Artlessness and Quickfixation

This is a some footage I made in California in the summer as part of the Meta Residency and have just put together on youtube video editor, it is the first time I have used it and it is ok. I would like to be able to play with the timing more and work with the audio a lot more elaborately (I had to pick from their library of music, I couldn't even select silence!)

But... I think it is Ok so far and at least I can share it.

So here is the first video diagram in the manual I am compiling : 

'Quick Fixes'

And like so often, I need to take my own advice....

I have been a bit artless, let things landslide off the table, 

spending so much time navigating through the invisible world of possibility and impossibility.

Let loves down by being invisible.

But the friction of boredom and fast sprouting energy

and the intangible and the tangible start to merge, my sketches and plans appear in the everyday.

layered like a lovely projection on the real, arrows pointing excitedly and bowed lines connecting things

circles surrounding things to say 'ohhhh Yes'. Alliterative Titles next to things in Bold capitals, in Bold boxes. 

Don't get me wrong, I have been laughing, I have been cooking, I have been mothering, I have been lovering,

I have been singing and dancing and swimming in the sea and giving shoulder rides and cebebrating.

But I have also been a little hidden, slothy and blurred.

Time to wake up.

Pass the Glitter....

 

OPEN HOUSE

 

Dear Art lover!

After the show at the Hospital club, I now have a house full of art! So I thought I would make the most of it and show it off a bit.

So drop in!
There will be mulled wine flowing and filling the air with its hypnotic flavour.
Nibbles, until all nibbled.
A few spontaneous singsongs.
Walls filled with my work
all within the comfort of my lovely little home.

All welcome.

Look forward to seeing you!

x Louise Riley

ps. there are lots of fun things to do close by also so make a day of it!:

There is The Lee Valley Icerink 10 minutes down the road.
A lovely walk can be had at Wathamstow Marshes and along the River Lee.
There is the famous Chatsworth Road Saturday Market and there is a Santas Grotto and Christmas market a short bus ride away at St John-at-Hackney Church Gardens London E5 0PD.

ps. I will be selling prints and there will be an option to buy the more major works in installments as low as £40 a month! so you could have one of my mega embroideries in your home! yahooo!

The Culmination of Creation- Last chance people!

Hey Loves!

This show is coming down on Saturday!

If you want to see it this is your last chance!

24 Endell St, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9HQ

The Triptych I created in the window over the last month, 

Spacescape, Landscape, Cellscape. 

Altogether they make up:

'A Diorama of Creation From Scale 1-∞'

I feel quite emotional seeing them altogether, it has been quite the sewing marathon and stretching them up for the last part of the exhibition where the are displayed as a diorama was joyful, peaceful, liberating and sad all at the same time. I feel most drawn to the mountain, I just want to dive in that lake, feel the cool slippery water pass over me, swim to the otherside, walk through the forest and smell that damp piney smell and then climb that mountain. I want in. 

They are each 94" x 72", 

they can collaborate with the world and eachother, with light and shadow. 

When I lay the landscape over the spacescape it is instantly a nightscape:

 

I LOVE THAT

Below are the pieces in the other windows, you can see the difference by night and by day, 

ever evolving in a slightly wonky cycle.

This is the best shot I got by night, there will be better ones when I take it all out, the window is so reflective it is challenging to photograph. 

 Over and out. xx

Time Away

I'm taking tim, away to dream, I'm taking time out to clean up my room and when i clean up, my room will gleam, because dreams aren't as unreal as they seem...

I am taking thes rest of this week off, I started sewing a city and I hated it! After sewing the universe and the mountains it was torture to sew something inorganic. I have been wrestling all week, having crisis' of confidence and wildy wracking my brain for the solution, trying to make myself do it. 

And the conclusion is,

I cannot

do it.

There were so many signs including the fact that my costume for this week set of fire at my private view!
I'm ok, I'm ok, don't worry!

So I am putting full steam into the last phase which I am going to start this saturday and it is going to be BEAUTIFUL 

and I am 100% sure about it.

Until then I am going to make my costume

and do some washing, read books with my daughter, play the guitar and dance.

NEXT WEEKS SCHEDULE

Sat: 10.30-5.30

Mon: 10.30 - 3.30

Tues: 10.30 - 2.30

Wed: 1-8

Thurs: 10.30 - 3.30

Fri: 10.30 - 2.30

Sat: 1-8

See you next week! xx

Magma makes Mountains

Kaboom!

 

Sewing the mountainscape was heavenly, it is an arrow pointing at the heavens afterall,

and the mountain is a perfect metaphor for a life well lived, full of the struggle, the triumph, the slippery slope, 

While sewing the reflection of the mountain in the lake, I reflected on this idea.

Its all real in this surreal world of lateral literalness.

 

Sewing a landscape...

Sewing in Situ 1 from Louise Riley on Vimeo.

Today was my first day sewing an earthly landscape, I made a satisfactory start and had a lot of nice conversations, but if I look like I am frowning in the photo it is because I was. Quite a few people mentioned the length of my skirt and spoke quite loudly but indirectly about me, saying quite horrible things, completely discrediting my work. I was quite shocked really, I thought the outfit was so great it didn't even occur to me that it would upset anyone. The costumes are part of the concept. This week I am sewing an earthly landscape and am dressing as elements that have created some of the wonderous landscapes we know today. Do you really think anything says storm better than this?

Last day of Sewing the Universe

I will be in situ from about 3.30pm till 10pm today, there is more work in the lobby to see.

This is the last day I will be sewing the Universe.

Come and pop in.

The Hospital Club

24 Endell St, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9HQ