Latest News from LouiseGlobal Village exhibition
Entering "Sheep Counting"
The exhibition in the Grand Church of Alkmaar is from 23 January till 31 January 2010.
Sheep Counting
Current works - Mouse Spotters Guide Paper Mouse project SHOW booked for all of June 2010 at the Washington Gallery Penarth, South Wales.Where Ever The Need Summer 2009 - click on the images to see a larger version.
These Two images, Eb (male) Flo (Female) were created from Digital photographs of various states of water observed around the Wye Valley, UK. The River Wye at Monmouth, the River Lyd weir at Lydney Old Docks, water soaked mud of the River Wye at low tide, Frost on a car window, Snow in Chepstow, water condensation on a window with rainbow colours from the flowers outside shinning through the glass. http://www.wherevertheneed.org.uk Wherever the Need invites Artists to do something special for the 2.5 billion people who live their lives without access to adequate sanitation. Create one of our sets of toilet people, the same ones you see on toilet doors around the country. Exhibitions of our toilet people art works will be displayed around Bath, alongside signs illustrated by school children, celebrities and other patrons, to raise awareness of the following facts: The artwork will be sold by auction on International Toilet Day attracting lots of media attention for us, and the money raised from your artwork will contribute to providing sanitation and safe water for communities in India and Africa.
Shown in - Doing Strange Things to Toys - Kitchen Gallery Runcorn, UK. Created for and shown in Doing Strange Things to Toys, Kitchen Gallery, Runcorn. The Toy cat in the image is mine and I have had her - Smoky - from the age of one. I have photos of her with all her fur - now mostly gone. I became a soft Toy Designer and wonder if it was because I loved this toy cat so very much - I thought she looked Real - and as we were NOT allowed pets by my parents - she certainly filled the gap. However - and this is the truth of the matter, I now have seven cats and the one called "Sooky" cat has the same beautiful soft grey colour of my toy cat... BUT she is the one that is sick straight after her food because she eats so quickly, she is the one that gets locked into a room over night, she is the one that jumps onto the table and knocks over a plate of food, she is the one that bounces onto my head at night and wakes me. She is the Bane of my Life!!!
Waving to New York The three pictures below were created for the SpreadArt.net competition entry to the Rhonda Schaller Studio Gallery... theme “Small Rays of Hope and Fragments of a Larger Idea”
FLYING ANT DAY
http://www.rhondaschallerchelsea.com ..."an event during the Holiday season to benefit and celebrate our community, our artists, our visions." The gallery will be designed with small “windows” - a lattice grid of 10” x 10” frames installed on the walls, within which artists may present their “small rays of hope”. Max dimensions up to 10” x 10”. *Dear Rox and 808, from Louise Gains Dec 2007. Here below are my thoughts on the EVENT. So – I’m ready and waiting and willing – that is, I’m aware that this is a Great way to start something. I am also aware that this IS a START of SOMETHING. After all, how many times have I in my life spoken live and been seen live in New York?? Not so difficult if you live in that city – but I don’t. I live in a smallish town on the edge of South Wales, UK. It’s a nowhere place as far as headline events are concerned. We have a castle and a Tesco supermarket store. Those two things stand for the main happenings here, and there’s two thousand years between them – so no, not a lot happens, as you can tell. I have checked the Time difference – five hours ahead. Hang on, are THEY ahead or are WE?
