Website

http://www.louisiem.com

Relationship status

single

College / University

University of Glasgow (1990-95, M.A. English Lit); University of Leeds (2003-4 Philosophy); University of Sunderland (2005-7 M.A. Fine Art); University of Sunderland (2007-8 M.A. Curatorial Practice)

Program

See above. M.A. Fine Art graduation 2007

Graduation

16 July 2007

Member type

Artist, Curator

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Conceptual, Digital, Drawing, Film, Installation, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Video

I am...

predominantly a single parent. I am a visual artist, I still paint but I refuse to be defined as "a painter". I am currently studying for an M.A. in Curatorial Practice at Sunderland University.

About my artwork

Overlap between the frivolous/ absurd/ playful with the serious scientific / philosophical questions in life. Deconstruction. Extinction of binary oppositions. Screenprinting. Painting. Marbling. Filming. Cutting. Nintendo monkeys, old technology, tapes, woodgrain & log cabins. Picnic tables a lot these days. Painting.

Artists I like

Gerhard Richter
Sigmar Polke
Franz Ackermann
Thomas Scheibitz love love love
Herbert Bayer
John Cake & Darren Neave (aka The Little Artists)
Damien Hirst
Karl Hobbs
Dieter Roth
Goya

Interests

My children.
Derrida.. Baudrillard.. Sartre
The Velvet Underground. Kraftwerk. Experimental music
Radio waves.

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

Tom Poultenay at Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, Leeds until the end of this week!

Yoshitomo Nara / Graf at The Baltic, Gateshead

Eric Bainbridge at MIMA.

The Little Artists at Another Roadside Attraction, unit 5.5 Bayford Business Park, Bayford Street, London







Cory Arcangel anywhere / the internet!

The centre of the artworld is

nowhere and everywhere