25 October – 6 December
2013
For the next exhibition
at Mrs Rick’s Cupboard, Louisa Chambers envisages the space functioning as an
optical device similar to a Stereoscope viewer.
A stereoscope is a device
for viewing two separate images that have been taken from a slightly different
viewpoint corresponding to the spacing of the eyes. When observing the images
through the device, the two dimensional images merge together to become a
single three dimensional scene. Chambers’ recent paintings respond to on-going
research into depiction and visual perception on two dimensional surfaces, concentrating
on the mediums of drawing, collage and painting.
Multiple dimensions and
perspectives that feature in the paintings are explored through the materiality
of paint and the repetition of geometric motifs which are floating ambiguously
in space. These shapes and silhouettes have been assembled in the artworks
into anthropomorphic forms that teeter between abstraction and figuration.
Chambers’ paintings present alternative universes where impossible science
fiction/architectural structures comment on conflicts between our inner dream
worlds and the technological robotic control on our everyday lives.
Louisa Chambers graduated
with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2005-2007) and
a BA (Hons) Fine Art with first class honours at the University for
the Creative Arts, Farnham (2002-2005).
Selected recent
exhibitions include: Rotation, New Court Gallery, Repton, Derbyshire (Solo-
2013) Discernible, Zeitgeist Arts Projects, London (2013) Flatland,
Blyth Gallery, London (2012) Needle’s Eye, BayArt Gallery,
Cardiff and Transition Gallery, London (2012). Chambers was a
finalist in the Zeitgeist Open 2012, selected in 2010 and 2009 for the Salon
Art Prize, Matt Roberts Art and John Moores 25 at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
in 2008. She is currently Artist-in-Residence at Repton School, Derbyshire.
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