Art on a Postcard x War Child UK 2024 Part II

About
Louisa Chambers graduated from an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2007. She is a Resident Artist at Primary, Nottingham and is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. She lives and works in Nottingham, UK.

Education
2012 PGCE (Post Compulsory Education), Institute of Education, UCL
2007 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London
2005 BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class Honours), UCA, Farnham
2002 BTEC Diploma in Art and Design: (Distinction), UCA, Farnham

Select Exhibitions/Awards
She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, worked on various public site-specific commissions. Selected exhibitions include: Maquette, No Show Space (London 2022-23), Telling Tales, Platform Projects 2022, Athens, (Greece 2022), Nothing Has Changed, Everything Has Changed, Beep Painting Biennial 2022 (Swansea 2022), Colour-flex, Terrace Gallery, (London 2022), Thru’ TheseArchitects Eyes, PAPER Gallery at Manchester Contemporary (Manchester 2021), Criss-Cross, Angear Visitor Centre, Lakeside Arts Centre (Solo-Nottingham, 2021), Enough is Definitely Enough (touring exhibition), Pineapple Black (Middlesbrough, 2020) and Manuscript–Letter Home, China Academy of Arts Museum, (Hangzhou, China 2018-on going travelling exhibition throughout China 2018-19).

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
Imagined objects, repeated patterned motifs, architectural structures, hats and proposals for wearable /non-functional clothing all feature in this new series of paintings and drawings by Louisa Chambers.Applying a playful approach when constructing images, sources derive from memories of buildings, patterns and ‘things’ encountered on daily walks made locally or further afield. Shapes and constructions begin from a fixed vantage point, a frontal view with shapes growing into anthropomorphic beings. These depicted forms make reference to personal narratives about subjects responding to the everyday, boredom, routine and domestic life that acknowledges a humorous and idiosyncratic vision.


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