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. |
Statement
Louise Manifold works conceptually with film, photography, sculpture and text. Fascinated by the power of stories and the creation of myth her multi disciplinary practice reflects upon the nature and expectation of narrative as a means to translate experiences that confront our perception of self and the body in relation to the other.
Referencing Russian formalism traditions on cinematic estrangement and theatricality as departure points, she generates dreamlike scenarios that suggest a sense of disconnection from the lived world in favor of a private real.
The private realties that Manifold presents often hold an aesthetics that is somewhere between dystopian landscapes and surrealist theatre, and act as a means in which to unite personal experience with symbols and environments that invites a curiosity of the other.
Overarching interest to many of her ideas is a preoccupation with the sensory qualities of language,and how it is felt and externalised in the language of psychosomatic experiences,irrational beliefs and phenomenon that blur the lines between fiction and reality.
Using processes such as deconstructed pros, spoken monolog, and textual interventions, Manifold attempts seek out a visuality within these literary forms to challenge both the limits and potential of language to shape and fix our sense of the world.
One of the distinctive elements in her work is her engagement with outmoded ideas and objects that she considers to hold a potential to regenerate legend in the present.Manifold is attracted to objects and collections that hold particular ideologies linked to Enlightenment Rationalism that may, in some way act as a point in which to echo a return to the supernatural systems they preceded.
Using small interventions to both compromise and embellish Manifold resuscitates esoteric objects so to render them visible on a new level and contexts for the viewer to consume, and contribute to wider cultural legacies.
Collaboration with other disciplines has always been central to her creative process,much of Manifold's interest stems from exploring converging relationships between time based art, documentary practices and low budget cinema, seeing her work, and particularly her work in moving image as a means to investigate boundaries of authorship as both fictional and real.
Through working with a variety of practitioners and approaches as a means to recast these shifting roles, Manifold seeks to illuminate universal notions on how we fabricate what we call reality.
Referencing Russian formalism traditions on cinematic estrangement and theatricality as departure points, she generates dreamlike scenarios that suggest a sense of disconnection from the lived world in favor of a private real.
The private realties that Manifold presents often hold an aesthetics that is somewhere between dystopian landscapes and surrealist theatre, and act as a means in which to unite personal experience with symbols and environments that invites a curiosity of the other.
Overarching interest to many of her ideas is a preoccupation with the sensory qualities of language,and how it is felt and externalised in the language of psychosomatic experiences,irrational beliefs and phenomenon that blur the lines between fiction and reality.
Using processes such as deconstructed pros, spoken monolog, and textual interventions, Manifold attempts seek out a visuality within these literary forms to challenge both the limits and potential of language to shape and fix our sense of the world.
One of the distinctive elements in her work is her engagement with outmoded ideas and objects that she considers to hold a potential to regenerate legend in the present.Manifold is attracted to objects and collections that hold particular ideologies linked to Enlightenment Rationalism that may, in some way act as a point in which to echo a return to the supernatural systems they preceded.
Using small interventions to both compromise and embellish Manifold resuscitates esoteric objects so to render them visible on a new level and contexts for the viewer to consume, and contribute to wider cultural legacies.
Collaboration with other disciplines has always been central to her creative process,much of Manifold's interest stems from exploring converging relationships between time based art, documentary practices and low budget cinema, seeing her work, and particularly her work in moving image as a means to investigate boundaries of authorship as both fictional and real.
Through working with a variety of practitioners and approaches as a means to recast these shifting roles, Manifold seeks to illuminate universal notions on how we fabricate what we call reality.
