Louise Curham

Louise Curham has been working with analogue film since finding darkrooms in New Zealand in 1990. During film school in Melbourne in the early 1990s, Louise moved through narrative film and dance film to find her way to experimental film and expanded cinema. In the late 1990s, she studied painting at TAFE while active with cross disciplinary artists in Aphids. Louise was also active in the Melbourne Super8 Group, participating in one of the last Super8 festivals in Yarraville. Those strands of liveness and DIY politics of super 8 brought Louise to expanded cinema in a Master of Fine Arts at COFA in Sydney (2000-2004). During this time the collaboration Teaching and Learning Cinema with Lucas Ihlein was forged, work that continues. Through 2006-8 Louise was active in Sydney’s experimental music scene before a move to Canberra in 2009. Working often in galleries since then, highlights include PhotoAccess 2015 and 2019 and the Canberra Art Biennial 2022 and 2024. Most recently Louise and Teaching and Learning Cinema contributed to Light Source at Drill Hall Gallery, 2025.