HOMECOMINGS

An Artistic Investigation by Louise Penrice

Homecomings traces the journeys, encounters, and material investigations that have shaped Louise Penrice’s artistic practice and her evolving relationship with paper, plants, and place.

Working with handmade paper and plant fibres gathered from the landscape, Penrice explores the transformation of natural materials into sculptural forms and installations. Her practice unfolds through close observation, experimentation, and an ongoing dialogue with the physical properties of materials.

At the centre of her research is Hidden Grammars, an ongoing enquiry into the underlying structures, patterns, and languages that emerge through encounters with the natural world and the processes of making.

For Penrice, paper becomes both a material and a means of reading the world. Through touch, repetition, and transformation, her work investigates relationships between material agency, human experience, beauty, and transience.

Attentive to what is often overlooked, her practice reveals the traces and stories held within natural materials, inviting reflection on how artistic knowledge develops through sustained engagement with the material world.