Louise Ashcroft, Nanarchy, performance view, Staffordshire Street, London, 2024. Backdrop by Prayer Room Gallery.

Louise Ashcroft’s practice responds to everyday experiences at shopping centres, trade fairs, museums, waste tips and protests.  Through interventions, they challenge the political, social and environmental conditions of these contexts and the ways they intersect with the ‘norms’ of late capitalism. Working independently and with others, they imagines alternative situations and stories through film, performance, writing and sculpture. 

Ashcroft's residency is a partnership between Wysing and St Peter’s School, Huntingdon. Over the last three years the partnership has brought an artist into the school to collaborate with the students and art department staff for a whole academic year. The project works with year 7 & 8 students (ages 11-13) as part of their Learn Aspire Exceed curriculum (LAE) where students get to discover subjects and skills beyond the core curriculum that are not prescribed or assessed.  

Louise Ashcroft lives and works in London. Recent projects include NO KIDS, The Swiss Church, London (2025); Burning Down the House: Rethinking Family, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2024); Bird Hut Sperm Bank, Viernulvier, Ghent (2023); Image Power, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (2020); and Speaking Fantasy to Power, Chaos Communication Congress, Leipzig (2019). Ashcroft is a co-founder of AltMFA, London’s first peer-led alternative art school, and was a Tate Schools Visits Artist in Residence (2015-16). She teaches at Goldsmiths University and is a member of the Goldsmiths Centre for Art & Ecology.