The
general theme of her work is concerned with the workings of
the unconscious. How the often obscure content of dreams/fiction
become manifest through the creative process.
She is particularly
interested in childhood themes and fairy tales, which offer
endless material for symbolic play and the projection of unconscious
motifs. Collage is one of the most accessible media for Louise
in this respect; along with film, painting, photography and
mixed media.
Her most recent work of the last few years illustrates an
interest in the latent power of symbols, including dream work
– both personal and collective, the child’s relation
to fairy tales
(both past and present) and the use of imagery as a way to
expressing the inaccessible.
She has recently begun a series of postcard sized works based
on a child’s eye view of the tarot; using acrylics,
doodles, pen and ink and graph paper. She is also working
on fish-eye paintings of landscapes and a film still project
set in a dolls house.
Future lines of enquiry will entail working with animation
software to make short films that have hitherto been worked
out in collage-novels. Her ongoing inspirations include fairy
tales, the use of dolls as models, Jungian psychology, Paula
Rego, Loretta Lux, Roman Polanski and David Lynch.
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