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Louisa Chambers

Date of birth 16.Apr.83
Place of birth Northampton, UK
Country of residence United Kingdom
Contact lkchambers21@hotmail.com

Inventing fantastical objects and constructions are the starting points of my recent practice. These spaces and objects symbolize personal narratives; they are aesthetically playful but have an underlining dark humor. I primarily use memory but also appropriate from source materials that reference architecture, popular culture, scientific technology, folklore and mysticism. From these sources and through the mediums of paint and drawing, shapes transform into anthropomorphizing inanimate objects or machines. Sometimes they are clunky and fragile never able to function and teetering on the verge of collapse.

During the process of painting, shapes lock together hovering between abstraction and figuration. Enjoying the act of blurring fiction and reality sometimes an eye appears in a dark space; the towers gain cameras as eyes or a separate limb appears on a structure creating humorous absurdity. As a solution, my invented helmets become an internal bubble to blank out the surroundings of the constant buzzing from the city.

Inspiration is derived from experiences living in contemporary society, the constant technological bombardment and physical dislocation. I am interested in modernist ideals concerning play and objects that assist humans in a temporary, placeless world. However the work conjures up dystopian feelings where objects or spaces seem to be under surveillance and attack, needing protection. I enjoy this conflict between ideas and realisation but also the friction of falling in and out of personal dreamscapes.

Louisa lives and works in London. She studied an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art (2005-2007) and at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design (2002-2005) where she achieved a BA(Hons)Fine Art with first class honours.

Forthcoming Exhibitions:
Pistols & Pollinators, Accident and Emergence, London April 2010 (venue tbc)

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2009 Secrets, Royal College of Art, London
2009 One Night Stand, Accident and Emergence, The Flea Pit Gallery, London
2009 'Romance Derived' Fringe MK: Annual Painting Prize 2009, Milton Keynes
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, Madam Lillies, London
2009 Drawing(s) with Dolphins, Crimes Town Gallery, London
2008 John Moores 25, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2008 '00 Nature, Contemporary Art Projects, London
2007 My Penguin, 39, London
2007 The Great Exhibition, RCA Summer Show, Kensington Gore, London
2006 Matches and Petrol, A and D Gallery, London
2006 Taster, Hockney Gallery, London

Publications
2009 Migration, Gargeland 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 and the Nunnery, Exhibition Catalogue
2009 A-N Maga

Exhibitions John Moores 25, 20.Sep - 04.Jan.09, Walker Art Gallery, Start Your Collection 2008!, 01.Aug - 20.Sep.08, Contemporary Art Projects, '00 Nature Part 1, 10.Apr - 15.May.08, Contemporary Art Projects, Start Your Collection 2007!, 01.Aug - 30.Sep.07, Contemporary Art Projects, The show : one, 26.May - 04.Jun.06, Royal College of Art


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