Inspired by cartography, both celestial and terrestrial, Louisa Boyd’s work considers the persistent human desire to belong. She considers environment and how we navigate place in her pieces. Her work features celestial symbols, sacred geometry and map-like imagery to describe a sense of place. The abstract cartographic images in Louisa’s work suggest navigation of both the physical, material world as well as more abstract concepts of finding our way and establishing a notion of home. Traditional tools and methods are used to allude to belonging from a cultural perspective. The sculptural forms in Boyd's works rely on sacred geometry for their structure, using the elements of mathematics that underpin the fabric of the world we exist within. By layering abstract, drawn imagery made with traditional drawing tools and printmaking processes with more abstract painterly marks, organic marbled patterns and geometric forms, the outcomes are a visual fusion of historic and contemporary ideas. 

Louisa is a multidisciplinary artist who works with paint, print and sculpture. Her pieces are included in public and private collections worldwide and she is recognised regularly through prestigious juried exhibitions. This year, exhibitions include the Wells Contemporary, Paperworks at the RWA and RE Small and Mighty at Bankside Gallery. She has been exhibited on a number of occasions over recent years at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, featured as part of London Art Fair's Encounters and part of an international exhibition at the Escher museum, Escher in the Palace in The Netherlands. She was awarded the Great Art Prize at the Flourish Award for printmaking in 2020 and the Kunstprenteverket Award at Printfest 2025. In 2023 Louisa received a scholarship from the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) to develop her printmaking by making large ambitious works with etching techniques.