RedLouise Illustration Portfolio

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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.

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.

**Publication: The Food Chain (spreads)**

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 the 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.

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.

**Collaboration: We don't Like Collaborations, But...**

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 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 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.