Louise Rouse works in the interdisciplinary areas of printmaking, digital fabrication and embodied philosophies of technology.
A seasoned cultural worker based in Tokyo and London, her research interests include transnational subjectivity, gendered migration experiences, technofied psychogeography and material ecologies.
Rouse has expertise in coordinating transnational grant applications for solo and collaborative projects and is passionate about knowledge exchange beyond the academy.
Education
2024 PhD Printmaking Department, Tokyo University of the Arts
2011 MFA Design Department, Tama Art University
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2023 Movable Types • Route Gallery
2022 Sounds from Liminal Towns • TOKAS with Agustín Spinetto
2021 Invisible Cities • Hagiso with Albert Yonathan Setyawan
2021 Nakanojo Biennale
Select Group Exhibitons
2023 Snapshots, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London
2022 Chiyoda 3331 Art Fair, Tokyo
2022 300km, Group Exhibition, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy, Wrocław
2022 Between Worlds, Group Exhibition, Kentler International Drawing Space, New York
(curated by the Mokuhanga Sisters) (catalogue) Supported by The Japan Foundation
2021 The World Between the Block and the Paper, Southern Vermont Arts Center, VT, USA (catalogue)
2021 Artists as Independent Publishers, Group Exhibition Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen, Bremen, and Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, (curated by Stephan Baumkötter, Marion Bösen, Katrin von Maltzahn and Tania Prill) (catalogue)
2019 Out of Bounds, Four-person exhibition with Yurie Nagashima, Rie Tsunegi and Rie Iwatake, Bloc Projects Gallery, Sheffield UK, part of Japan Now North. Supported by Japan Foundation (catalogue)
Grants/Scholarships/Awards
2022 Asia Initiatives Publishing Grant
2022 I Love You funded project
2020 Wikimedia Foundation Conference Grant
2019 MEXT Scholarship
