I am a visual artist based in Aotearoa New Zealand working with movement, earth pigments, photography and video in an emergent and spontaneous way. Recently I have been working with the herbal medicine concept of “simples” – using one plant at a time. I find this approach generates a kind of spaciousness and simplicity that I personally had been longing for in my life and my practice. Living in Aotearoa New Zealand for the last 18 years I am working with daily awareness of the impacts of colonisation, and I am also grateful to be living in the first country in the world to grant legal personhood to wild places – rivers, mountains and landscapes. Both of these inform the way I work. I have recently returned to the UK for a while and am researching the Lincolnshire Fenlands where I grew up. I find it a liminal and brooding landscape, where the history and relationship between human beings and the drained landscape is complex and ever-changing. As part of this research I have been working with Woad, an ancient plant dye/pigment that used to be grown in this area.
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| email: | louisachase@gmail.com |
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