About Louise's textile art practice
With a deeply empathetic approach and love of words and stories, Louise expresses lived or imagined perspectives, through her word-based textile work.
Inspired by the rich heritage of women’s work, Louise creates contemporary banners and often scales up her own handwriting to celebrate personal stories, tenderness and vulnerability.
Louise is interested in the intimate relationship we have with textiles, instinctively knowing how a fabric will feel, its weight and texture. She is particularly drawn to silk and velvet for their relationship with light.
Louise exhibits across the UK and is a member of the Collective Studio 25-26 at The NewBridge Project and NEEDLE North East Textile Artists.
Upcoming exhibition
Drawing on the museum’s local history collections and archives, the exhibition explores the little-known relationship between Wimbledon and the women’s suffrage movement.
The exhibition explores themes of courage, resistance, erasure, public voice, women’s lives, hidden stories, symbolism and colour, place, power and change.
Her Court: The Role Wimbledon Played in the Suffragette movement at Wimbledon Museum in collaboration with Young Masters, London, 2nd - 11th July 2026
The Weight of Waiting at The House of Smalls, Edinburgh, 6th March - 11th April 2026
IM(MATERIAL) at BobCat Gallery, London, 6th - 24th January 2026
The Witching Hour at Bottleworks, Newcastle upon Tyne, 11th - 16th December 2025
Blobtopia Brainrotting Wasteland at The NewBridge Project, Newcastle upon Tyne, 11th - 15th November 2025
Beneath The Veil at The House of Smalls, Edinburgh, 3rd October - 1st November 2025
We Are The Witches II We Are, Hear at The House of Smalls, Edinburgh, 1st - 30th August 2025