Louise K Wilson is a visual artist who makes installations, live works, sound works and single channel videos. Processes of research are central to her practice and she frequently involves the participation of individuals from industry, museums, medicine and the scientific community in the making of work. Previous associations have included the Montreal Neurological Institute, the Science Museum, the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training facility in Moscow, the RSPB and the Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service.
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She has exhibited widely in North America and Europe. Recent exhibitions include Topophobia (Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool and Spacex Gallery, Exeter 2012); Re-sounding Falkland on the Falkland Estate (Scotland 2010, made with David Chapman), I Hear Too: Live (York Minster 2009), Composure (Impressions Gallery, Bradford 2008), Post-Cinema (RMIT Project Space, Melbourne 2007); Sonic Arts Network Expo (Plymouth 2007) and the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2006). In 2006 she was awarded a NESTA Fellowship. Her published writing includes an interview with Paul Virilio (CTHEORY, 1994); a commissioned essay for ‘Private Views: Artists Working Today’ (Serpents Tail, 2004); artist pages for 'Zero Gravity - A Cultural Users Guide' (Arts Catalyst, Cornerhouse books 2005), and book chapters for 'A Fearsome Heritage: Diverse Legacies of the Cold War' (Left Coast Press, 2007) and 'Contemporary Archaeologies: Excavating Now' (Peter Lang, 2009).
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Her current research uses the medium of sound to ask philosophical and material questions about the spatio-temporal physicality of certain sites and our perceptions of them. She has traveled to numerous (military and scientific) sites including nuclear submarines, US listening stations, university halls, marine research environments, rocket launch sites and disused RAF bases in pursuit of the acoustics of resonant spaces. She has explored the ways in which technologies of the audible create new ways of engaging with the lost traces of institutional places.
Louise K Wilson lives in West Yorkshire.
Education
2004-12 PhD Fine Art, University of Derby
1993-96 MFA Studio Arts (Open Media) Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1987 BA Hons (1st Class) Fine Art, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne
Current Teaching
Has lectured widely. Currently:
2004 - date. Part time lecturer at the University of Lincoln, BA and MA Fine Art courses
2010 - date. Part-time lecturer (Art and Design) University of Leeds
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 Pane (with Spencer Roberts) for 24/7 project space at the Gooden Gallery, Vyner Street, London
2010 Weep O Mine Eyes video temporarily installed at (National Trust property) Barrington Court, Somerset as part of Scion (Artwork of the Month),
Re-Sounding Falkland (with David Chapman), site-specific video and sound works for Falkland Palace and Falkland Estate, Falkland,
Scotland (publication)
2008 Arcadia (with David Chapman), sound installation for Falkland Palace, Scotland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 An Uncommon Past (12 invited artists from the University of Derby), Sichuan Fine Art Institute in China - as part of the British Council's Festival
of British Art in China entitled UK NOW
La Biennale 2012, at the I.P. Stanback Museum and Planetarium at South Carolina State University, USA
Topophobia Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London Jan- Feb 2012 and the Bluecoat, Liverpool Mar - April 2012. Commissioned new work for Spacex
Gallery, Exeter (July 2012)
2010 Comeback Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
2009 I Hear Too Live, York Minster
2008 Composure Impressions Gallery, Bradford
Selected Video screenings
2012 Gleaners Screening at the London Short Film Festival
2008 Evolution 2008 (Lumen) Leeds
2007 Evolution 2007 (Lumen) Leeds
2006 CineCity, the Brighton Film Festival
2006 Synch Festival, Athens, Greece
2006 Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Holland
Selected Awards
2010 Scottish Arts Council Grant for Re-Sounding Falkland
2008 Calouste Gulbenkian Grant for the Falkland Estate project with David Chapman
2005-10 NESTA Fellowship
2002 London Arts Board Visual Arts Award
2001 Short-term visitor grant, National Air and Space Museum, (Smithsonian Institution) Washington DC
Selected Placements/Residencies
2006 ACE Oxford and Melbourne Fellowship, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford and Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
2005 The Bigger Picture Video Commission
Residency in the North West Film Archive, Manchester
2004 Fire Service Video Commission Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service
2003 Arena Baltic/Samling Foundation, Newcastle/ Gateshead
2002-03 Memory and Forgetting Sci/Art Project, PEALS/ Northern Print, Newcastle
Conference Lectures/Panel Discussions
2012 Artist’s talk for Topophobia, the Bluecoat, Liverpool
Topophobia Symposium, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London
2011 Unknown Fields Division Symposium: From the ATOMIC to the COSMIC, The Architectural Association, London.
Tuned City, Tallinn, Estonia
2010 The Great Glen Artists Airshow, HICA, Scotland (Arts Catalyst)
Spectral Traces, LAND2 Symposium, University of Leeds
2009 I Hear Too - Improving Heritage Experience through Acoustic Reality and Audio Research, Railway Museum, York, (joint with David Chapman).
2008 Sounding Out 4, University of Sunderland (joint with David Chapman),
Selected Book Chapters
2010 Lethality and Vulnerability in New Aldeburgh Anthology (Boydell Press) Ariane Bankes & Jonathan Reekie (eds)
2009 Notes on a Record of Fear: On the Threshold of the Audible in Contemporary Archaeologies: Excavating Now (Peter Lang, Frankfurt) Cornelius
Holtorf & Angela Piccini (eds)
Out to the waste: Spadeadam and the Cold War in A Fearsome Heritage: 2007 Diverse Legacies of the Cold War (One World Archaeology,
Left Coast Press Inc) John Schofield & Wayne Cocroft (eds)
Selected Published Writings/Artworks
2012 Wilson, LK. (and Schofield,J, Cocroft, W, Boulton, A, and Dunlop, G.) ’The aerodrome’: Art, heritage and landscape at former RAF Coltishall,
Journal of Social Archaeology Volume 12 Issue 1 February 2012 pp. 110 - 132
2011 Wilson, LK (and Chapman, D) ‘The Caress of the Audio: Re-sounding Falkland’, Social Semiotics Vol. 21, No. 4, pp: 517-529
Wilson, LK (and Chapman, D) eds. Re-sounding Falkland, catalogue of critical essays
2010 Chapman, D. and Wilson, LK ‘Falkland: a Sonic Investigation of Place’, Journal of Media Practice, Vol.11, No.3. pp: 231-242 (with Louise K. Wilson).
2008 Chapman, D. and Wilson, LK 'Critical Dialogues: David Chapman & Louise K Wilson' Scan: Journal of Media Arts Practice Vol. 5, No.3 (peer-reviewed)
http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=125
2007 Wilson, LK. UOVO 14 (on Soundscape CD, curated by David Toop)
2006 Wilson, LK. Notes on A Record of Fear: On the Threshold of the Audible in Leonardo Music Journal, Journal 16 Noises Off: Sound Beyond Music
e-mail : lkwilson@dircon.co.uk
website : www.lkwilson.org
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