Louise Black (b.1992) is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working on the east coast of Scotland.
Through physiology, Black's works investigate the female figure as a main catalyst point. In touch with issues of female identity, the body and the maternal as subject, she performs an investigation into alternative methods of seeing and being seen. Her practice which shifts between sculpture, print, drawing and installation articulates internal narratives through methods of labour, mending, looking, and reflecting. With a deep fascination in human anatomy, the reproductive system and the beautiful and the grotesque, Black considers the relationships between interior and exterior surfaces of the body and the rigid dichotomies between powerfulness and vulnerability.
EDUCATION
2021 - 2022 | Fine Art MFA (with Distinction), Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee
2017 - 2021 | BA (Hons) Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee
CURRENT & FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2023 Mother Art Prize, Zabludowicz Collection, London
EXHIBITIONS
2023 RSA New Contemporaries, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2023 In Unison, Spilt Milk Gallery at Carnegie Library & Galleries, Dunfermline
2022 Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) 130 Years Annual Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh | Collaboration with Iona Brown
2022 SSA 30X30 130 Years | Annual Exhibition, The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), Edinburgh
2022 Masters Show, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
2022 UNMUTE | Society of Scottish Artists, Dunoon Burgh Hall, Argyll
2022 Truth, Beauty, Integrity, Soul, Duncan of Jordanstone College of art & Design, Dundee
2021 Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) 123rd Annual Exhibition, The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), Edinburgh
2021 Fine Art IRL Degree Show, Generator Projects, Dundee
2021 Graduate Degree Show, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee
2020 If she could do it all she would, Spilt Milk Gallery [Virtual Exhibition]
2020 Fourth Year Take Over, Generator Projects, Dundee
2019 Members Showcase, Generator Projects, Dundee
AWARDS
2023 Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop Graduate Research Award
2022 The Duncan of Jordanstone Postgraduate Award [recognition of best academic performance over the course of the Masters year]
2022 Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) John Kinross Scholarship
2021 Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) New Graduate Award
SHORTLISTINGS
2021 ARTSTHREAD Global Design Graduate Show in Collaboration with GUCCI
2021 Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) Graduate Showcase Award, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
PRESS
The Scotsman, November 2022
The Fleming Collection, November 2022
Encounters_art, November 2022