Artist Research - Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was born on 25th December 1911 and died on the 31st May 2010 and was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and print maker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the subconscious. Bourgeois transformed her experiences into a highly personal visual language through the use of mythological and archetypal imagery, adopting objects such as spirals, spiders, cages, medical tools, and sewn appendages to symbolise the feminine psyche, beauty, and psychological pain. I discovered Louise Bourgeois' work when I started to experiment with wadding and stitching in my sketchbook. I found her work very unique and her installation pieces are inspiring but very peculiar.