Developing artistic practice that produces encounters with inspirited sites...
About Louise...
Louise is a site-specific performance and installation artist based in Tanja, NSW whose current practice responds to local and historical trauma, place making and belonging for communities and audiences, questioning how Australian cultural memory is circulated and repressed though spiritual and communal understandings of location. She was a lecturer in Art and performance (2004-2019) within the School of Communications and Creative Arts, Deakin University, Burwood. She worked with Splinters Theatre of Spectacle (1995-1998), Co-founded Culturally Innovative Arts (1997-2001) and was a founding member of the Red Cabbage Collective (2001-2010).
Major works include: TIDE Royal Park Melbourne VIC 2017 (producer and installation artist), Anthology Stirling Park ACT 2014 (producer and installation artist), Hedge-mony (Co-creator/producer-Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival), Aviary (Director-Living Museum of the West), Comfort (Designer/Installation Artist), Collapse (Co-creator/producer- Old Port of Melbourne), Retrieval (Installation Artist- National Library of Australia), June…the place does not matter (Director- The Village).
The recipient of two Australian Post-graduate Awards, she completed a Masters in Animateuring- Cross Modal Performance at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2008.
She has recently completed her practice led-PHD Out of the Ruins...Australian Sites, Inspirited Landscapes and the Social Sacred.
Major works include: TIDE Royal Park Melbourne VIC 2017 (producer and installation artist), Anthology Stirling Park ACT 2014 (producer and installation artist), Hedge-mony (Co-creator/producer-Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival), Aviary (Director-Living Museum of the West), Comfort (Designer/Installation Artist), Collapse (Co-creator/producer- Old Port of Melbourne), Retrieval (Installation Artist- National Library of Australia), June…the place does not matter (Director- The Village).
The recipient of two Australian Post-graduate Awards, she completed a Masters in Animateuring- Cross Modal Performance at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2008.
She has recently completed her practice led-PHD Out of the Ruins...Australian Sites, Inspirited Landscapes and the Social Sacred.