loulousainsbury@gmail.com
Education
2019 to 2021 - DAI Art Praxis MA at Dutch Art Institute
2017 to 2018 - Associate Artist at Open School East, Margate
2014 to 2016 - Moving Image BA (Hons) at University of Brighton
Selected Awards & Residencies
2025 - CBK Rotterdam - I&V Regeling, NL
2025 - Artist Project, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2024 - EKWC, Oisterwijk, NL (Residency)
2024 - CBK Rotterdam - I&V Regeling, NL
2023 - Kunstenaar Start, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2022 - Hamburger Community of Art, Roodkapje, Rotterdam, NL (Residency)
2021 to 2023 - Freelands Gasworks Partnership Programme , UK
2021 - Gasworks, London, UK (Residency)
Nominations
2023 - Nominated for the Film London Jarman Award
2022 - Nominated for VISIO - European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images
Solo Exhibitions
2024 - A Cloud That Bites, Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles, USA
2023 - DESCENDING NOTES/LIKE RAIN IN THE ABYSS, Roodkapje, Rotterdam, NL
2022 - Earth is a Deadname, Humber Street Gallery, Hull, UK
2022 - Earth is a Deadname, Gasworks, UK
2020 - my hole is the place where i call myself a mother, Well Projects, UK
Selected Performance Work
2023 - de gang mondt uit gedachten veranderd, Perdu, Amsterdam, NL
2022 - Xeny Meets Mr. Peonies, Gasworks, London, UK
2021 - Understory Chant, The Dutch Art Institute & Sonsbeek ‘20 - ‘24, NL
2020 - The Future is Near, Tate Modern, London, UK
2020 - you are telling my story. They tell and eat and kiss and play us, Yaby, Madrid, ES
2019 - 1667: Not Alive, Just Living, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
2018 - life/forms 3.0 | Wild Combination, Flat Time House, London, UK
Selected Screenings
2026 - International Competition, Videoex Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zürich, CH (Upcoming)
2026 - National Competition, Leiden Shorts Film Festival, Leiden, NL (Upcoming)
2026 - Official Selection, TILDE - Melbourne Trans & Gender Diverse Film Festival, Melbourne, AUS
2026 - Official Selection, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, SCT
2026 - Official Selection, the 11th San Diego Underground Film Festival, San Diego, US
2026 - Official Selection, the 53rd Athens International Film & Video Festival, Ohio, USA
2026 - Official Selection, the 55th International Film Festival Rotterdam - IFFR, NL
2026 - Official Selection, the 23rd London Short Film Festival, UK
2025 - Visions in the Nunnery, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
2025 - Official Selection, the 69th BFI London Film Festival, ICA, London, UK
2025 - Rage, Release, Recover, Camp Trans, UK
2025 - A Cute Puncture, A Queer Museum, Hanoi, VN
2025 - States of Resilience, Museum Arnhem & Down the Rabbit Hole Festival, NL
2025 - Sick Notes: Anne Boyer, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK
2025 - And Enter, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Hawick, SCT
2025 - Flesh, Re-vesseled, QUEERCIRCLE, London, UK
2024 - Stigmata: On Transembodiment, Atlas Cinema, London, UK
2024 - A Fantastic Body, Experimentica 2024, Chapter, Cardiff, WLS
2024 - Rupture, Museumnacht 010, Worm, Rotterdam, NL
2023 - descending notes, Rencontres Internationales, Paris, FR (Viewing Library)
2023 - INTRA (depend on me, bby), Ugly Duck Gallery, London, UK
2023 - descending notes - Except for Caresses, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, SCT
2023 - Trans-forming Trans-missions, Spanners, London, UK & Elevator, Shanghai, CN
2023 - descending notes, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), NL
2022 - Dark Advances: ‘Affect Aliens’ & Revolutionary Despair, Motto Books, Berlin, DE
2020 - Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, London, UK
2020 - Love Spells & Rituals For Another World, Royal Holloway, UK
2020 - The Conch, South London Gallery, UK
2018 - Moving Image 10th Anniversary, Cinecity, Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, UK
