Louise is a multidisciplinary artist using film, dance, textiles, and sculpture. Her focuses on the aesthetic and environmental aspects of the landscape experienced over the four seasons, weaving together a tapestry of people and place.
Along with her studio she has established a community engaged creative practice delivering workshops that focus on the changing landscape explored through sensory elements we experience within the everyday. Working alongside artist and sister-in-law Megumi Uenoyama-Barrington they have delivered workshops within local primary schools, and community groups across the county.
In 2020 she was awarded funding from Creative Scotland Open Fund, for her project Four Seasons: making the invisible visible. An element of this supported time allowed her to work with dance artist and choreographer Stephanie Hellewell-Baird to create a screen dance film. Sylph was selected for LUX Scotland September’s ONE WORK, and DanceLive – Festival of Dance, 2021.
Louise has continued to develop her filmmaking skills within 16mm film, completing her first film in the medium in 2023, the film Four Seasons was selected as the closing film for the 2024 Alchemy Film Festival.
She was selected for the 2024 Convergence programme for emerging film writers, delivered by Short Circuit, a film talent initiative supported by Screen Scotland and BFI NETWORK. The programme is led by esteemed screenwriter David Pope.
Louise graduated from both the Slade School of Fine Art within the sculpture department, and Central Saint Martin’s where she practised Textile Design. Since returning to the Orkney Islands, where she grew up, Louise has completed a postgraduate degree in Island Studies as well as a teaching qualification in further education and currently teaches part-time at the UHI Orkney.
CV available upon request.