Louise Mackenzie is a UK based artist creating installation, sculpture, performance, sound and film works. With a focus on living material, she is interested in the relationships between medium, sound, image and text, attempting to find ways in which these can be connected to produce unexpected results.
Recent projects have included an audio-visual installation relating the microbiological to the cosmological for Lumiere Durham 2015, a bio art installation with Newcastle University School of Marine Science and Technology, revealing the sublime in cyanobacteria and a micro-residency with Lancaster University exploring social communication in bacteria.
Louise received the New Graduate Award at Synthesis, Manchester Science Festival, 2013 and was shortlisted for the Bio Art & Design Awards, 2015 in The Netherlands. She is currently recipient of post-graduate research funding from BxNU Institute of Contemporary Art, a Northumbria University and BALTIC partnership, to explore the agency of the organism within fine art practice.
Recent projects have included an audio-visual installation relating the microbiological to the cosmological for Lumiere Durham 2015, a bio art installation with Newcastle University School of Marine Science and Technology, revealing the sublime in cyanobacteria and a micro-residency with Lancaster University exploring social communication in bacteria.
Louise received the New Graduate Award at Synthesis, Manchester Science Festival, 2013 and was shortlisted for the Bio Art & Design Awards, 2015 in The Netherlands. She is currently recipient of post-graduate research funding from BxNU Institute of Contemporary Art, a Northumbria University and BALTIC partnership, to explore the agency of the organism within fine art practice.
