Lou Winwood (b.1972) is an emerging visual artist working in mixed media collage and acrylic. Following an extensive career as a creative director, fashion editor, stylist, fashion designer and shop owner, she completed a BA in Fine Art Mixed Media (First Class Hons.) at the University of Westminster in 2023.

 

Based at her studio in Hertfordshire, Lou's work draws from what she terms "corrupt nostalgia" and a long held fascination with the detritus of life. Working from old photographs, printed ephemera and discarded materials, Lou creates portraits and collages filled with colour and pattern that visually echo the haphazard way memories come to mind to inform the present. Lou’s work examines how ethical codes and norms change over decades by combining disparate images, textures and materials to create disorientating narratives that are simultaneously humourous and disturbing.