Louise Pallister
Louise Pallister is an artist and writer whose work centres on our relationship with other animals. After a first degree in fine art sculpture at Liverpool University, she worked in museums, galleries and design studios around the country before returning to her own practice, graduating with Distinction from the MA Fine Art at City and Guilds of London Art School in 2014.
Her practice spans drawing, printmaking, photography, animation, artists' books and writing. Informed by sculpture, anatomy, life drawing and early photography of animals in motion, she sets out to reveal unfamiliar aspects of familiar animals, or to highlight the status of a species: extinct, endangered or everyday.
A Society of Wildlife Artists bursary in 2018 supported an edition of her artists' books, shown at the Mall Galleries. Her essays on art and nature are published by The Learned Pig. She lives near the Suffolk coast, finding inspiration in its marshland and reedbeds.
Artist Statement
I enjoyed drawing from a young age and so I drew more and I drew what I loved and was around me: our animal companions, nature, organic shapes. Studying life drawing and sculpture for my first degree trained me to consider form and to think about drawing in the round. When I returned to my own practice it felt inevitable that I'd focus on our fellow animal travellers on this unique planet and the only subject matter that truly fascinates me. Mark making, for me, is a means of translating an experience or sensation, a form of journaling and a way to forge a connection with the viewer. The incredible is everywhere if we care to look.
