About
Chelsea School of Art Fine Art and Sculpture graduate, Louise Garman, is a working, exhibiting and selling artist who also does an array of art workshops and art talks in a variety of settings, from cruise ships to community spaces.
With further training at The Royal Academy and Slade School of Art in London, for her own practise, Louise creates uncompromising, experimental multi-media images with the volume tuned up to the unreal. Suffused with dreams of beauty and decay, natural and man-made, the scenes are set via drawings, video, installation, silkscreens, photographs, cyanotype and collage.
Louise, a studio holder at neo:artists in Greater Manchester, has exhibited all over Europe and the UK, including for the Royal Society of Women Artists at The Mall Galleries, London, the GM Arts Prize in Manchester, and in Stockholm, Oviedo and Paris. Louise's latest solo show, Human Nature, was a pop-up forest exhibition featuring huge fabrics depicting swirling off-kilter landscapes.
Louise also takes on commercial projects, which have recently included trade union banners, large outdoor murals and commissioned canvases.
Exhibitions & Projects
Louise Garman artworks show lights up Philips Park Forest…“The forest has been turned into an arboreal gallery, as visitors follow ribbon-lined paths through the visual thinking of the artist… The Circle of Hangings features five brightly coloured fabrics hanging on lines like nature’s angst-ridden washing. Look closely, and they’re techno-coloured landscapes, with winding roads going through hills, wind turbines, pylons and criss-cross aeroplane vapour trails slashing the scene. Words loom large everywhere, with posters stamped Secret Places, Discarded, Abandoned nailed to the trees. But it is the hangings that stand out, each where they shouldn’t really be, shining dreamy, artistic light on the vital theme…Human Nature…in this show, symbolism is everywhere…”
burynewroad.org
Almost Nothing, But Something… “OMG! On the floor is a skeleton of a rams’ head, an empty canister of ‘hippy crack’, a business card from a massage parlour…a bit of discarded ‘Please Do Not Cross’ tape…all part of an eye-popping installation by Louise Garman of found objects from her walks in the beautiful British countryside… Welcome to ‘Corduroy Part 11’, a collaborative exhibition of artists from Studio 44 in Stockholm and neo:artists from Greater Manchester, all creatively expressing answers to the question ‘What does it mean to live in a post-industrial northern city, in this tumultuous times’…”
Salford Star