Details
| First Name | Louise |
| Last Name | Todd |
| Username | louise-todd |
| Website | |
| Region | Edinburgh & The Lothians |
| Disciplines | Drawing, Painting |
| Themes | Figurative, Identity, Narratives |
Statement
| Statement | I am a visual artist and academic based in Edinburgh. My art practice and research interests are complementary and inform one another. In my artwork I work primarily with drawing and painting. I approach my practice through observational research and existing and imagined contexts. I then develop series of paintings through gradual layers of transparent oil paint and mediums. I am particularly interested in narratives of visual culture in tourism, and the tourist gaze thesis. In my artwork, I observe people and places through both historical and contemporary lenses of tourism; as a phenomenon; and as a set of visual practices, including tourism photography and sightseeing. My artwork intersects how we gaze as tourists, with curiosity, and through a series of reflexive discourses, and the artist’s gaze, as a reflective viewer and researcher. Through presenting a reflected artist’s gaze upon tourists, I aim to capture how we experience and perform tourism when we engage with other tourists, alongside touristic spaces, and places. |
Biography
| Biography | I studied at Glasgow School of Art in the 1990s, where I completed a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, Sculpture, followed by an MPhil in Art and Design in Organisational Contexts. Since then, I have worked in a variety of roles across the arts, festivals, events, and media. I undertook a PhD between 2007 and 2010 at Edinburgh Napier University. This was concerned with image and identity in the context of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as the world’s leading event tourism phenomenon. I continue to work as an academic at Edinburgh Napier, and my art and research are complementary processes and practices. Having returned to painting and the study of art relatively recently, I have exhibited my work, and have also presented aspects of this at academic research seminars and conferences. Education PhD: Festival images: brand image and stakeholders’ brand relationship types at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh Napier University (2011) M.Phil: Art and Design in Organisational Contexts, Glasgow School of Art (1996) BA (Hon): Fine Art (Sculpture), Glasgow School of Art (1994) Exhibitions Paradigms, Whitespace, Edinburgh (August 2024). Now and Then: Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) Centenary Show (Part 2), Dalkeith palace, Edinburgh (August 2024). Summer Salon, Detail Framing and Gallery, Edinburgh (August-September 2024). Right Here Now Edinburgh, Gallery 1, Edinburgh Palette, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh (June 2024). Then and Now: Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) Centenary Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (February-March 2024). Paradigms, Coburg House Gallery, Edinburgh (October 2023). Paradigms, Whitespace, Edinburgh (July-August 2023) Arion Art, group exhibition, Gallery 1, Edinburgh Palette, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh (June 2023) Royal Scottish Academy, 197th Annual Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh (May-June 2023) Paradigms, Whitespace, Edinburgh (October-November 2022) Arion Art, summer exhibition, The Life Room Gallery, Edinburgh (August 2022) Arion Art, group exhibition, Gallery 1, Edinburgh Palette, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh (June 2022) Arion Art, summer exhibition, The Life Room Gallery, Edinburgh (August 2021) Arion Art, group exhibition, Gallery 1, Edinburgh Palette, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh (June 2021) Chroma 13a, group exhibition, Torrance Gallery, Edinburgh (July 2020)
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