Louis Macdonald

Fine Art MFA

Macdonald uses typography and imagery to subvert and poke fun at current events within society, popular culture and politics.

About

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Louis Macdonald B.1999, is a multi-disciplinary artist from Perth but studies at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee.
 
His work focuses mainly on current events within society, popular culture, and politics. Due to this and his enthusiasm to create, he can produce vast amounts of work in a short space of time. Largely through the medium of printmaking, he enjoys creating a mixture of abstract and direct images.
 
Usually involving typography, Louis likes to convey both commanding and subversive texts. This use of text can both be weaved into the imagery or contrast to display open ended prints.
 
Influences such as David Shrigley, Richie Culver and Darren Cullen have played a part in Louis' current body of work titled: “Mundane Pink Currency”.

WELCOME SIGN

A sign posed as a floor sign indicating the cost of the course

EXHIBITION DOOR

Risograph prints of the exhibition title MUNDANE PINK CURRENCY on the door

BIG WALL

mdf text that's stretched which reads as THIS IS A BIG WALL I WONDER WHAT I SHOUD SAY OH NO I RUNNING OUT OF SPA
side view of mdf text that's stretched which reads as THIS IS A BIG WALL I WONDER WHAT I SHOUD SAY OH NO I RUNNING OUT OF SPA
Another perspective of mdf text that's stretched which reads as THIS IS A BIG WALL I WONDER WHAT I SHOUD SAY OH NO I RUNNING OUT OF SPA

GET A GRIP

MDF board that's been spray painted with GET A GRIP written at a portrait orientation

BLAH x12 -SOME INFLUENCER

The other side of the same MDF board that's been spray painted with BLAH twelves times then signed off with SOME INFLUENCER

PINK MUNDANE CURRENCY- MIXED MEDIA PRINTS

Wide lens view of all the prints on the wall, with over fifty prints on display. A mixture of screen prints, digital prints, photography and risograph prints. A mixture of text based images, portrait based, and more abstracted works

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My work is available to buy, either through contacting my email address, or contacting me through my Instagram.

I will also be involved in IMPACT 12, an International printmaking conference which will be held in Bristol this September. There will be an exhibition in Bristol during this time and then one in  Dundee at a later date!

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