Welcome

Louisa Chase is a British artist and ecosomatic researcher.  She emigrated to Aotearoa (New Zealand) in 2004 and lived there for 18 years, returning to the UK in 2022.  She is currently based in rural North Lincolnshire with a studio at The Ropewalk in Barton upon Humber.

​​Working across disciplines including walking, writing, ritual, movement, foraging for natural materials, and photography and video, she works intentionally with duration and cycles.  Her work is anti-spectacle, slow, quiet, and draws on practices  of witnessing and deep listening​, grounded in embodied research into ancestral portals to knowing.  

She foregrounds the knowledge of experts-through-experience and the intelligences of the more-than-human, and draws from traditional herbal medicine and plant connection practices.

​ Louisa experiences the body-mind as a subtle receiver, a kind of antenna and fractal of the whole, picking up the visible and invisible, the tangible and intangible.

 She lives, works and creates in a seasonal and cyclic way and sees no separation between creative practice and life. 


CURRENT AND Recent projects

LIBATIONS: TO POUR AS AN OFFERING. A 30-day work exploring place, ritual, folk tradition, counter-mapping and water-health. July/August 2024.

HARI Hull Artist Research Initiative Summer Season Inaugural Response Micro-residency. Aug 2024.

 

Workshops and Collaborations

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Past collaborations and workshops are listed in CV.

 

Writing

Summer 2024

Published article in Wort Journal

In Collaboration with Woad: An Artist's Year of Listening with Isatis tinctoria