Louise K. Wilson
Biography
Louise K Wilson is a British artist, born in 1965; she studied Fine Art at the University of Northumbria (graduating in 1987) and Studio Arts (Open Media) at Concordia University in Montreal where she completed a MFA in March 1996.
She has exhibited widely in Europe and North America, most recently in Memory and Forgetting at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle (2003); Open Plan at Leeds City Art Gallery (2002); East of Eden, Spacex Gallery, Exeter (2001); Space Camp, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada, (2000); Dreams in the Void, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, (2000) and Spectacular Bodies, Hayward Gallery (2000). She has undertaken many artist residencies and commissions and produced site-specific mixed media pieces in diverse spaces including cinemas, museums, hospitals, industrial plants, and sculptures parks as well as in art galleries. Her curatorial project Flock (an exhibition of contemporary artworks and films which explores the relationship between humans and wild birds) opened at Spacex Gallery, Exeter in February 2003. It will tour to the Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne in May 2003.
She has presented papers at a number of conferences including ArtSci2002: new dimensions in collaboration an international symposium at the American Museum of Natural History and the CUNY Graduate Center, New York; Consciousness Reframed: art, technology and consciousness, (CAiiA-STAR); the College Arts Conference in New York and Illicit Contrabands: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art at MOMA, Oxford. Her writings have been published in Parachute, Public, Angelaki and Electronic Culture amongst other publications. She has a commissioned essay in the forthcoming Arts Council England's book Private Views (Serpents Tail, 2003)