Louise Mackenzie is an artist, researcher, teacher, project manager and curator, making gallery, site-specific and participatory work across installation, sound, film and performance. Having trained and worked for 10 years as a psychologist and management consultant, Louise is at home working collaboratively and is a passionate advocate of interdisciplinary working methods.

Her research is concerned with articulating human-nonhuman relationships through process, chance, appropriation and translation. In addition to her own art practice, Louise is founder and curator of interdisciplinary pop-up cinema programme, Black Box.

She also develops and runs participatory workshops and events across institutional and public settings. She is a member of the Cultural Negotiation of Science research group, Northumbria University and holds a PhD in Fine Art from BxNU Institute of Contemporary Art.

Her artworks have been shown nationally and internationally including Pomona Museum of Art, California (USA), Unhallowed Arts, Perth (Australia), National Library of Spain, Madrid (Spain), BALTIC CCA and BALTIC39, Newcastle (UK), Summerhall, Edinburgh (UK), Lumiere Durham (UK), Fort Process, Newhaven (UK), Charles Darwin House, London (UK), Basement 6 Collective, Shanghai (China) and National Taiwan University of the Arts (Taiwan).