Hi! I am RedLouise. I'm an interdisciplinary Illustrator based in London & Taiwan. I love exploring diverse approaches of research process and my own language of image making. Studying and keeping caterpillars from a young age developed my fascination with ecology. One of my practice aids in transforming scientific information of living organisms and their environment into illustration. My research is about the investigation of sustainability and environmental education in relation to post-modern world art education, particularly in printmaking. I run workshops to demonstrate the research practically. I desire to be in the education system, utilising teaching as my research. I want to create more pathways and inspire innovative thinking within illustration in my home country. Simultaneously, raising social awareness of sustainability in printmaking through visual communication will always be my mission.
The Untold Tales: Red Line This book written in an autobiographical tone. I wrote a growth story that related with Red Line. Red line is an object and it symbolises love and marriage in Chinese culture. The red line seems to be not just an object, but also a string that connects and links every stage of my life. The story can reflect and show Taiwanese thoughts, ideologies, views, culture, education, traditions and lifestyle. And the process of my growth of being a girl. Plus, it reflects how I respond to the western culture after studying here and meeting friends. This is a book exploring the connection and interaction between abstract mono-prints, layouts and emotional text.
The Untold Tales: Red Line experimentations and writing drafts
Biodiversity Zines Part One: The Food Chain These are a series of playful, colourful and experimental zines focusing on ecology, biodiversity, environmental education and sustainable printmaking.
Biodiversity Zines Part One: The Food Chain These are a series of playful, colourful and experimental zines focusing on ecology, biodiversity, environmental education and sustainable printmaking.
I Illustrate Ecology: Interdisciplinary Magazines Taking the visualisation of pollination as a starting point, I want to explore a more meaningful, deeper and interdisciplinary context. There is a connection and an interaction between every single element in ecology. Pollination is definitely an important factor in sustaining and diversifying the ecosystem since plants are the base of food chain. The whole ecosystem is celebrating pollination and that is absolutely fascinating. Overall, that is why I want to illustrate pollination and ecology. Magazine is a good way of bringing My mix-media work and scientific ecological and environmental educational writing together as a role and perspective of an illustrator.
I Illustrate Ecology: Interdisciplinary Magazines idea sketches, risograph and ceramics making
Trash into Treasure: Sustainability in MonoprintA Green Printing And Collage One Day Workshop This workshop was run in July, 2020. The 26 participants were 7 year-old kids at primary school located in Taichung city, Taiwan.
Green Printing And Postcards Making Workshop This workshop was collaborated with Nature Education Society of Taiwan with 7 students around 17 year-old. We created postcards with prints, collage and native plants. This would be a part of remote cultural and environmental message knowledge exchange with educators and students in Kerala, India.
Kingston University PRINT CLUB! Plaster Print Workshop This workshop was run in January 2020 with 25 students studying illustration animation at Kingston School of Art. The workshop was designed, organized and prepared by Ayumi Yanagi, Mai Nakijima, Somin Jun and I.
Louise Hung and Mai Nakajima We Don't Like Collaboration, But...
Louise Hung and Mai Nakajima We Don't Like Collaboration, But... Collaborations are exciting and fun, and they stimulate creativity; however, they’re not always that perfect during the process. Together, we made a podcast, we painted with homemade natural inks, made collages, and created both a digital and a physical book. We made a website that documents all the different ways that we collaborated in order share this experience with the students in our home countries: Taiwan and Japan. We added playful interactive elements and online workshops into the website to engage people and stimulate further collaboration. When people see how healthy collaborations look from our website, we believe their collaborations will be more successful!
Louise Hung and Mai Nakajima 'The Moonlight Club: Not There, But Still There.' This was a small exhibition exploring place referring to Joy Division, The Moonlight Club, 1980 By Scott King.It showed the process and feelings during our research, revealing, collecting evidence and figuring out the place. The Moonlight Club once was the most crowded and popular place for gigs to perform in 1970s-1980s, located in the basement of The Railway Hotel, London NW6 2LU. The basement isn't open to public anymore, and the ground floor of The Railway has been refurbished into modern bar with latest entertaining facilities and broadcasting pop music.
Louise Hung and Mai Nakajima 'The Moonlight Club: Not There, But Still There.' The only evidence we could tell what the basement aka The Moonlight Club look like was the floor plan of the building hanging on the wall in the bar. The Moonlight Club wasn't there anymore, but, the place is there, the memories, the extraordinary histories and our respect to all of its past are still there.
12 Zodiac Signs 2021 Commissioned by Marie Claire Taiwan The cat signs can bee seen on Marie Claire Taiwan's social media posts and printed magazines monthly in 2021.
2020 Invitation Submissions Selected Images: Invited by Marie Claire Taiwan Illustrations from 2 articles about traveling back Taiwan during the pandemic and the quarantine visual diary. Both articles went very popular after released.
2020 White Stuff Graphic Tee Compitition: Home Sweet Home? The design was released around September 2020. The sustainable tee could be found in all White Stuff stores in the UK and their online store.
Lockdown Trilogy 2020 City of Depression 2020 Taoyuan International Illustration Competition: Honourable Mention The particular texture made with monochrome illustration and printmaking skills creates a depressing atmosphere as if the city is covered with a layer of smog and dust. At the beginning of the lockdown, with all various pressure of the epidemic and the loneliness and anxiety of being isolated from people, the only connection with the outside world is the small window in the room. The window is like an image, with people leaning against them. Their facial expressions tell their melancholy. The artist tells the stories in a more subtle and dedicated way. For instance, the bars of the window symbolize imprisonment, as well as the poured coffee, the withering flowers, the bird and dog caged indoor, the lifeless street, and the bare trees.
Lockdown Trilogy 2020 The Practice of Solitude 2020 Taoyuan International Illustration Competition: Honourable Mention The soothing blue color in the picture resembles the starry sky as well as the deep sea, symbolizing the tranquility of people’s minds. Since we cannot go out, then listen to your inner voice! Someone picked up a paintbrush; someone plays a musical instrument. People in quarantine regain their hobbies and learn to stay alone. They even start to keep dairy cattle. The artist uses warm-toned colors to embellish the work. The details make the works more narrative and interesting. The use of photographs from the old time in the computerbased illustration creates rich postures and body movements. Coffee is refilled as if the viewers can smell the scent from the image. Birds are coming to the windows to stay with people. New buds are emerging, and everything and people’s heart have come back to life.
Lockdown Trilogy 2020 You Are Not Alone As spring arrives prosperously, the earth is colourful. We can still keep in touch with the outside world without going out. We can maintain social distance by opening the windows and wave our hands with each other, and listen to the sound of insects and birds together. We are not alone at all. Some people greeted through the megaphone, some held concerts through windows, and some people planted beautiful flowers from the window. The coffee drinker finally didn’t have to enjoy it alone. Warm pink colour palettes create a feeling of carnival. Surrounded by dense trees, the birds no longer stay quietly. The wires and birds in the picture are like sheet music and notes. Have you heard the melody of this work?
