Louise Schmid’s Anti-Nuke Pills is an ongoing series of frames from some post-apocalyptic survival guide/comic strip. The hard-edge black shapes that form both architecture and occupants of those works bend under their own significance. Urgent signage forgets its meaning, street lamps weep and archival storage facilities fall apart at the seams. Within this tumult however is a tenderness of touch that unpicks at panic, finding liberty and poetry in the shadow of the bomb.
Louise Schmid is a visual artist based in Glasgow. This year she is developing a new body of work titled URA Zoo, focusing on symbiotic alliances, where images create an imaginative meeting place for humans and other animals, ecology and aesthetics. URA Zoo is inextricably bound up with an astute critique of dominant hierarchical structures and concerns on our consumption of natural resource. Louise Schmid’s drawing process can be slow and involves numerous layers and transformations. A direct, comical drawing style often seems to belie the complexity of its subject matter. Working with condensed metaphors and elementary materials on paper, aids reducing artwork to its essence. Louise Schmid’s wall mounted installations consist mainly of interconnected rhizomes.
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