Louise Edgington

Louise works and lives in West London and her paintings focus on the extraordinariness of the everyday. The curious juxtapositions, expressive suggestions, and attention to detail in Louise's works on paper reflect and describe the constant stream of images that have become increasingly symptomatic of our daily life. The joy of her paintings is in the way that Louise uses humour and artistic references to draw out humanity within that maelstrom.

Louise grew up near Manchester. She moved to London for her degree at Chelsea, and has lived there ever since, spending the last thirty years honing her practice, working in oils, watercolour, and printmaking. Louise is constantly observing, and, like a magpie, appropriates images from a variety of sources, including her own photographs, the media, arts, and art history, as well as from the ordinariness of everyday life. Her works are thus very identifiable in that they harness the familiar, but are simultaneously disorientating in the way that they channel Louise's humour with magical realism and vivid colour.

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

1999 Mad World, Kiln Gallery
1997 Mad dogs and Englishwomen, The Ivory Tower, London
1993 cd-2 -, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
1989 Kensington & Chelsea Open, London
1988 Leicester county council exhibition
1987 Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Manchester

Selected group exhibitions

2016-17 Molly Goddard, what i like, Now Gallery, Greenwich
2015-16 The London Oratory School, artists' exhibition
2000 – 2018 RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
2000 Food, The kiln Gallery, London; Art for Avenues, Affordable Art Fair, London; Open Studios, Acava, London
1994 Quilts for Love, Hyde Park, London; Furniture, Dixon Bate, Leeds; Close to Home, Lister Gallery, Sussex; Body & Soul, Bury art Gallery & Museum
1993 Related Paintings, Bury Art Gallery & Museum
1991 Heads & Flowers, Chelsea Library, London

Say a Prayer, 2016, watercolour on paper, 34.5 x 43.5 cm