Louise Chapman

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Course leader BA (Hons) Costume for Performance

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l.chapman@fashion.arts.ac.uk

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Biography

After graduating from an HND in Theatre Design (Costume) from Mabel Fletcher’s in Liverpool Louise worked professionally as a costume maker, cutter and supervisor with companies including the Royal Shakespeare Company, Aardmann Animations and the Stephen Joseph Theatre with Alan Ayckbourn.

Working in higher education as Course Leader on the BA Hons Costume Design and Practice course at Birmingham City University she evolved Knowledge Exchange (KE) projects working with companies including, The National Trust, Gres Portela School of Samba, Rio de Janeiro, and also Motionhouse as part of the cultural programming of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham 2022.

Prompted by her discovery of an assemblage of dress bequeathed by Kate Elizabeth Bunce, (1856-1927) the late Pre-Raphaelite artist she enrolled onto an AHRC funded practice- based Ph.D. with Amy de la Haye as her director of studies in the Centre for Curatorial Practice in 2016. her Ph.D. entitled, Costuming as an Authorial Practice: Reading and Re-Authoring an Assemblage of Every Day Women’s Aesthetic Dress from 1795-1885 is investigating how the contract for participation might be renegotiated between everyday historical dress and the spectator within encounters or exhibitions of historical dress.

Louise Chapman

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London College of Fashion

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