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Louise

Cherry

Disciplines: Painting

Location: Wicklow Town

Materials: Acrylic, Darkroom, Oil, Photomontage

@louisecherrystudio

Louise Cherry is a multi-disciplinary artist with an extensive art practice that includes painting, photography, film, sculpture, performance and writing. Cherry has exhibited nationally and internationally through both conceptual photography and her abstract paintings and her art is held in both private and public collections home and abroad. Cherry has a first class masters in Visual Arts Practice from The Institute of Art, Design and Technology (2009), and a first class degree in Photography from The Dublin Institute of Technology (2001). Cherry’s nudes, without detail, deliberately featureless, anonymous, and an almost androgynous visual of the naked body, challenge the viewers gaze and interest. The floating naked figures, juxtaposed to their surroundings force the viewer to question the purpose of nudes within the narrative and ask why are there at all. Cherry has placed the anonymous nude within abstract explosions of colour, to symbolise anonymity, secrecy and chaos within the unseen and unsupervised ersatz cyber world our children live in. Text, referencing both children’s fairy tales and cyber porn code, allow humour infiltrate this otherwise serious topic. Through visual pleasure combined with visual confusion, Cherry challenges her viewer to enter her fantastical world and explore some of these concepts with her.

Previous Experience

Solo Exhibitions 2025 All that’s left of you in me, An Chead Tine Gallery, Kilkenny 2008 You, you and me, Temple Bar Galleries, Dublin 2006 Fragilities, Wicklow County Buildings 2006 Fragilities, Temple Bar Galleries, Dublin 2005 Fragilities, Tinahely Arts Centre, Wicklow 2004 Members Only, Irish Tour, inc: Listowel Arts Centre, Kerry, St Johns Arts Centre, Kerry, Droichead Arts Centre, Louth, Riverbank Arts Centre, Kildare and The Model Arts Centre, Co.Silgo Group Exhibitions 2025 Juxtaposition, An Chead Tine Gallery, Kilkenny, part of the Arts Festival 2025 Shifting, Limerick Museum, Curated by Mary Doyle Burke, March 2025 2024 1.618 – Order in chaos, An Chead Tine Gallery, Kilkenny August 2024 2024 Conversation with Trees, Curated by Eamon Colman, Artnetdlr, Dun Laoighaire 2023 Summer of Love, The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare 2023 Transience, Curated by Carmel Benson, Artnetdlr, Dun Laoighaire 2022 The Winter Gathering, Curated by Louise Cherry, Wicklow Town 2022 Signal

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