Louise
MANIFOLD

Louise Manifold is a visual artist and curator based in the west of Ireland, holds a BA in Sculpture from GMIT Galway Ireland, and MA in Fine Art from Central St Martins Collage London England. She has exhibited extensively in Ireland and internationally in China, Canada, Iceland, France, The United States and in the U.K .She has been the recipient of grant awards from The Arts Council of Ireland, Culture Ireland. The European League of Institutes for the Arts, Galway City Council and Galway Arts Centre soapbox award 2007 . Her work is held in collections in both Bank of Ireland, Galway County Council, and numerous private collections throughout Ireland. Louise currently lives in Galway and is a member of Art space studios

Solo exhibitions

2008

Snowberry One Gallery 3 Clare St Dublin 2 Ireland

BullsWool Signal Arts centre Bray Co. Wicklow Ireland

2007

Legend Galway city museum Spanish Arch Galway. Ireland

Selected group exhibition

2010

Couleurs d'Irlande, Artspace Group Show, Galerie du Faouedic - Lorient - France

2009

when you cut into the present the future leaks out , Curated by Elena Bajo &Pong Bui

PS1 contemporary Art Centre New York

In search of utopia curated by Maeve Mulrennan, Galway arts centre, Nuns Island theatre

Inishlacken project curated by Maeve Mulrennan and Roise Mc Gurran

Red House Arts Centre Syracuse New York U.S.A

2008

Galway Arts Festival Artspace studios festival box office Merchants rd Galway

Summer Group Show, Norman Villas Gallery, Salthill Galway

Eighse Carlow arts festival, Curated by Patrick T. Murphy ,

Carlow institute of technology, Carlow

Inishlacken: a place apart curated by Maeve Mulrennan and Rosie Mc Gurran

Galway Arts centre 47 Dominic St Galway

2007

Terms and conditions, curated by Aideen Barry Mermaid gallery Bray, Co. Wicklow.

Nether here nor there , curated by Maeve Mulrennan, Galway arts centre, Galway

Galway Arts Festival. Artspace 21 exhibition, GTI, Fr Griffin Rd, Galway

Cause and effect, curated by Aideen Barrry Banff Centre Alberta Canada

6x6 for Ireland, 411 Galleries, Hangzhou Shanghai Beijing, China

2006

Tulca Festival of visual art, curated by Cliodhna Shaffery and Sarah Searson

Concave/convex Kilkenny Arts festival Berkeley Gallery, Thomastown Kilkenny.

Galway Arts Festival Artspace studios exhibition, GTI, Fr. Griffin rd. Galway.

2005

Tulca Festival of visual art, Curated by Aine Philips ,Fisheries Tower, Galway

Bodily Functions, European capital of culture Granary Theatre, Mardyke Cork.

Central St Martins Symposium, Matt’s Gallery, Copperfield Rd, Hackney London,

On the underbelly, Curated by Neva Elliot Upstairs gallery, Clerkenwell, London.

First book of ideas Art scene warehouse, 50 Moganshan rd. Shanghai China.

Leviathan, Candid arts centre, 3 Torrents St, Angel, Islington, London.

2004

From Galway to Laurent, Galway City Council exchange Laurent, France.

Horizon, collaborative project with Aideen Barry, St. Nicolas church, Maingard St Galway,

Tulca, season of visual art, Curated by Micheal Dempsey, Galway Arts Centre Galway.

2003

Tulca Season of visual art Curated by Micheal Dempsey Galway Arts Centre Galway.

Sculpture in context, National Botanical gardens Glasnevin, Dublin.

The village with no name The Safehouse Art space, Donegall St, Belfast.







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My work investigates human relationships between everyday reality and the realm of the impossible, incorporating mythical, spiritual, and paranormal ideas and rituals. My practice investigates approximations between real and unreal as a way to understand personal and collective identity within contemporary culture. Explored through the media of video, installation, photography and live art experiments. My materials are an eclectic mix of peculiar and everyday spaces, people and artifacts. My fascination with anthropology and phenomena is continually referenced through the finding of practices and stories on the borderland between fact and fantasy which cannot be explained but in someway hint at the credibility of human perception. An important process within the work is the manipulation of narrative styles of interpretation. The documentary, reconstruction and reenactment of stories are employed, as so to mirror ones own inherent personal and collective perception.