Louise Beer (b. Aotearoa, New Zealand) is an artist and curator, who uses installation, moving image, photography, writing, participatory works and sound to explore humanity's evolving understanding of Earth’s environments and the cosmos. Her experience of living under two types of night sky has deeply informed her practice. She explores how living under dark skies, or light-polluted skies, can change our perception of grief, the climate crisis and Earth’s deep-time history and future.
Recent commissions include Derby Cathedral x FORMAT Photography Festival, the Bodleian Library, People United, the Arts Centre Christchurch Te Matatiki Toi Ora. In 2024, Beer was awarded a British Council Connections through Culture Grant for a collaboration with Tūhura Otago Museum in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Currently, she is working on her second Arts Council England DYCP award. Beer holds an MA Art and Science from Central Saint Martins and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Middlesex University, London. She lives and works between London, Margate and Aotearoa.
Earth, a Cosmic Spectacle
Developed with a British Council Connections through Culture Grant 2024, GRAIN Photography Residency x Forestry England in 2022 and Pale Blue Dot Collective residency, Art Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora, Christchurch, Aotearoa, New Zealand in 2020.
Gathering Light
Commissioned by Derby Cathedral x FORMAT Photography Festival 2023. Derby, England
Photography: John Hooper
Earth, a Cosmic Spectacle
Developed with a British Council Connections through Culture Grant 2024, GRAIN Photography Residency x Forestry England in 2022 and Pale Blue Dot Collective residency, Art Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora, Christchurch, Aotearoa, New Zealand in 2020.
Eternally spinning through darkness, Earth as a Planetary Landscape series,
Developed during Amant Siena Residency 2021
Photography: John Hooper
Earth, a Cosmic Spectacle
Developed with a British Council Connections through Culture Grant 2024, GRAIN Photography Residency x Forestry England in 2022 and Pale Blue Dot Collective residency, Art Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora, Christchurch, Aotearoa, New Zealand in 2020.