That’s it – got it - the sun rises in the East, yes, over China – so then it reaches Britain – yes, then it goes on over the water and reaches America… yes! Well I’m ready. I log in. There is the site with its displays and small video screens. Images are moving on them. What! Everyone is there already -- catch up! What’s happening? How do I get my new webcam to work? It isn’t! – Hell! I’ll have to use the one in the computer - that means I won’t be able to set up my 30inch screen as I wanted. Don’t panic – there’s plenty of time. I hear Rox wishing everyone good luck, other voices echo that. I say, “Good Luck!” and hear my own voice repeat to me a second later, bouncing back from halfway around the world... There’s a painting being done on one screen, a face, top right – who’s that? I feel a bit like the new girl late to a party. Music. I can hear music. I start my bit: I have my laptop swiveled to face my big screen, and now I call up one of my digital artworks and start to play through the layers which the picture is composed from. I can see on the site my picture stepping back in time, un-making itself as I remove the layers. First a tree disappears, then another, then the blackbirds one by one leave the screen – then I bring them back again. Oh! Look, that’s Lee – Lee Boyd - he’s from Ireland and he’s there – there in New York, lucky him! I remember the last time I felt like this – I was watching the Apollo 11 moon landing and hearing the voices getting and giving technical instructions, the buzzes and the blips, the echoes of voices out of sync and the pictures fading and coming back into focus. Wonderful. Amazing. Back to the 808 site and there are lots of people in the gallery, I can hear them. All this art from different countries, Roxanne has really helped to Spread Art around the world. I am making new friends in the process. This is simply the best, I love all this Art and this Science and it is all coming together - we are so lucky to have this technology. I am so happy!* What a Dream Showing at Galeriis SooSoo, SOO TN. 4, Tallinn, Estonia http://www.whatadreamcatalogue.blogspot.com/ http://www.kalev.ee/est/?news=934868&Kunsti-vormi-valatud-unistused-SooSoo-galeriis#commented http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/drupal/?q=node/27515 My daughter draws her way into her future...
"My work lately has been digital, I love using a camera to catch moments during my day and then using my Macbook computer to take the image further. So I had been planning to use a picture of my youngest daughter. She had been drawing out her ideas for her Fashion homework, and she was talking about her hope for a future in the Fashion Industry. She is worried as it is a highly competitive business and she wants to get noticed and have a good career. She looked tired and lost - I took her photo - it melted my heart. I remember wanting so badly to go to Art School - wanting to be the best I could - to show the world how brilliant I was!!! So I thought that I could use that photo to show those feelings I remembered. I re-created the photo in Photoshop on my computer, adding twists of flowers and curvy lines. Then I planned to enter that digital creation into the show. Why then is there a conventional painting in the show instead of that Digital Art Work? Well, I had heard another young hopeful voice( Lea’s on the Skype Internet Line ) asking me to send “Real Art” if at all possible as she feared that most submissions might be prints. She so wanted to see “Paintings” with texture and REAL paint. I heard her Hopes for a good show - she also has her dreams and ambitions - and so I thought “Yes I will. I will submit a “Real Picture” in paint.” So there it is - I changed my Art Work from Digital to Real - my daughter’s photo is now melted and transformed into a painted image. I hope that when people see it they will understand what it means --- which is - any and every young girl’s hope and dreams for the Future." Showing at Galeriis SooSoo, SOO TN. 4, Tallinn, Estonia 24 April to 14 May 2008 22May 08 Look here for Ship of Fools Show, Yara, Australia http://shipoffools-shipofhope.blogspot.com As a part of their major project Julie Collins and Derek John hosted The Ship of Fools – Ship of Hope, One World. exhibition first in Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford, Melbourne Australia. 16th June – 6th July. www.yarrasculpturespace.com.au Secondly, at The Ballarat Mining Exchange, Ballarat Australia 2nd – 10th August in conjunction with their major solo exhibition – Ship of Fools Artists from all around the world were invited to become involved by making a Ship of Fools or a Ship of Hope to illustrate their concerns for global warming and the consequences of mankind’s development. Interested artists were sent a small ship in the mail, ready to paint, written upon, filled or made into a sculptural object. All the ships were the same size, (30cm length) but each artist used the vessel as a vehicle to create their own message and art work. Louise Gains entry in the Ship of Fools exhibition - Yara, Australia.
Statement: Ship FOR Fools. We are amassing ALL the rubbish of the world – BE CAREFULL !!! It might sink the boat. I photographed my collection of plastic animals found in a charity shop, on my studio floor. I then used Photoshop to change the look to what I hoped would suggest a mythic and age-old feeling. I was delighted to find a Phoenix in the collection and a few dinosaurs and fable-beast. !!! I then took a trip to my local supermarket and photographed the "bottle bank" - all that plastic wrapped up in a net. I thought of the nets which fishermen use to catch fish and felt there was a sadness to a net full of plastic. So - Here is a Ship FOR Fools, We are using up our precious world and filling the only Ship we have with rubbish. Inside of the ship showing plastic rubish in a net
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