LOUISA CHAMBERS: 2016

Tuesday, 20 September 2016

WHAM Transition at The Manchester Art Fair

Prints and works on paper

Louisa Chambers / Grant Foster / Georgia Hayes / Paul Housley / Marie Jacotey / Cathy Lomax / Ryan Mosley / Alli Sharma / Rose Wylie

22 - 25 September 2016

Transition at The Manchester Contemporary

Private View (by invitation) - Thursday 22 September 2016 16.30 - 17.30

Opening Night - Thursday 22 September 2016 17.30 - 21.00

Public Days Friday 23 September 2016, 11.00 - 18.00

Saturday 24 September 2016, 10.00 - 18.00

Sunday 25 September 2016, 10.00 - 17.00

WHAM is a forceful collision of works on paper that resound with pop aesthetic. Incorporating comic images, everyday themes and advertisements, the WHAM prints, drawings and paintings sizzle with emotional subject matter that is often undercut by detached technique. Whether parody or social commentary, the resulting combination of flippant and sincere provocation strikes a powerful impact.

The Manchester Contemporary
Old Granada Studios St Johns
Quay Street
Manchester
M3 4PR

Louisa Chambers

Rose Wylie

Cathy Lomax

Marie Jacotey

Wish You Were Here - Interlocking Zigzag, Estuary Festival 2016, Metal

I have been commissioned to design the exterior of a beach hut, the Gallery Hut for Estuary Festival 2016 on behalf of Metal, Southend-on-Sea.

Wish You Were Here is an installation of ten brand new, cultural Beach Huts installed on the shore-end platform of Southend Pier, bringing the bowling deck platform into use for visitors to the Pier for the next 12 months.

'The starting point of Interlocking Zigzag (the commissioned Gallery Hut) was the idea of Razzle Dazzle camouflage and a reference to Norman Wilkinson’s painted designs on World War One ships. Similarly, I want the hut to dazzle the viewer through the use of the bold pattern and bright colours. The design features a zigzag pattern from a fragment of wrapping paper that I have used as a motif in recent works.'

Currently on exhibition in the Gallery Hut is Billy Childish in Print (A Survey) and continues through until Sunday 2nd October 2016. For more information about the huts please visit here

See below for images of different viewpoints of the Gallery Hut- Interlocking Zigzag on the Pier.

Sunday, 10 July 2016

BAD SIGNS/Adjustments - Closing Party Saturday 16th July, 4 - 6 pm

BAD SIGNS/adjustments

15^th May – 16^th July 2016

Closing party: Saturday 16^th July, 4-6 pm

Atkinsons' Kram Gallery, 302 Garrat Lane, Wandsworth, London SW18 4EH

'Following a public residency at the Harley Gallery in the East Midlands the collaborative trio of Louisa

Chambers, Craig Fisher and Rob Flint use Atkinsons - Kram Gallery as a project space to explore their varied interests in dazzle camouflage, hazard signage, and blurred boundaries between object and background, revelation and concealment. During their time in this space the artists will create ’adjustments’ -intervening to alter each other's installation in ways that interrupt and redirect the points of focus in this very public space. BAD SIGNS/adjustments will be present during May and June. Adjustments will be made unannounced throughout this time.’

See below for images of Craig Fisher’s intervention/adjustments in the space.

Monday, 27 June 2016

Spectrum, PS Mirabel, Manchester

I am pleased to announce that my painting Inverse (2016, gouache on board, 30 x 23 cm) has been selected for Spectrum an open competition at PS Mirabel in Manchester.

This year’s art prize features artworks that have colour in their final appearance. The open submission was selected by Mark Doyle (Touchstones Gallery Curator and Collections Manager), Lisa Denyer (Artist and 2015 Winner), Magnus Quaife (Artist and Lecturer at MMU) and Robert Miller (Contemporary Art Collector).

The opening event is Friday 1st July, 6pm – 9pm and the show runs until 13th August 2016.

PS Mirabel is an artist run project and exhibition space in the centre of Manchester.

Open every Saturday 11am to 5 pm and by appointment.

Mirabel Studios, 14/20 Mirabel Street

Manchester. M3 1PJ

Monday, 30 May 2016

BAD SIGNS/ adjustments

BAD SIGNS/adjustments

15^th May – 16^th July 2016

Below are images recording the collaborative process that both Rob Flint and I participated together in the space last week. Both Rob and Craig Fisher will be intervening and making further ‘adjustments’ at Kram Gallery in the very near future. I will be posting more images of these developments on this page when it happens.

BAD SIGNS/adjustments, KRAM Gallery, London

BAD SIGNS/adjustments

15^th May – 16^th July 2016

Following a public residency at the Harley Gallery in the East Midlands the collaborative trio of Louisa Chambers, Craig Fisher and Rob Flint use Atkinsons - Kram Gallery as a project space to explore their varied interests in dazzle camouflage, hazard signage, and blurred boundaries between object and background, revelation and concealment. During their time in this space the artists will create ’adjustments’ -intervening to alter each other's installation in ways that interrupt and redirect the points of focus in this very public space. BAD SIGNS/adjustments will be present during May and June. Adjustments will be made unannounced throughout this time. There will be a closing party on Saturday 16^th July. More details to follow shortly.

Atkinsons' Kram Gallery, 302 Garrat Lane, Wandsworth, London SW18 4EH

For more information about the space please visit the website here

Monday, 22 February 2016

Razzle: All that Jazz - The Harley Gallery, Wellbeck, Nottinghamshire

Over the last couple of weeks I have participated in a collaborative exhibition Razzle: All that Jazz at The Harley Gallery in Wellbeck, Workshop with artists Craig Fisher and Rob Flint. The exhibition is a two part show entitled ‘If a pair is two, what is three?’ and was initiated by artist run space Primary in Nottingham.

“This collaborative exhibition takes as its starting point ‘Dazzle Camouflage’, with the three artists each employing pattern as a form of pictorial disruption, interruption and spatial collapse. Initially each artist will work site-specifically by making work directly on the gallery walls. Over the duration of the exhibition they will develop work by responding to the space and each other; artworks will butt up against each other, they may be shown on top of each other making individual practices both indistinguishable and jarring. Works within the exhibition will be concealed within the overall dazzle effect of the installation producing interesting juxtapositions and correlations.”

Below are images recording the collaborative process.

The exhibition continues until Sunday 28th February and there is going to be a closing event with discussion and performance from 2-4 pm (refreshments provided).