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 positioned illustration practice as a process-driven act capable of creatively articulating phenomenologist Edith Stein’s philosophy of empathy. With this theoretical framework, her research examined how creative practice can be a methodological means of empathic engagement with people and places of the past.
Louise is a senior lecturer of cultural studies at Falmouth University. She previously taught on several illustration and design undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University of Plymouth.
Louise is one half of Mor Art Group, a dynamic online art space offering live creative workshops, seminars, and collaboration - inspired by landscape and place.
Enquiries about visiting lecturer work and doctoral supervision are welcome.