About
Louise Lahive is a visual artist producing mixed media and semi sculptural work that explores pattern alongside the figurative. Lahive’s images strive to encompass or unite seemingly diverse themes that are sometimes explored through scientific data or imaging. Louise graduated from Kingston University in 1999 and since this time has worked and lived in the USA and UK . In 2012 Lahive became an elected fellow at Digswell Arts and in 2021 she graduated from the University of Hertfordshire with an MA in Fine Art. Lahive’s work is held in private collections in the UK, USA and China.
Recent exhibitions;
July-October 2023 Echoes From The Future, St Albans Museum and Art Gallery. St Albans. Two person exhibition. https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/echoes-future
February-March 2022 Derwent Art Prize, Gallery@OXO, London. Selected group exhibition.
November 2021 New Blood, Broadway Gallery, Hertfordshire. Selected group exhibition. Louise Lahive - New Blood | Broadway | Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire (broadway-letchworth.com)
September 2021 Withheld, UH Arts Gallery, University of Hertfordshire, Group MA exhibition.
March 2021 Cranberries on Mars ,Cloud 9 residency, Eastcheap project space, Letchworth.
January 2021 Letchworth Open, Broadway Gallery, Hertfordshire. Community Group exhibition.
November 2020 Uppercase gallery, University of Hertfordshire. Two person exhibition.
June 2020 Private View, Eastcheap Project space, Letchworth. Group Exhibition.
October 2019 Garden Gasp, ASC Gallery London, Group Exhibition as part of ArtLics Weekender
May 2019 Process of Ending, Surface Gallery, Nottingham. Solo Exhibition
March 2019 Kisses Not Stones, David Gentleman Gallery, Ware. Two-person exhibition
October 2018 Unity Muse, group exhibition, Letchworth community Museum
April 2018 Reflections Surface Gallery, Nottingham
September 2017 Blood landscape Westminster Reference library
2016/17 Untitled Broadway Gallery Letchworth, Solo exhibition
2016 Looking Deeper, Courtyard Arts, Hertford UK, Group exhibition
2015 Swarm Fenners Exhibit Space, Letchworth UK Solo Exhibition of Landscapes
2014 The Longest Day Digswell Arts Trust, Group Exhibition
Short Artists Statement;
My work is engaged with the ideas of how we situate ourselves in reality and how we might rethink ourselves in the context of our increasing self-knowledge and changing ecologies. I am interested in how art can act as an unrestrictive space in which we can bring together disparate or unformed ideas and possibly re-imagine our relationships to the environments or processes we find ourselves in. My practice is anchored in painting, drawing and soft sculpture but also incorporates ideas, aesthetics and materials from outside the traditional cannon of fine art. I am interested in assimilating and mixing up ideas that are fundamental to our understanding of ourselves, and these can be found in any area from theoretical physics to theology or literature. My work attempts to process or incorporate these ideas into the visual reality of icons or patterns. I believe that art can offer a space in which conflicting concepts can be held and explored but more importantly, a place in which we can attempt to perform a re-imagining of ourselves that is free from any prescribed outcomes or functions.
Writing
https://www.leftlion.co.uk/read/2019/may/art-review-louise-lahive-surface-gallery-process-of-ending/
https://eastcheap.space/Cloud-9
Contact: louiselahive@hotmail.com