Louis Loveless Artistic Practice Blog

Reviewing Gemma-Lees Crit/Presentation 27.2.19 Talking too fast, rushing through it because she wants it to be over with sooner, not showing us slides for long enough. Said the word "artsy", a term I would recommend an artist never use, its unprofessional, it's never used in the realms of fine art, it doesn't really mean anything and its cringeworthy. She likes the idea of observing fabric wrapped around the body but removing the body, so the fabric echoes the shape but there is an absence of human. Tried watercolour and wasn't happy with the result, so she said she just wanted to try something else instead. I would usually suggest not giving up on a medium straight away after not liking the results immediately because things take time to learn, and you usually only start to enjoy the medium once you have mastered it somewhat. She started off her project making work that was more illustratory, then started to become more experimental with the process, whic...

I was part of group 1, the first group to present our work at the beginning of second year. I presented on Wednesday 24.10.18. I began by turning off the lights and talking through a brief slideshow I had prepared which went over the few main interests in my practice, with examples of work I had made, and artists that inspired me. The slides are included below: Although there was quite a bit of text on a few of the slides I didn't bother reading it all out to the room as I thought that would be boring, and if they wanted to they could read it themselves, so instead I talked directly to them as I left each slide up for a bit. I explained why each photo had been included and casually explained what my practice was about, and why I'm interested in certain things, and how I try to explore them, and what I want to go on to next. I kept the slideshow brief as leaving a room in semi darkness with one person warbling on ...

There are a number of things a gallery has to keep in mind when it comes to health and safety and liability, employers need to enforce proper health and safety procedures and have certain types of insurance protecting them against claims from employees or the public if accidents happen. According to AXA a French multinational insurance firm and the world's second-largest financial services company, a list of health and safety concerns a galleries should consider include the following: 1.The risk of slips, trips and wet floors 2. Lifting hazards 3. The risk of transporting art 4. Electrical risk 5. The risk of using knives 6. Lone working 7. Seating 8. Cloakroom 9. Delivery off-site 10: Large accumulation of people for events AXA lis ts these with descriptions of why these things are health and safety considerations and informs the reader what to do in order to mimimise any danger involved. This is a link to the full document:  https://axa-art.cdn.axa-contento-118412...

3.10.18 Introduction to module We were told to make a blog to log the process of creating a website and to document the planning and creation of the Woolwich exhibition and to build a website for our artistic practice. 17.10.18 Looking at artists websites and social media with Michael Pinsky 14.11.18 Looking at website building services with Michael Pinsky Were shown Wix and Wordpress and told to think about using the templates they offer in order to make process easier 5.12.18 Start building artist website In this session I moved my domain name from 1&1 to TSO Host, I started making my first website on Wix, I realised you couldn't install a Wix based website onto a TSO Host domain and I removed my IP servers from Wix to TSO Host 6.2.19 Digital Processing with Michael Pinsky Apparently we were going to be shown techniques to improve our photographs for documenting our work but we weren't. We were given A brief introduction to Google Sketch...

The next day I came in to clean up the wall around my paintings, and brought some oil paint and brushes, and matched the colours of the painting and painted in the four gaps that had appeared in the corners of my painting once I had stretched it, where the frame hadn't synced up with the border. I then spent the rest of the day helping other students hang their work. The morning of show day we were in from 11:00 to have a group crit. As usual I was pretty vocal, I enjoy crits and have grown over time to be comfortable talking about people's work to them in front of a big group. The first stage had most of the students in our year attending, but after a few hours of talking and concentrating and standing in a freezing cold warehouse building people started to splinter off, and by the time it got to my turn, there was around 5 people left, and I spoke about the two works and how they had come about, what I was trying to achieve, and took a few questions/piece of advice from tut...