Louisa Chase
Louisa Chase is a British multi-disciplinary artist with walking and outdoor movement practice as the foundation of all her work.
In 2004 Louisa emigrated to Aotearoa (New Zealand) and lived there for 18 years, returning to the UK in 2022. She is based in rural Lincolnshire.
Working across disciplines including walking, writing, ritual, movement, photography, foraging for natural materials and painting with handmade plant and earth paints, she works intentionally with duration, cycles and the many layers of the local.
Her work is anti-spectacle, slow, quiet, and draws on practices of witnessing and deep listening. She conducts embodied inquiry into what she terms 'ancestral portals to knowing' - ways of being in the world that were once essential for survival - walking, working with plants as allies and medicine, silence, rest, communion with land, the more-than-human, and natural cycles.
In 2023/24 Louisa was the recipient of an Arts Council England DYCP grant for her project "Geographies of Inclusion: Mapping Ways to Integrate Sustainable Creative Practice, Indigenous Knowledge, and Health." She has exhibited in Aotearoa and the UK, and her essays have been published by The Dark Mountain Project and Wort Journal.
In 2004 Louisa emigrated to Aotearoa (New Zealand) and lived there for 18 years, returning to the UK in 2022. She is based in rural Lincolnshire.
Working across disciplines including walking, writing, ritual, movement, photography, foraging for natural materials and painting with handmade plant and earth paints, she works intentionally with duration, cycles and the many layers of the local.
Her work is anti-spectacle, slow, quiet, and draws on practices of witnessing and deep listening. She conducts embodied inquiry into what she terms 'ancestral portals to knowing' - ways of being in the world that were once essential for survival - walking, working with plants as allies and medicine, silence, rest, communion with land, the more-than-human, and natural cycles.
In 2023/24 Louisa was the recipient of an Arts Council England DYCP grant for her project "Geographies of Inclusion: Mapping Ways to Integrate Sustainable Creative Practice, Indigenous Knowledge, and Health." She has exhibited in Aotearoa and the UK, and her essays have been published by The Dark Mountain Project and Wort Journal.