2017 - In the Effigy of the Moocow, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, SCT
2017 - Synthetic Ecology, ONCA Gallery, Brighton, UK
Selected Duo & Group Exhibitions
2026 - Troublemakers and Prophets: Elizabeth Allen and Other Visionary Artists, Compton Verney, UK
2025 - Significant Others, The People’s Letters & Prototype Publishing, London, UK
2025 - Burn the Sheets, House of Annetta, London, UK
2025 - Empathetic Lightning, Springs Projects, New York, US
2025 - Beyond the Commons: From Starlight to Everlasting Sun, A Space Gallery, Toronto, CA
2025 - Prospects, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam Ahoy, NL
2024 - It hûs is net ien, Triënnale fan Beetstersweach, Kunsthuis SYB, NL
2024 - Test Case XXXII, EKWC, Oisterwijk, NL
2024 - to carve without cutting, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, UNIT/PITT, Vancouver, CA
2024 - Rupture, Museumnacht 010, Worm, Rotterdam, NL
2024 - We’ll Be Your Mirror, Condo: Ehrlich Steinberg, Herald St, London, UK
2024 - Ovoce praská na rtech (Fruit bursts on your lips), hunt kastner, Prague, CZ
2024 - Atavism for the Future, Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles, USA
2024 - Late Works: Preperations II, Cafe Oto, London, UK
2022 - Fowelley’s Scent w/ gabi dao, Combine Art Fair, Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, CA
2022 - Invocations of Bewilderment, Imaginary Z, Hangzhou, CN
2022 - Poems for Vampires, Whitstable Biennale, UK
2022 - Shocked Quartz, Ugly Duck Gallery, London, UK
2021 - COVEN: Witchcraft for Love Politics, Feminist Autonomous Centre, Athens, GR
2021 - Metamorphosis: On future bodies & living identities, Nieuwe Vide, NL
2021 - Mood Spelled Backwards, Center of Contemporary Arts Prague, CZ
2020 - i fantasize a springtime and cry, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES
2019 - you are telling my story. They tell and eat and kiss and play us, Yaby, Madrid, ES
2019 - A Cut From Sharp Grass, Well Projects, Margate, UK
2018 - La Faz De La Tierra/The Face of the Earth, Espacio Pla, Buenos Aires, AR
2018 - The Unstable Condition, ODD, tranzit.ro, Bucharest, RO
2017 - The Well, Open School East, Margate, UK
Workshops
2024 - Elemental Poetics: Spellcasting for Reenchantment, UNIT/PITT, Vancouver, CA (with Gabi Dao)
2023 - Mutant Sensuality, Reading Room Rotterdam, NL
2023 - Transsensuality & Transpoetics: Sex Writing, With Maxime Dreesen, De Studio, Antwerp, BE
2022 - Trans*-Sensuality & Trans*-Poetics, Gasworks, UK
2020 - The Cosmic Choir - Online seminar series with Verity Birt
2019 - Writing the Toxic Voice, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
2018 - Wild Combination, Flat Time House, UK
2017 - Tool Making for a Precarious Future, Open School East, UK
Curatorial & Educational Positions
2024 to Current - Mentor of Online at Conditions, Croydon, UK
2019 to 2025 - Associate Artist at Conditions, 89 Gloucester Road, Croydon, UK
2024 - Queer Ecology at Wageningen University, NL
2021 - Associate Studio Programme at ACME & Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2020 - The Conch, South London Gallery, UK
2017 - Synthetic Ecology 2: Midnight Notes, ONCA, Brighton, UK
2017 - Synthetic Ecology, ONCA, Brighton, UK
Publications
2026 - Mythical Thought, Radical Imagination, by Marta Sesé Fuentes, Umbigo, Lisbon, PT (Magazine Exhibition)
2024 - The Scar as Archive, Stigmata, UK
2023 - Trans Sexuality #12, Almanac Jounal of Trans Poetics, FL
2023 - A Cloud that Bites, zweikommasieben #27, CH
2023 - How to Sleep Faster #13: Empathetic Earth, Arcadia Missa Publications, UK
2022 - Music and Propaganda #22, Arts of the Working Class, DE
2022 - Of the Rancidly Beautiful, Underneath There, UNCHORUS 2023, Freelands Foundation, UK
2021 - Metamorphosis: On future bodies & living identities, Nieuwe Vide, NL
2021 - Energy Systems, Well Projects, UK
2021 - Membering the Night Witches, Love Spells and Rituals for Another World, UK
2019 - Issue 10: Glossolalia, SALT. Editorial, UK
2018 - life/forms 3.0 | Wild Combination, Flat Time House, UK