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Louise Elizabeth Penn Chapman
After graduating from an HND in Theatre Design (Costume) from Mabel Fletcher’s in Liverpool Louise has worked professionally as a costume maker, cutter and supervisor with companies including the Royal Shakespeare Company, Liverpool Playhouse, Aardman Animations, Frantic Assembly and the Stephen Joseph Theatre with Alan Ayckbourn.
Louise Chapman was Birmingham City University’s Course Leader for the BA Hons Costume Design and Practice course where she evolved Knowledge Exchange (KE) projects working with companies including The National Trust, Gres Portela School of Samba, Rio de Janeiro, and recently Motionhouse as part of Commonwealth Games in Birmingham 2023.
Prompted by her discovery of an assemblage of dress bequeathed by Kate Elizabeth Bunce, (1856-1927) the late Pre-Raphaelite artist she was awarded an AHRC funded practice- based Ph.D. in 2016 with Amy de la Haye as her director of studies in the Centre for Fashion Curation, London College of Fashion. Her Ph.D. entitled Costuming as an Authorial Practice: Reading and Re-Authoring an Assemblage of Every Day Women’s Aesthetic Dress from 1795-1885 is investigating how the contract for participation might be renegotiated between everyday historical dress and the spectator within encounters or exhibitions of historical dress.
Louise is currently the Course Leader on the BA Hons Costume for Performance course at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.
Contact: London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, 40 Lime Grove, London, W12 8AE, United Kingdom.