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Louise Ashcroft

Date of birth 18.Mar.83
Country of residence United Kingdom
Contact ashcroftlouise@googlemail.com www.louiseashcroft.info

Louise Ashcroft’s playful interventions challenge the identity of the sites she inhabits. Creating animation, installation and performance works, Ashcroft experiments in combining truth and fiction, interlinking historical, cultural and geographical fact and theory with her own fantastical accounts. Her work demonstrates a process of research, which has been manipulated to disorientate the audience, emphasising the importance of context as an agent of experience and interpretation.

Ashcroft’s recent exhibitions include a series of warehouse shows with London's Departure Gallery, Mythical Lyrical at Sueli Turner Gallery in East London and Ouroboros, a two-person show with Floss Cobb at Finspace, Finsbury Park. Louise has exhibited widely in group shows and has had solo shows in the crypt of Hawksmoor’s iconic Christ Church Spitalfields and with the site-specific arts organisation Projection at Godstow Nunnery ruins, Oxfordshire.

Group Exhibitions:

Trident Way 2: The Southall Project, Departure Gallery. London. December 2009.

Mythical Lyrical, Sueli Turner Gallery, London. November 2009-January 2010..

Trident Way, Departure Gallery, London. October 2009.

Ouroboros, New work by Louise Ashcroft and Floss Cobb at Finspace, Finfuture Ltd, London, August 2009.

Boeing Way, a two month long residency and exhibition, organized by Departure Gallery, in a 32,000sq ft warehouse in Southall, London, March-April 2009.

House, a site-specific installation, made in collaboration with Lucie Galand, for Brasenose College Arts Festival, May 2008.

Wrecking Ball, an exhibition of work by Damien Hirst’s assistants, December 2007

Re-Formation, Christ Church Spitalfields, London, March-April 2007.

Moroccan Dream, The 20th Century Theatre, Portobello Road, London. 2004.

Atomic Art Bomb, a major public exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, 2004.

Seedy Rushes, a site-specific exhibition in Oxford Botanical Gardens, 2003.

The Turl Street Arts Festival, Jesus College Oxford. 2003.

Oxford/ Lyon at BF15 Gallery, Place de la Terrace, Lyon, France, 2002.


Solo Exhibitions

Tunnel, Projects at Christ Church, Christ Church Spitalfields, London, 2005.

Hay House, with site-specific art organization Projection at Godstow Nunnery ruins, Oxfordshire, 2004.

Tele-Spectators at The Dolphin Gallery, Oxford, 2002.

Education:

BFA Fine Art (1st), The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University.

MA (Merit) Cultural and Critical Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Exhibitions Re-Formation, 31.Mar - 07.Apr.07, Christ Church Spitalfields


www.louiseashcroft.info

 

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