Sculptor, painter, installations artist and teacher, born in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied at the university there, emigrated to England in 1961 and adopted British citizenship, 1967. Worked in an architectural office in London and studied under Anthony Caro at St Martin’s School of Art, 1961–5. He taught at St Martin’s, Maidstone School of Art and Royal College of Art between 1967–71; settled in New York, 1973; was a visiting lecturer, Victoria University, British Columbia, 1976–7, and visiting artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1977–8. Louw showed at Young Contemporaries from 1964; Kasmin Gallery, 1967; Stockwell Depot Show and Survey ’68: Abstract Sculpture, at Camden Arts Centre, both 1968; also abroad.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)