated with an MA in Fine Art with distinction and, since then, has exhibited regularly across the UK and internationally. Louise has held solo exhibitions in Leeds, Newcastle and Exeter and in 2014 was shortlisted for the Beers Award for Contemporary Emerging Art. In 2015 she was selected as artist in residence with ARTErra, Portugal and exhibited as part of The Multiple Exposure Project: Outside the White Cube, in Metro Manila, Philippines. Last year Winter exhibited with &Model Gallery, Leeds, The Royal Standard, Liverpool and Galeria Zero, Barcelona.
Winter is a member of The Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies and has held Pop Up Solo Installations at Kamfest and Stara Tobacna. She has also participated in Open Studio events, the group exhibition KAOs at Layerjeva Hiša and the International Biennale of Installation and Sculpture-Multiplicity and Repetition, IAVPOA Art.
Louise Winter, Contemporary Artist
Tel: 051 4949 14
2022- to present: Member of ZDSLU (The Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies)
2013- 2017: Studio holder at The NewBridge Project, Newcastle, UK
Solo Exhibitions:
2023: Artist Residency & Exhibition, Hiša na Hribu, Zavod CCC, Slovenia
2022: Pop Up Installation, Kamfest Kamnik, Slovenia
2021: Gravel Path, Public Installation, Stara Tobacna, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017: Pop Goes the Weasel, Leazes Park Bandstand, Newcastle
2017: Pop Goes the Weasel, Slugtown, Newcastle
2016: Pop Goes the Weasel, Annex, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle
2015: Artist in Residence, ArtERRA, Tondela, Portugal
2015: Dimensions Variable, 36 Lime Street Gallery, Newcastle
2015: Residency and Solo Exhibition, The Shed, Haltwhistle (funded by ACE and NAD)
2014: Metanoia, St.Michael's Church, Heaton Arts Festival, Newcastle
2014: Artist in Residence, Allenheads Contemporary Art, Northumberland
2013: Commission: Site Specific Installation, Gallery 333, Exeter
2012: Per Diem, GreySpace Gallery, Leeds
2010: Ballon Performance, Peckham Rye, London
Selected Group Exhibitions/Events:
2023: Kvadrat, Razstava Sodobne Kineticne Keramike, Layerjeva Hiša in Stolp Škrlovec, curated by Kristina Rutar
2022: KAOS International Festival, Layer Hisa Gallery, Kranj, Slovenia (supported by Carnica Institute and Mestna Obcina Kranj )
2021: International Biennale of Installation and Sculpture, Multiplicity and Repetition, IAVPOA ART, (online)
2021: Open Studios, Stara Tobacna, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2017: Artistic Encounter, The Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle
2017: Les Boites, Slugtown at Suede Gallery, Edinburgh
2017: Open Houses, Saltaire Arts Trail, Saltaire
2017: Moving on up, Moving on out, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle
2016: Mince: SHELF, Market Way, London
2016: Nice Waves, Jambon, The NewBridge Project, Newcastle
2016: Hotdesk, Earls Court Arts Hub, London
2016: On to the next, Muesli, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2016: Art Meeting Spring, GaleriaZero, Barcelona
2016: Early Warning: MDP Associates, &Model Gallery, Leeds
2015: Charette: Spectacle, Resistance, Material, Newcastle University
2015: #Utopia, Art Licks Festival, Clapham Orangery, London
2015: PLATE, Product Lifetimes and the Environment, Nottingham Trent University
2015: Unusual Space, 3irty 2wo Gallery, Scuthorpe
2015: Toast, The New School House Gallery, York
2014: Bath Night, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle
2014: Eulogy, Vane, Newcastle
2014: Painting and Sculpture Show, Candid Arts, Islington, London
2013: Curated Selection: Axisweb Online Exhibition and Essay, curated by Alice Bradshaw, Axisweb
2013: Off Quay Gallery Launch, Off Quay Studios, Newcastle
2013: Placeless, Place, The Shed, Contemporary Art Gallery, Haltwhistle
2012: 4th Annual Empty Shop Exhibition, Empty Shop, Durham
2012: Open Exhibition, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick
2012: Open Exhibition, Crocus Gallery, Nottingham
2011: Found (Two Person Exhibition), Moving Gallery, Newcastle
2011: MA Visual Arts Degree Show, Northumbria University, Newcastle
2011: Mixed Media Exhibition, Candid Arts, Islington, London
2011: Moving On, Galleries Inc. Central Square, Newcastle
2010: Creative Cohesion: Open Studio Event, Studio Q, Creative Partnerships, Sunderland
2009: Instant Mash Collective, Empty Shop, Durham
2009: Points of Departure, Unit 1, The Gates, Durham
2008: Salon 08, Vine Place Gallery, London
2008: Summer Show, Camberwell College, University of the Arts, London
2007: Cornered, Space, Camberwell College of Arts, London
2007: Inside/Outside, Mile End Arts Pavillion, London
Curated Projects:
2013: Placeless, Place, The SHED Gallery, Haltwhistle
2012: Hold My Coat, Park View Shopping Centre, Whitley Bay
2011: Found (Two Person Exhibition), Moving Gallery, Newcastle
2009: Attitudes to Form, Empty Shop, Durham
2009: Points of Departure, Unit 1, The Gates, Durham
Awards:
2014: Beers Award for Contemporary Emerging Art (Shortlisted)
Press:
2023: Keramika v gibanju, Gorenjski Glas Article
https://www.gorenjskiglas.si/article/20230514/C/230519908/1168/keramika-v-gibanju?fbclid=IwAR3CKsLO8atYDSSzPJU6sMM1AaeWQ65vPrXYV1hSOc7Rx6_PxLntgK5dzRA
2022: Artist Interview, 'Art is Food for the Soul', Modre Novice
https://www.modre-novice.si/pogovori/louise-winter-umetnost-je-hrana-za-duso/
2022: Sodobni kolaž se vnovic predstavlja na festivalu KAOS
https://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/vizualna-umetnost/sodobni-kolaz-se-vnovic-predstavlja-na-festivalu-kaos/630536
2016: On to the next, Muesli, The Royal Standard, Exhibition Review, Corridor8
http://www.corridor8.co.uk/online/review-on-to-the-next-muesli-the-royal-standard-liverpool/
2015: Exhibition Review, Corridor8
http://www.corridor8.co.uk/online/review-louise-winter-the-shed-haltwhistle-northumberland/
2015: Residency and Solo Exhibition Preview, The Crack http://www.thecrackmagazine.com/view-editorial/2372
2014: Five2Watch in the North East, Spotlight Features, Axisweb http://www.axisweb.org/features/spotlight/five2watch-north-east/
2013: Preview of Placeless, Place, exhibition, The Journal http://www.thejournal.co.uk/culture/establishing-place-best-todays-art-5744549
2013: Interview with international contemporary art magazine Peripheral ARTeries, July Issue http://issuu.com/artpress/docs/peripheral_arteries_art_review_-__j_425b53057d6fc3/66
2013: Interview with curator Alice Bradshaw on the use of rubbish in contemporary art practice, Artists Talking, a-n Magazine
http://www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/2334120/0/2/desc
2012: Interview with Bhavani Esapathi, Henry Moore Institute, Per Diem http://www.greyspacegalleries.co.uk/?page_id=23
2009: Artful Lodgers, Points of Departure Review by David Wood, Northern Echo
Educational experience:
Tertiary 2011 - MA Fine Art (Distinction), Northumbria University, Newcastle
2005 - BA Painting (2:1), Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts, London
