Louise’s work considers fabric as architectural form, creating spaces and textures with cloth that can be worn on the body, or can dress the home. Light and layering play integral roles to both, harnessing fabric’s compelling contradictions: a provider of structure and delicacy; weight and softness. Dedicated to using what is already in circulation, she sources widely from waste streams, seeking to transform material through process rather than sourcing new. She is driven by pushing textile and practice into unexpected outputs beyond the creation of clothing, dressing spaces that people can inhabit, creating pieces that adapt with time.


    Her first solo exhibition, Hinterlands, held at Mote 102, in Edinburgh, explored both a journey of materials and a personal history weaving behind the coastline of North Edinburgh. She has a cushion collaboration with contemporary craft gallery Bard, Scotland currently showcased in their Leith gallery, and her work was  included in Harvest: Contemporary Craft Fair at City Art Gallery, Edinburgh. In November 2025, she will be undertaking an awarded research residency at Cove Park.


    Originally trained in fashion design, Louise gained her first industry experience with Roksanda, and with sisters Faye and Erica Toogood. Having spent 5 years as an in-house designer across fashion product, Louise has freelanced consistently with Toogood on textile design, development and artwork since 2020.

    Louise also works widely on freelance design, make and research projects that explore the potential of alternative textile systems. In 2024 she co-curated, with Rachel Dedman the State of Fashion Biennale 2024: Ties that Bind. She has collaborated twice with artist Do Ho Suh, in 2021 and 2024, developing his speculative Survival Suit, the results of which were included in his 2025 retrospective at Tate Modern and at Art Sonje in Seoul. In 2022 she led material research for Cecilia Vicuña’s Brain Forest Quipu at Tate Modern, developing over 50 low-carbon footprint materials to create her 30m-tall hanging textile sculptures.

    In 2023 she worked with Faber Futures on their inaugural product for Normal Phenomena of Life: a bacteria-designed silk Exploring Jacket that was launched at London Design Festival and exhibited in the Design Museum, London. In 2021-23 she led R&D for ReWeave, a design studio focussed on creative, sustainable solutions to the textile industry’s waste streams. She has created costumes for contemporary dance, including Hofesh Shechter’s 2018 East Wall, as well as pieces performed at The Place, LABAN and Sadler’s Wells.

She has lectured widely at MA and BA level, and is a graduate of the Royal College of Art (2014) and Edinburgh College of Art (2012).

She works from her studio in Edinburgh, on an ever-evolving, varied assortment of projects and is always open to discussing a new collaboration or project.