Louie Wisby
Louie is a physical artist who was born in Naarm and lives on Gadigal land in Sydney. Louie graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2018. Since then she has pursued the creation of her own work and others. She has enjoyed working with Phillip Adams (Glory, Prelude), Jo Lloyd (Garden Dance, Bang Stop, FM:Air, Paris Was Yesterday), Geoffrey Watson (Rachael Wisby), Lee Serle (Time Portrait), Natalie Abbott (Re:Purpose the Mvmt), Nana Biluš Abaffy (A Bestiary of Unimaginable Animals) and Yuiko Masukawa (3).Her work has been presented by Temperance Hall (Please Do Not Move, Sybylla), Lucy Guerin Inc (Roses), The University of Melbourne (The Curtain Drops (The Jig is Up)) and Dance House (Judy and Me).
As a doctor of Chinese Medicine, Louie’s her recent explorations have taken place at the intersection of two knowledge systems. Through residencies at Critical Path in 2025, Louie is investigating the way that the Chinese Medicine conception of the bodies’ anatomy can be brought into the dancing body and co-exist (or clash) with other somatic practices.