MsLouise Palmer

Louise Palmer is a New Zealand artist currently based in Ōtautahi, Christchurch. She exhibits, and has curated exhibitions, in New Zealand and Australia.

Louise's current research practice explores the intersection between sculptural conventions and the personal underpinnings of an artwork. She has drawn on sculptural approaches such as casting and site-specificity which inform the work both materially and conceptually. It is through a reconsideration of tradition that the role of contemporary sculpture is explored; cast and reformed from residues of everyday life, recent research suggests a rethinking of the conventional meanings and values ascribed to objects and places. This interdisciplinary practice is expanded to consider the role of the artist as writer and curator as well as maker.