A photograph of Louise standing infant of a series of Motae photographs. She is looking down at the camera, her arms behind her back. She is wearing black polo neck, black trousers, has shoulder length hair, white skin and silver earrings.

Louise McLachlan is a Disabled artist and arts worker based in Edinburgh. Her practice advocates for the representation of Disability, particulalry across contemporary art, art education, and archival spaces, centring lived experience and access as both subject and method.

McLachlan left school at fifteen and did not follow a traditional art school or degree pathway. This experience directly informs her practice and underpins a strong alignment with alternative education, access-led learning, and entry level routes into the arts. Her work challenges normative structures within the cultural sector and advocates for more inclusive, sustainable ways for Disabled people to enter, remain, and thrive within the arts.

Her roles as an artist and arts worker are integrally intertwined, shaped by a core ethos of inclusivity, representation, and structural change. Alongside her creative practice, McLachlan delivers artist talks, workshops, and events focused on Disability, access, and lived experience within art and cultural spaces.