“Although she begins with uncensored gut instinct, Louise makes conscious decisions about how much to give away explicitly. She’s interested in these paintings as a spark for discussion, in the work as a site for conflict, and perhaps confusion, rawness and debate. We and she are encountering cultural and personal demons and ghosts with every gesture she makes. She describes her process as "painting, destroying, painting again… until the final painting is discovered". Experimentation with texture and pigment is important. Her oil and acrylic surfaces are layered with drips and scrapes. There is tension between the chemical makeups of the materials, and a clear understanding of art as physical, psychological, emotional, as much as it is a visual mode of expression. Here is an artist finding freedom and wisdom in a still exploratory space, not exorcising so much as she is carefully exercising the sprits now clambering for presence in her paint” Cristín Leach 2025
Extract from extended essay by Cristín Leach on “All That’s Left Of You In Me”
All That’s Left Of You In Me
Louise Cherry
CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT ARTIST AND CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHER
Louise Cherry is an Irish artist living and working in Wicklow, in the East of Ireland. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group shows, through both conceptual photography and her abstract paintings. Louise is the founder and owner of the Louise Cherry Gallery, a contemporary gallery dedicated to the displaying of local art and design, and the founder and director of The Art Studio, an art school for children and teenagers, both in her home town of Wicklow.
Louise has an extensive art practice that includes painting, photography, film, sculpture, performance and writing. Her current focus, abstract paintings, are an elaborate investigation of paint layering and deconstruction. Louise was a lecturer in photography at Dun Laoighaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT) and with the Dublin City VEC for a number of years before leaving to focus on her art practice.
