Louise is an artist-academic based in the South West.
Her creative practice includes image-making, object-making, writing, walking, and curation. This hybrid methodology attempts to come-to-know the experience of an absent other through empathic encounters with objects, images, and place. Driven by embodiment, experimentation, and feminist examination, she negotiates absences and partial knowing in response to the experience of being ‘in’ place.
Louise was born in Suffolk, studied in Leeds and Falmouth. Her AHRC-funded practice-led PhD at UAL through Falmouth University positions illustration practice as a process-driven act capable of creatively articulating phenomenologist Edith Stein’s philosophy of empathy. With this theoretical framework, her research examines how creative practice can be a methodological means of empathic engagement with people and places of the past.