Lou Baker, My current practice, Oct 2019

Red is the colour of…, 2019, site responsive installation at ‘B-Wing’, Shepton Mallet Prison, Sept 21-Oct 6

IN.BRS.2019.39 (Shadow sacks over dark pool), 2019, Scott Sandford and Lou Baker, installed at ‘B-Wing’ at Shepton Mallet Prison, 21.9- 6.10

Pillars of rage, 2019, hand knitted wool, knitting needles

Nobody 3, 2014, hand knitting, installed at ‘Unravelling’, Ice House Studios, London, Oct 2016

Stitch

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts, 2018, canvas, stitch

Nobodies, 2014

Nobody 1, 2014, leather, imitation leather, used clothing, velvet, zips; stitch, print

Site responsive installations/ drawings in space

Tethering our thoughts, 2019, string, fruit nets, a site responsive, participatory installation at ‘Incendiary’, Stroud Valley Art Space, Stroud

Safety net, 2018, detail, garden netting, elastic and staples, a site responsive, participatory installation at ‘Refuge: in search of safety’, Fringe Arts Bath, May-June

Participation Interaction Social engagement

Safety net, Day 12, 2018, detail, garden netting, labels, cloth, a site responsive, participatory installation at ‘Refuge: in search of safety’, Fringe Arts Bath, May/June

Comfort/discomfort, Day 27, 2018, elastic, cloth, labels, ceramic labels, a collaboration with Gina Baum, a site responsive, participatory installation at ‘Subversive surfaces’ exhibition, Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge, June/July

Feedback cell, 2019, garden netting, labels, cloth and thread, installed at ‘B-Wing’, Shepton Mallet Prison, 21.9 - 6.10

Day 1

Day 16

Day 4

Day 6

Day 9

Day 11

Don’t wash your dirty laundry in public, 2016, used clothing, washing line, pegs, body bags

Day 16

Day 16

Day 23

Day 25

Living sculptures, 2018, with a participant, installed at ‘disquiet’, Walcot Chapel, Bath, Sept.

Living sculptures, prison series, 2019, made for ‘B-Wing’ in response to Shepton Mallet Prison, 21.9 – 6.10

Performance

I knit therefore I am, 2018 and ongoing, knitting performance,

Provocation

Shroud, 2013, hand knitted wool

Comfort/discomfort, Day 27, 2018, elastic, cloth, labels, ceramic labels, a collaboration with Gina Baum, a site responsive, participatory installation at ‘Subversive surfaces’ exhibition, Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge, June/July

All the babies I might have had, 2011, hand knitted, felted wool

The others; a self portrait, 2015, leather, imitation leather, knitting, knitted felt, felt, velvet, concrete; stitch, print

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois, pictured 1975, wearing her latex sculpture Avenza (1968–69), which became part of Confrontation (1978). Photograph: The Easton Foundation / VEGAP, Madrid

Dorothea Tanning

Dorothea Tanning, Nue couchĂŠe (Reclining Nude) 1969-70, fabric, ping-pong balls, wool, cardboard

Christian Boltanski

Christian Boltanski, No man’s land, 2010, used clothing, claw

Chiharu Shiota

Chiharu Shiota, Uncertain journey, 2019, metal frame, red wool

Transformation of materials

Part of me 3, 2018, hand knitted wool, felted

Unexpected materials

Nobody 1, 2014, detail, hair, imitation leather

Pharmacopoeia, 2018, pill packets, staples

Unexpected places

Nobody 5, 2015, installed at ‘Privy’ at The Edwardian Toilets, Bristol, Jan 2016

Unseen, 2018, site responsive installation at Walcot Chapel, Bath, red monofilament, knitting needles

Parts of me, 2018, installed at The Cells at Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge, for Subversive surfaces, June - July

Materials communicate meaning

All the babies I might have had 2, 2015, leather, imitation leather, used clothing, felted knitting, zips

Form, colour, surface and context communicate meaning

Red is the colour of‌, 2019, detail, site responsive installation at B-Wing, Shepton Mallet Prison, 21.9 -6.10

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Other 3, wearing the unwearable, 2015, imitation leather, felt, zip, stitch; performance still