Louisa Fairclough lives and works in Bristol. She graduated from Slade School of Fine Art with MFA (Distinction) Fine Art Media in 2000. Using voice, light, ground and tidal water as material, her work takes the form of film loops, field recordings, performance, sound installations and drawings.

In 2016 she was awarded the CMIR Arnolfini bursary for the sculptural film 'Awkward Relaxed'. Her essay 'Sounding grief: The Severn Estuary as an emotional soundscape' co-authored with Owain Jones led to drawings and field recordings from the Thames​ that were shown at Estuary Festival (2016). 'Can People See Me Swallowing' showed at Contact Film Festival, Apiary Studios (2016), 'Absolute Pitch' and 'Composition for a Low Tide' were commissioned by Whitstable Biennale 2014, 'Jeannie' commissioned by Bristol New Music in 2014, 'Song of Grief' shown at Film in Space, Camden Art Centre (2013), 'Bore Song' acquired by CAS for The Wilson (2013) and recently shown at Rojas + Rubensteen Projects in Miami (2017). Louisa is Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes and University of Falmouth. She is passionate about experimental film, and co-founded BEEF in Bristol in 2015.