ALL MY LIVES,
solo show at Arebyte Laser, Clerkenwell, London. 17th July - 2nd August 2017.
Objects, video and voiceover relating to a 1:1 performance piece 'Why Don't We Live Together' where I planned lives with strangers in their houses while cleaning with them. This show is a fictional, hybrid recollection of these hypothetical lives and their reliquary. Voiceover here.
solo show at Arebyte Laser, Clerkenwell, London. 17th July - 2nd August 2017.
Objects, video and voiceover relating to a 1:1 performance piece 'Why Don't We Live Together' where I planned lives with strangers in their houses while cleaning with them. This show is a fictional, hybrid recollection of these hypothetical lives and their reliquary. Voiceover here.
Homeopathy is Just a Very Refined Form of Pollution, 2016.
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Video elements of the installation:
Slither, 2016
Carpet was removed from the front room of the exhibition space and carried to Threadneedle Street in The City of London, where it was used to occupy an obsolete slither of space between The Royal Bank of Scotland and a modern office building. Made for Bread&Jam, a project space in a terraced house in Brockley, South London.
SEAM, 2015
Bones and coal found on the Thames shore, silk sacks, 1 hour of our lives spent mudlarking. Collaboration with Fritha Jenkins for Art Licks Weekend.
It's Lovely ISN'T It? / YARD HOUSE, 2013
Royal College of Art Sculpture MA Degree Show 2013. It's Lovely Isn't It? A collaboration between Louise Ashcroft and Noga Inbar as part of a wider group project with Yard House Collective. Louise and Noga made a film, cast bronze 'hooks' and nails, made masks, wrote text and created an environment within which these elements were presented. The masks were part of events in the space throughout the show and the film featured the masks being taken into the outside world. Yard House Collective (including Louise and Noga) worked together to build the house.
The attitude of the project was: Sharing lunch, time, space and thoughts on solidarity, boundaries, domesticity, exchange, caring, politics and ways of making and existing within art. We set out to live in the spaces between us. Noga Inbar, Harry Lawson, Lina Lapelyte, Oliver Roy, Jack Tan, Marlene Haring, Louise Ashcroft and Vesta Kroese. "It's not a house - it's an attitude of togetherness".
Harry Lawson's installation, which included furniture and a living space, occupied the other half of the yard house. Marlene Haring's bar for one person and Vesta Kroese's seating sculptures were located in the yard in front of the house. We inhabited the space daily and held communal lunches and discussions there together throughout the set-up and the show.
The attitude of the project was: Sharing lunch, time, space and thoughts on solidarity, boundaries, domesticity, exchange, caring, politics and ways of making and existing within art. We set out to live in the spaces between us. Noga Inbar, Harry Lawson, Lina Lapelyte, Oliver Roy, Jack Tan, Marlene Haring, Louise Ashcroft and Vesta Kroese. "It's not a house - it's an attitude of togetherness".
Harry Lawson's installation, which included furniture and a living space, occupied the other half of the yard house. Marlene Haring's bar for one person and Vesta Kroese's seating sculptures were located in the yard in front of the house. We inhabited the space daily and held communal lunches and discussions there together throughout the set-up and the show.
Queer Bronze, 2013. Louise Ashcroft & Noga Inbar. Bronze hooks on which the masks were stored.
The worm and other objects , the function room, sept-oct 2014.
Installation shot of my solo show at The Function Room in Somers Town. A bottle of syrup was exhibited alongside a rambling, 'stream-of-consciousness' soundpiece on an iPod. The bottle of syrup had a label on it saying 'Sorry but all the objects and images I promised you had to be distilled into a syrup to make space for new stuff in the world'. The show also involved a performance event. Image with permission of Anthony Auerbach and The Function Room, c 2014.
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AVATAR, 2013
Mannequin, the artist's clothes, ladder, trolley, removed ceiling tile. Installation at 55 Gracechurch Street.
THE WORLD AND HIS WIFE, 2014:
Week-long residency in the Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art - January 2014. Project space with sculptures and actions evolving throughout.
CAN't CATCH me, 2013.
Royal College of Art 'Work in Progress' show. Videos, objects, monitors.
Boiling Glendalough waterfall, 2013.
Part of a project in collaboration with Fritha Jenkins. We travelled to Ireland, collected a waterfall and brought it back to the gallery space where we boiled it until it evaporated.
STILTED, 2013.
Shoes, straps, books, shoeless artist.
Globe head, 2012, Oxford Botanic Gardens.
Mannequin, the artist's clothes, trowel. Wearing the entire globe as a giant head.
VESSEL, 2012. COLLABORATION WITH FRITHA JENKINS. In TRANSIT Festival.
A sculptural walk reactivating the lost River Westbourne.
Copyright Louise Ashcroft 2018.