Louise Adkins
Louise Adkins is an artist and researcher, working in the expanded field of memory and heritage studies, chronopolitics and fictioning. Her practice is predominately performative including drawing, artist books, photography, and film. She is interested in the slippage between historical fact and fiction, montaging the historically known and the unknown with cultural references, collective memory, and meta-narrative structures. Art works often explore the intersection between historicity, media culture and cinema and how they shape a collective memory of the past. She often works with historical collections, archives, libraries, and heritage sites and is interested in the performative possibilities and narrative potential inherent in revisioning their histories. She has worked extensively with external communities and specialist interest groups, and is interested in the stories, knowledge and skills they bring to the performative works.
Recently she has performed and exhibited work at Begehungen Cheminitz European city of Culture 2025, the Portico Library Manchester, The Tetley Leeds, Temple Bar Gallery Dublin, Ruskin Gallery Cambridge, Holden Gallery, Manchester, Art Gene, The Lakes and Studio 2 Gallery West Yorkshire. Alongside this she has produced a series of limited-edition artists books published by Wild Pansy Press, the University of Leeds titled Notes, for a Performance – Final Draft and Notes for a Performance – Weather Permitting. These have been exhibited at national and international artist book fairs including PAGES, The Tetley UK, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden and Espai Barra de Ferro, Barcelona, Spain.
She is an Associate Professor – Postgraduate leading on the Collaborative Practice pathway at Coventry School of Art, and ASPiRE Research Fellow in the Centre for Arts, Memory, and Communities at Coventry University.