Join Guy Louden, finalist in the churchie emerging art prize 2020, in conversation with exhibition curator Talia Smith, exploring the themes and ideas embedded within him practice.
Guy Louden is an Australian artist and curator living in Fremantle/Walyalup and born in Toronto. Louden’s practice explores notions of capitalism, technology, and what the distant future may look like in the face of a societal breakdown. He has run and founded experimental galleries and curated major exhibitions. From 2014 to 2016 Louden was a director of Moana Project Space and in 2015 he co-founded and managed Success, a large-scale art space in Fremantle. Louden’s artwork has been exhibited in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, and online.
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