Dates: 27 October – 17 November 2025
Opening Times: 11am-5pm Monday-Friday
I’m delighted to let you know that the work I’ve been developing in recent years will be exhibited at the Peter Scott Gallery this autumn as part of Lancaster Arts’ On Land season.
This work has been made in response to a series of health-related and physically challenging life-events and has involved me emplacing those experiences into landscapes that include limestone pavements and boulder fields, slate quarries, and sandstone riverbeds.
As part of the exhibition (entitled Becoming Rock), on Tuesday 11 November at 1pm I will be giving a Tuesday Talk about my work. From 3–5pm, I will also lead a creative drawing and mapping workshop for women interested in exploring experiences of health-related life events (in relation to land). The day will close with the season celebration gathering at 5.30pm.
If you’re unable to join me on that day, please do get in touch — I’d be very happy to arrange a time to meet at the gallery on another occasion.
Exhibition Overview:
Becoming Rock offers a deeply personal perspective on our 2025 theme of Land, exploring the artist's landscape-based responses to two recent major life-events: a radical hysterectomy resulting in surgical menopause and breast cancer which led to multiple surgeries.
Through photography, film, prints, and experimental drawings, Louise documents her experiences within rocky landscapes chosen for their physical, psychological, and metaphorical resonance, and encourages us to relate our own life experiences, whatever they may be, to the landscape.
Responding to her cancer diagnosis, the artist seeks out boulders where she films and photographs her body, making connections between the calcium rich limestone landscape and the 'calcification' occurring within her own tissue.
Experiences of radical hysterectomy are sited in the dramatic slate-quarried landscapes of the Lake District, drawing parallels between the surgically quarried body and quarried land. A series of site-specific walks explore the effects of menopause using a process of walking and menopause map-drawing.
Please note this exhibition contains images relating to surgical procedures.
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