Work is Where You Are

Louise Atkinson recorded on 08/02/23

Louise Atkinson is a visual artist, researcher and educator, specialising in the relationship between art and ethnography. She works in a range of media and techniques, including artist books, postcards, drawing, textiles, sculpture, and digital art, tailoring her approach to meet the requirements of the project or artwork.

Her recent projects embody ideas of representation, artistic interpretation, curation, participatory practice, and social justice. These include working as an artist researcher with colleagues across applied linguistics, disability studies and heritage.

She is currently based at the University of Leeds as a Visiting Research Fellow, producing practice-based responses to Chinese wallpaper in British Country Houses to explore the ways in which the decorative arts form part of a broader cultural agenda, encompassing notions of taste, trade, and national identity.

She is also co-founder and director of The Highrise Project CIC, a social enterprise that aims to facilitate people in and around social housing to tell their own stories using art and creativity, as well as running the online visual arts opportunity platform, CuratorSpace. In her spare time, she likes to learn languages.

To find out more about Louise and her work go to: www.louiseatkinson.co.uk

Check out some of Louise's collaborative research here: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/research-old/literacies/multilingual-streets

If you’re interested in Curator space you can find that here: https://www.curatorspace.com/

And for anyone who’s interested in The Highrise Project CIC check it out here: https://www.thehighriseproject.co.uk/