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Louise Oates
(b. 1987, London)
︎︎︎IceBlink Luck
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Louise Oates
(b. 1987, London)
︎︎︎IceBlink Luck
Louise Oates' research-led practice entwines industries, bodies, and planetary processes, whereby metabolisms coalesce into material narratives. Utilising aesthetics of archives, displays, and archaeological tools of measure to imbue a notion of authoritative knowledge, she continuously investigates the space between chaos and stasis, gesturing towards a reevaluation of human centrism and awaiting a reassembly in light of a new categorisation.
Oates’ work was previously exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2023-25); The Crypt Gallery (London, 2023 & 2022); Xxijra Hii (London, 2022), Saatchi Gallery (London, 2021 & 2020); Gossamer Fog (London, 2021); The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2021); Ryerson Image Centre (Toronto, 2020); The Polygon Gallery (Vancouver, 2019); California Museum of Photography (2018); Whitechapel Gallery (2017) and the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), among others.
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Oates’ work was previously exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2023-25); The Crypt Gallery (London, 2023 & 2022); Xxijra Hii (London, 2022), Saatchi Gallery (London, 2021 & 2020); Gossamer Fog (London, 2021); The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2021); Ryerson Image Centre (Toronto, 2020); The Polygon Gallery (Vancouver, 2019); California Museum of Photography (2018); Whitechapel Gallery (2017) and the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), among others.
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Louise Oates, Soft Water (2025). Image Courtesy of the artist.
Louise Oates, Elemental Anomalies (2023), detail. Image Courtesy of the artist. 
Louise Oates, Elemental Anomalies (2023). Image Courtesy of the artist. 
Louise Oates, 67°34′54″N,134°46′44″E (2024). Image Courtesy of the artist.
Louise Oates, Elemental Anomalies (2023). Image Courtesy of the artist. 
Louise Oates, Colonies of discrete hyphae stitching the world into existence (2021). Image Courtesy of the artist. 
Louise Oates, Mineral Articulations (2023), detail. Image Courtesy of the artist.