Louise Saxton-

Louise Saxton has a major interest in culture; there is always an element that is from a different culture that is really intriguing. Louise did an under grad in print making where she showed us charcoal on gessoed paper the images where around images from women’s weekly in the 60’s. She only kept the clothing of the textiles of theses because of the room they were taking at her home. Which I really liked seeing it was more traditional style drawing.

 

The people that Louise drew inspiration from was Marcel Duchamp; Meret Oppenheim; Helen Fuller; Andy Warhol; Elizabeth Gower are just some of the people that would make you understand the people behind her work. The research of theses people and how powerful and personal some of there art is makes you understand more where Louise draws from culture. 

2001-Enevelop which was  an 500 piece installation, at Linden, St Kilda Center. It was in response that was inspired by “The Rüstem  Pasha Mosque” where she used recycled business envelopes embossel with lace onto rag paper.  Islamic blue and white tiling secret from Japanese clothing lining. The envelops all have different unique patterns on them. 

2004 ArtPlay-, which is a children’s, art space where artists come in and teacher children something about their practice. She taught the children the skill of embossing, which was the technique behind her envelope installation. The children got a template that they cut out and used recycle envelopes then embossed and laced onto rag paper. They stuck them on the wall and you can see with the photo that Louise brought in that they were all different even with them using the same template. 

 

 

Louise went to Malaysia for a month where she did a small journal with 70 drawings that were around the studio she was staying at. In 2007 Tim Craker and her did an exhibition that was called dot-net-dot-my. They both shared an interest in Malaysia’s culture and both drawing on different elements for the exhibition-10 large scaled endanger specimen and tradition embroidery and lace silk prints. Related to the cross culture- Starflower where the Islamic star is used for the endanger flower.

 

I liked seeing the different ideas and where they came from and how different styles worked together in an idea.