Lift
Painting by Louisa
Chambers
16th January
to 16th February 2016
Lift is a painting from an ongoing series of works by the artist Louisa
Chambers that incorporates a simple paper folded form. Focusing on how a folded
shape can be transfigured at speed from a temporary structure (three
dimensional) into a flat two dimensional space (painting and drawing). Each
form can be squashed again, folded, opened, reconfigured and recorded. Coloured
patterned tessellations that are on the surface of the paper suggest other
spaces, angles and areas of illusion. She is interested in how the marked
painted surface can be perceived as a spatial element and how this can interact
with figures that are situated in the foreground in a painting. These depicted
idiosyncratic shapes and scenes often have been assembled in the artwork to
make anthropomorphic forms teetering between abstraction and figuration.
Appropriated references derive from everyday sources,
which can be from observation or images that she have retrieved from the
internet. This produces juxtaposition between the handmade aesthetic of
painting contrasting the instant accessibility of the digital image. Often
these invented forms make reference to science fiction, architectonics and
landscapes, presenting alternative visual and virtual worlds where structures
govern out society and technology rules.
Louisa graduated with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art and
a BA in Fine Art at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. She has
exhibited her work throughout the UK and has been a finalist in competitions
such as Nottingham Castle Open 2015, Nottingham Castle Museum (Purchase Prize Winner, Nottingham
2015), Creekside Open, APT Gallery (London 2015), Zeitgeist Open (London
2012) and John Moores 25 at the Walker Art Gallery in (Liverpool 2008).
Upcoming exhibitions include:
If a pair is two, what is three? Paravent and Razzle: All that Jazz, The
Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire, Now for Tomorrow II, Nottingham Castle Museum (Nottingham 2016)
About London Arts Board
The London Arts Board is a dis-used municipal notice board on the corner
of Peckham Road and Vestry Road, Camberwell.
It is now a gallery dedicated to giving emerging artists the chance to
have a solo exhibition in London.
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