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Louise Winter

Newcastle/Ljubljana
Artist, writer, curator
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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? 

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 Newcastle, UK/Lljubljana, 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. In 2016 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 international group exhibition KAOS at Layerjeva Hiša and the International Biennale of Installation and Sculpture-Multiplicity and Repetition, IAVPOA Art.

Last year she was selected for the show 'Kineticne Keramike' curated by Kristina Rutar and completed an artist residency at Hiša na Hribu. She also curated, and took part in, the group exhibiton 'Weird Sisters' at Galerija Dika, Kamnik, which brought together six leading contemporary female artists living and working in Slovenia.

 

 

 

'Untitled'. gravel stones, string, aluminium mesh, 2023

Weird Sisters, Galerija Dika, Kamnik

'Untitled', gravel stones, fishing wire, metal wire, wood

Kvadrat, Kineticne Keramike

'Untitled' Gravel stones, fishing wire and tape, site-specific installation, 2022

KAOS Festival, Layerjeva Hisa, 'Path to Oblivion', 2022

Path to Oblivion

Pouring Cans Projection, Artistic Encounter, The Great North Museum: Hancock

Reeds

Les Boites

Pop Goes the Weasel, Leazes Park Bandstand, Newcastle

Moving on Up, Moving on Out, The Newbridge Project (group exhibition)

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