Bio
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Born in Galway Ireland, Louise graduated from Central St Martins Collage London and the Galway/Mayo Institute of Technology. She has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland and internationally in exhibitions at ISCP, New York. Proximal Distances Chicago, Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, Red House Arts Centre Syracuse New York, Candid Arts Centre, London. 411 Galleries, China. She has been awarded residencies with Galway City Council (2007) Tyrone Guthrie, ( 2008) SIM Iceland ( 2008) ISCP New York ( 2010/11) The Botin Foundation,Spain.( 2013) The Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin, Ireland( 2014/15). Louise has been the recipient of awards from The Arts Council of Ireland, Culture Ireland, and local authorities.In 2009 she was one of the four artists short-listed nominated for Allied Irish Bank Art prize for young artists of promise. Recent group shows and projects include: Winter Papers ( Edited by Kevin Barry and Olivia Smith, ( 2016) Berlin Open Studios (2016), Becoming: the adventures of Growing up Baboro international festival for children (2016) Wild-Screen ( 2015) Connemara, and Trauma at the Science Gallery, Dublin ( 2015). Louise is currently on residency with Glaguair artist residency program Berlin,Up and coming projects include Aerial Sparks! As part of Galway European Capital of Culture program for 2020. |
LLouise Manifold works conceptually with lens based media, collage, sculpture and text. Fascinated by the power of stories and the creation of myth her multi disciplinary practice explores our perception of self and the body in relation to the other.
In her work she uses different media to reactivate often forgotten stories and private experience, rendering them visible for the viewer to consume, and contribute to wider cultural legacies.
Referencing ideas on cinematic estrangement, scenography, and concepts on defamilurisation to explore narrative of disconnection from the lived world, in favor of the creation of a private real.
Manifold represents this as visually saturated metaphors for film, video and installation that blur the lines between fact and fiction.
Much of her work relates to the sensory qualities of language, in which she attempts to connect with language as a visual form.
Manifold is interested in language used to explore spaces of in between and uncertainty, many of her works dissecting found narratives on psychosomatic experiences, irrational beliefs and phenomenon in which interior thought becomes externalised.
One of the distinctive elements in her work is her engagement with outmoded ideas and objects that she considers to hold a potential to reactivate the past in the present.
Using small interventions to compromise and embellish, she explores how objects may be used to communicate in film and to explore the power of display and the paradox between text, title and object.
Manifold work also involves frequent collaborations with other discipline such as science and literature, to grow beyond self-contained endeavor into wider contexts and understanding.
In her work she uses different media to reactivate often forgotten stories and private experience, rendering them visible for the viewer to consume, and contribute to wider cultural legacies.
Referencing ideas on cinematic estrangement, scenography, and concepts on defamilurisation to explore narrative of disconnection from the lived world, in favor of the creation of a private real.
Manifold represents this as visually saturated metaphors for film, video and installation that blur the lines between fact and fiction.
Much of her work relates to the sensory qualities of language, in which she attempts to connect with language as a visual form.
Manifold is interested in language used to explore spaces of in between and uncertainty, many of her works dissecting found narratives on psychosomatic experiences, irrational beliefs and phenomenon in which interior thought becomes externalised.
One of the distinctive elements in her work is her engagement with outmoded ideas and objects that she considers to hold a potential to reactivate the past in the present.
Using small interventions to compromise and embellish, she explores how objects may be used to communicate in film and to explore the power of display and the paradox between text, title and object.
Manifold work also involves frequent collaborations with other discipline such as science and literature, to grow beyond self-contained endeavor into wider contexts and understanding.