Louisa Fairclough |
A Rose 2017 1 x 16mm film looped (colour, silent, 9 minutes) projected onto a suspended acrylic screen, 1 x performance for a field recording pressed onto dubplate vinyl (20 minutes). Installation view by Oskar Proctor |
Louisa Fairclough lives and works in Bristol. She graduated from Slade School of Fine Art with MFA (Distinction) Fine Art Media in 2000. Using voice, light, ground and tidal water as material, her work takes the form of film loops, field recordings, performance, sound installations and drawings. In 2016 she was awarded the CMIR Arnolfini
bursary for the sculptural film Awkward Relaxed. Her essay
Sounding grief: The Severn Estuary as an emotional soundscape
co-authored with Owain Jones led to drawings and field recordings
from the Thames that were shown at
Estuary Festival (2016).
Can People See Me Swallowing showed at
Contact Film Festival, Apiary Studios (2016),
Absolute Pitch and Composition
for a Low Tide were commissioned by Whitstable
Biennale 2014, Jeannie commissioned
by Bristol New Music in 2014, Song
of Grief shown at Film
in Space, Camden Art Centre (2013), Bore
Song acquired by CAS for The Wilson (2013)
and recently shown at Rojas + Rubensteen Projects in Miami
(2017). Louisa is Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes and University of
Falmouth. She is passionate about experimental film, and co-founded BEEF in
Bristol in 2015.
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> Exhibitions at the gallery: A Song Cycle for the Ruins of a Psychiatric Unit 2017, I wish I could be a stone 2014, Ground Truth 2011, Nowhere Else But Here 2004 |
SELECTED WORKS |
FEAR LIFE DEATH HOPE |
2017 4 x 16mm projectors, 4 x film loops with optical sound suspended from meat hooks Installation view by Oskar Proctor |
I wish I could be a stone |
2014 installation photograph by Oskar Proctor |
Absolute Pitch II |
2014 installation photograph by Oskar Proctor |
Absolute Pitch II |
2014 installation photograph by Oskar Proctor |
Absolute Pitch |
2014 installation Whitstable Biennale 2014 |
Compositions for a Low Tide |
2014 performance Whitstable Biennale 2014 devised with Richard Glover and performed by Rochester Cathedral choristers |
Can People See Me Swallowing |
2014 choral film for a stairwell installation at Spike
Island 16mm film, voice and light devised with Richard Glover, singer Karen Middleton, sound production Richard Jeffrey-Gray sketchbook photograph and installation documentation by Milo Newman |
Your Vivid Imaginings |
2014 from a series of photographs of the artist’s sister’s sketchbooks, black and white, hand processed, 16 x 18cm |
Jeannie |
2014 sound installation Arnolfini Bristol two field recording monologues pressed onto vinyl and played from two turntables with headphones commissioned by PRS Bristol New Music, performed by Gloucester Cathedral Youth Choir photograph by Sam Francis |
Song of Grief |
2013 film sculpture installation at the Camden Arts Centre photogropah by Andy Keate |
Bore Song |
2011 16mm film loop with sound projected on float glass (installation detail) |
and I find you in the reeds, a trickle
coming out of a bark, a foal of a river - Alice Oswald, Dart
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