Louisa Chambers

Details

Birthday: 1983
Url: http://www.louisachambers.net
Bornin: Northampton, UK
Education: Institute of Education, UCL
Education: Royal College of Art, London
Education: UCA, Farnham
Exhibitions: Twice as Nice
Exhibitions: Jackson's Art Prize
Exhibitions: Trancendence
Exhibitions: Manuscript - Letter Home
Exhibitions: Veneer
Exhibitions: Flag Commission
Exhibitions: Line and Fold
Exhibitions: Summer Auction
Exhibitions: Figure and Form
Exhibitions: Precision of Thought
Exhibitions: Magical Geometry
Exhibitions: Razzle Dazzle
Exhibitions: New Room
Exhibitions: Paper Cuts
Exhibitions: Only Yours Dear
Exhibitions: Drawn for Something Else
Exhibitions: Wham
Exhibitions: Wish You Were Here
Exhibitions: BAD SIGNS/Adjustments
Exhibitions: Now For Tomorrow II
Exhibitions: Lift
Exhibitions: Razzle: All that Jazz - If a Pair is two, what is three
Exhibitions: In the Paravent - If a Pair is two, what is three?
Exhibitions: Nottingham Caslte Open 2015
Exhibitions: Geometry: Wonky or Otherwise
Exhibitions: Creekside Open 2015
Exhibitions: Autocatalytic Future Games
Exhibitions: In Miniature
Exhibitions: Harlequin
Exhibitions: 50 50 50
Exhibitions: Salon 6
Exhibitions: Wirksworth Festival
Exhibitions: Pareidolia
Exhibitions: Water Colour Revolution
Exhibitions: The Summer Lodge
Exhibitions: About Painting
Exhibitions: Paint Like You Mean It
Exhibitions: RCA Secret
Exhibitions: First Come First Served
Exhibitions: Crash Open
Exhibitions: Stereoscope
Exhibitions: Rotation
Exhibitions: Discernible
Exhibitions: Needle's Eye
Exhibitions: Flatland
Exhibitions: Dangerous Curves Ahead
Exhibitions: Equinox
Exhibitions: Contemporary Perspectives on Water Colour
Exhibitions: Drawn Together
Exhibitions: Melt
Exhibitions: Rhizomatic
Exhibitions: Pistols and Pollinators
Exhibitions: Fault Line
Exhibitions: Skyscrapers under the Sea
Exhibitions: Drawing(s) with Dolphins
Exhibitions: John Moores 25
Residency: Repton School, Derby
Residency: Room 13, Beatrice Tate School, London
Teaching: Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
Teaching: Loughborough University
Teaching: Nottingham University
Teaching: University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
Teaching: Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff University

Description

Louisa Chambers has been developing a series of works that incorporates a simple folded form (wrapping, found or architectural paper). The folded shapes are transfigured at speed, manipulated into temporary objects (three dimensional) and recorded from observation into a flat two-dimensional space (painting). Beginning as inanimate objects and through the process of painting; they are transformed into anthropomorphic beings situated in imagined domestic settings or behind patterned backdrops. Geometric patterns and coloured shapes are suspended behind the objects, or begin to merge - suggesting other spaces, windows, and portals beyond. The scenes and shapes that feature in the work tilt back and forth between abstraction and figuration. The transient quality of medium mirrors that of the temporal nature of the folded paper shapes that are recorded in the paintings. The forms can be simply squashed down and reconstructed again. These works are part of an on-going research into depiction and visual perception on two and three-dimensional surface.