Louisa Chambers
Louisa Chambers’ current practice begins in the everyday - suburbia, boredom, routine and overlooked wild spaces at the edges of urban environments. Drawing from both observation and memory, she explores shifting relationships with self, space and environment through a childlike lens of curiosity and unease. Figures emerge in these imagined spaces, peeping, morphing, watching and alongside a recurring bird-like creature. The character can be deemed an alter ego born from her experience of matrescence, the transformation of becoming a mother. Recently, her practice has embraced intuitive mark-making within drawing and painting processes, allowing imagined worlds to surface such as hybrid spaces between the familiar and the fantastical. Ultimately, her work reframes the mundane into something strange and otherworldly.
She has exhibited both nationally, internationally and worked on public site-specific commissions.
Selected exhibitions include: Grounded, Barber Lopes (London, 2026), Drawing Closer, Royal Drawing School (London, 2026), Primates, Manchester Contemporary 2025, (Manchester, 2025), Flat Volume, APT Gallery (London, 2025), Flat, Primary (Nottingham, 2025), Objects, Axel Obiger (Berlin, 2023), Maquette, No Show Space (London, 2023), Telling Tales, Platform Projects, Athens (Greece, 2022), Thru’ These Architects Eyes, PAPER Gallery, Manchester Contemporary 2021, Criss-Cross, Angear Visitor Centre, Lakeside Arts Centre (Solo - Nottingham, 2021), Enough is Definitely Enough, Pineapple Black (Middlesbrough, 2020) and Manuscript – Letter Home, CAA Arts Museum, Hangzhou (China, 2018-2019).
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