Louise Ritchie is an award-winning artist/lecturer in Contemporary Art Practice and holds a practice-based PhD from DJCAD/UoD. Her practice is multidisciplinary, encompassing painting, sculpture and writing. Louise is co-author with Andrew Milligan, Senior Lecturer at DJCAD, of chapter Space, Object, Experience in The Routledge Handbook of Interior Architecture Research. Her writing is published in Open Rivers journal, the London Writers’ Salon Anthology 2025 &26 and in the forthcoming Victoria Garden Writes for The Open University. Louise is a member of Project 1 curatorial panel in Dundee, The British Academy Early Career Researcher Network and is a Past-President of the Society of Scottish Artists with work in collections throughout the UK and abroad.