Developing artistic practice that produces encounters with inspirited sites...
About Louise...
Louise is an interdisciplinary artist, community arts worker and educator who dynamically responds to place making and belonging for communities and audiences. Her community cultural development practice is concerned with creative actions in situ that reveal the stories, hidden strengths and resources of a given place in order to foster deep connections between artists of all disciplines and the multifaceted communities in which they live and work. Lecturer in Art and Performance (2004-2019) Deakin University; Company Member of Splinters Theatre of Spectacle (1992-1999); Red Cabbage Collective (2001-2010); In 2019, she moved to Yuin Country, Tanja and established Navigate Arts, an independent creative enterprise located at the Old Tanja Church, studios and surrounds as a hub for artists, run by artists www.navigatearts.com
Since moving to the Bega Valley Shire, as well as programming her independent venue, Louise has produced the large-scale community recovery project, the Regeneration Roadtriphttps://www.regenerationroadtrip.com.au; worked as the project manager for the Bermagui Create and Make Crew for the BVSC, delivering three major community events including Parklight at Littleton Gardens (under her creative direction).
Louise has recently been engaged with RealArtWorks (an inclusive ‘post-disability’ company based in Lismore) working as installation artist and providing dramaturgy on three major site-specific projects with this company; The Trail of Light and Sound for the Bermagui Sculpture Festival in March 2019, the unUsual Festival in Lismore in November 2019 and Artstate Wagga Wagga in 2020. In 2021, Four Winds contracted Navigate Arts to produce the live music program for Sculpture Bermagui and in 2022 Morris was commissioned by Lindy Hume to write and direct the final film in the Homestretch series, Down by the Water. Navigate Arts also produced the site-specific screening of the Homestretch film project for the 2022 Four Winds Festival.
www.navigatearts.com
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