Louis Blue Newby
“Losing Braincells (Danny)”, 2024
Crisco, dust, UV print and oil paint on wooden panel in perspex frame
20 x 16.25 x 2 in. (51.1 x 41.1 x 5.4 cm)
Louis Blue Newby
“Losing Braincells (Corrine)”, 2024
Crisco, dust, UV print and oil paint on wooden panel in perspex frame
20 x 16.25 x 2 in. (51.1 x 41.1 x 5.4 cm)
Working with print, collage, sculpture and drawing, Louis Blue Newby destabilises the clinical and sanitary mechanisms of traditional archiving. In its place, his work reconstitutes archival materials as messy and uncontained modes of longing. Often framing his work within the language of public space, objects such as cork boards, notice boards and light boxes become conduits for such desire, a desire to consume and be consumed publicly.
Louis Blue Newby
“Losing Braincells (Stella)”, 2024
Crisco, dust, UV print and oil paint on wooden panel in perspex frame
20 x 16.25 x 2 in. (51.1 x 41.1 x 5.4 cm)
Louis Blue Newby
“Losing Braincells (Freddy)”, 2024
Crisco, dust, UV print and oil paint on wooden panel in perspex frame
20 x 16.25 x 2 in. (51.1 x 41.1 x 5.4 cm)
“Losing Braincells” is a series of composite printed and painted works on wooden panels, formed through an intricate layering of found pornographic and erotic imagery. The series’ title takes its name from the online slang term “gooning”, a sexual practice in which an individual masturbates or edges themselves to such an extent they enter a trance-like stupor.
Louis Blue Newby
“Losing Braincells (Vin)”, 2024
Crisco, dust, UV print and oil paint on wooden panel in perspex frame
20 x 16.25 x 2 in. (51.1 x 41.1 x 5.4 cm)
Louis Blue Newby
“Losing Braincells (Marie)”, 2024
Crisco, dust, UV print and oil paint on wooden panel in perspex frame
20 x 16.25 x 2 in. (51.1 x 41.1 x 5.4 cm)
Whilst screen printed in the transparent material Crisco - a brand of vegetable fat historically used as lubricant within gay male sexual subcultures - the faces in the works are made visible through the application of a fine dust blown across the surface of the print. Grease and dust - substances that sit in contradiction to traditional archival practices - are rerouted by Newby as the primary materials for revealing and concretising an image.
Louis Blue Newby
“Losing Braincells (Brad)”, 2024
Crisco, dust, UV print and oil paint on wooden panel in perspex frame
20 x 16.25 x 2 in. (51.1 x 41.1 x 5.4 cm)
Louis Blue Newby
“Losing Braincells (Tessa)”, 2024
Crisco, dust, UV print and oil paint on wooden panel in perspex frame
20 x 16.25 x 2 in. (51.1 x 41.1 x 5.4 cm)
Louis Blue Newby
“Losing Braincells (Donna)”, 2024
Crisco, dust, UV print and oil paint on wooden panel in perspex frame
20 x 16.25 x 2 in. (51.1 x 41.1 x 5.4 cm)
Louis Blue Newby
“Losing Braincells (Eli)”, 2024
Crisco, dust, UV print and oil paint on wooden panel in perspex frame
20 x 16.25 x 2 in. (51.1 x 41.1 x 5.4 cm)
