Peripheral ARTeries
Louise Winter
Louise Winter (United Kingdom) an artist’s statement
For my work I’m interested in questioning the fixed identities of objects and materials so they defy usual definitions and expectations, or, as the artist Tom Friedman has said, ‘Testing what matter is by allowing it not to be’. Central to my practice are ideas of displacement: is the location of material central to its definition so that if it is displaced from its ‘real’ context can it still be regarded as the same object, where then does it exist, if at all? I am interested in how the re-assembling of such material or found objects can start to question the boundaries of the real by creating a tension between the literal and abstract readings of these objects as signifiers. My practice is investigative in its nature and form, moving between object, process, event and performance. I don’t ‘create’ objects but work with already existing matter to collapse the distance between art and the mundane, exploring the poetic and often absurd potential of the everyday. Bibliography In 2011 Louise graduated with an MA in Fine Art with Distinction and has since exhibited regularly across the UK, including London and held a solo exhibition in Leeds last year. Louise is also currently one of six artists selected nationally for an exhibition and essay on the use of rubbish in contemporary art practice www.axisweb.org/curated-selection/rubbish that explores the materials, processes and terminologies artists employ in the context of anthropological and socio-economic theories of found objects and has recently won a commission to create an installation for Gallery 333, in Exeter. In addition to her activities as an artist, Louise is also a writer for the international contemporary online art magazine ArtSelector.
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Rubbish pile and fan, detail