Lou Conboy is a photographic artist based in Hobart, Tasmania. While in residency at the Q Bank Gallery during the month of January 2020, Lou and Emmalie huddled together in the very full bedroom behind the studio and took the opportunity to chat. Lou speaks on her long standing relationship with The Myth of Sisyphus, the complexities of identity, the wild and untamable, the trepidation and thrill of experimenting with rare and unusual material, her childhood connections to the Tasmanian West Coast and standing her ground in Berlin.
“Embracing the absurd is a leading philosophy in my practice. Clashing and combining costume, landscape and stories to reveal and question bigger truths about how we live and how we interact with nature. The characters I create and photograph are spirits, residues of our combined pasts. They don’t really belong anywhere except in the anachronistic dream landscapes of photography. My ambition is to attempt to understand these dislocated wanderers and to create space where they can live, where we can safely contemplate them.” – Lou Conboy for The Henry Jones Art Hotel website
Lou can be found outside –
Lou Conboy will be showing work at Contemporary Art Tasmania, North Hobart, in an exhibition called Circumbinary Orbits: An Unsteady Compass. The exhibition opens on October 2nd, 2020 and runs until October 18th, 2020. Lou developed An Unsteady Compass while in residence at Q Bank Gallery, Queenstown, Tasmania.
Register for the opening event @ https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/120493119163
More information available @ https://contemporaryarttasmania.org/programs/circumbinary-orbits-an-unsteady-compass/
Lou can be found on the internet –
@louconboy (Instagram)
Website: https://cargocollective.com/louconboy/lou-conboy
Lou Conboy dressed in her thrift shop speed-skating bodysuit, witch nose and felt boots. 
Lou and Tom’s daughter’s (Mabel) very own studio space. 
Lou’s battleworn and precious rock that was temporarily stored in the Q-Bank gallery’s woodshed. 
Lou’s battleworn and precious rock that was temporarily stored in the Q-Bank gallery’s woodshed. 
The facade of the Q-Bank Gallery, windows drawn by Tom O’Hern (@tomohernia instagram), Lou’s partner and fellow resident at Q-Bank during January. These photos were taken on a roll of film that I accidentally snapped while I was visiting Lou. Lou totally saved me and rescued the film in her dark bag. 
The facade of the Q-Bank Gallery, windows drawn by Tom O’Hern (@tomohernia instagram), Lou’s partner and fellow resident at Q-Bank during January. These photos were taken on a roll of film that I accidentally snapped while I was visiting Lou. Lou totally saved me and rescued the film in her dark bag. 
The facade of the Q-Bank Gallery, windows drawn by Tom O’Hern (@tomohernia instagram), Lou’s partner and fellow resident at Q-Bank during January. These photos were taken on a roll of film that I accidentally snapped while I was visiting Lou. Lou totally saved me and rescued the film in her dark bag. 
All three images are stills from the Sisyphina series footage. Image credit to Lou (@louconboy) 
All three images are stills from the Sisyphina series footage. Image credit to Lou (@louconboy) 
All three images are stills from the Sisyphina series footage. Image credit to Lou (@louconboy) 
These photographs were taken with the infrared film Lou discusses in the episode from her series Sisyphina. Image credit to Lou (@louconboy) 
These photographs were taken with the infrared film Lou discusses in the episode from her series Sisyphina. Image credit to Lou (@louconboy)