Lou Hubbard’s practice encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and the moving image to interrogate the nature of training, submission and subordination. Basic materials of domestic and institutional utility – very often personal objects – are tried and tested, then shaped into formal relationships. Objects are subjected to various modes of control and duress through which they must submit to her rules, and emotional resonances are drawn out through careful selection and placement of these found and readily-at-hand materials. Hubbard uses a combination of rudimentary and refined approaches in her practice,refusing any tendency toward embellishment or artifice; the ultimate effect of her works might be perversely humorous or strangely sentimental.
Lou Hubbard is represented by Sarah Scout Presents, Naarm/Melbourne.