For the Fremantle Biennale, I created a jet ski racing video game set in the canals of a future, flooded Fremantle. Designed for a site-responsive brief, the artwork was installed in a landmark building in the West End. This area is less than 1 metre above sea level and likely to be underwater by 2100 – despite this, the building is currently being redeveloped for high-end hospo and is one of many recently bought by business magnates. I made the artwork as crass and unhinged as possible to reflect the psychology of this moment – our inability to think outside of a capitalist ethos, even as its deficiency is plain to see.
P.S. On opening night the artwork was played by billionaire oligarch Twiggy Forrest, who owns property on the street.
🐬 Guy Louden, Wet End, 2025, custom video game software, computer hardware, stereo audio, lighting. This artwork was commissioned for the Biennale’s Room Service program, Nov 2025. It is based on an idea from Pascale Giorgi, and uses a 3D model provided courtesy the City of Fremantle.
Image 7: Thomas Earnshaw, courtesy Fremantle Biennale.
Guy Louden, RPG (Romantic Post-human Geography), 2025, modified Daggerfall (1994) videogame (live), miniature scenery modelling, computer.
For Dungeon Crawl, a group exhibition featuring Lyndon Blue, Pascale Giorgi, Guy Louden, Nurul Seddon, and Audrey Tan at Light Works, Boorloo Perth from 21 Feb 2025 – 2 March 2025.
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Guy Louden, DunGen, 2025, ASCII dungeon generator, miniature scenery modeling (foam, acrylic paint, dyed seaweed), computer.
For a Dungeon Crawl, 21 Feb 2025 – 2 March 2025 at Light Works, Boorloo Perth. Lyndon Blue, Pascale Giorgi, Guy Louden, Nurul Seddon, Audrey Tan.
Dungeon Crawl is an exhibition of new art involving dark fantasy, role playing and tabletop games – things like D&D, CRPGs and Warhammer. The artists in this show celebrate these aesthetics, consider their cultural meanings, and probe their metaphoric possibilities. Through sculpture, sound, drawing, and software art, they respond to practices like potion-making, world building, object enchantment, lore, grinding, and monster design.
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Fun new collaborative show coming up ~ 👹
Dungeon Crawl
Lyndon Blue, Pascale Giorgi, Guy Louden, Nurul Seddon, Audrey Tan
Dungeon Crawl is an exhibition of new art involving dark fantasy, role playing and tabletop games – things like D&D, CRPGs and Warhammer. The artists in this show celebrate these aesthetics, consider their cultural meanings, and probe their metaphoric possibilities. Through sculpture, sound, drawing, and software art, they respond to practices like potion-making, world building, object enchantment, magical monsters, and character creation.
Dungeon Crawl is presented in a literal underground dungeon, and paired with public programs including Dungeons & Dragons sessions and fantasy miniature painting workshops.
Opening 6pm Friday 21 Feb 2025. Continuing 12-4pm weekends until 2 March at Light Works, 112 Murray St, Boorloo Perth.
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Pic: Guy Louden, wip tbt, 2025, modified Daggerfall (1994) videogame, miniature scenery modelling materials.
Showing this and few other new little works in group show ☠️ Picturing the End ☠️
Opening Friday alongside the excellent Tiyan Baker, Joseph Breikers, Michael Cook, Kinly Grey, Dana Lawrie, Tracey Moffatt, and Grant Stevens, and curated by lovely Llewellyn Millhouse. Exhib continues until 16 Feb 2025 at @herveybayregionalgallery
1. Gimdark, 2024, white metal cast of Warhammer sprue.
This work is part of a new series involving apocalyptic fantasy, especially through warhammer and dnd. It is a cast in metal of a plastic Warhammer model sprue, the frame that models come in before assembly by gamers. The title takes its name from the tagline for Warhammer40k: "In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war".
2. Me, shilling.
More photos of recent work 🌚
Guy Louden, Tradition of Hope, 2022, laser engraving on paper, 167 x 122cm.
Exhib text:
On the eve of the 1951 referendum to ban the Communist Party, my grandfather buried his political literature. In this artwork, the story is told through the aesthetics of William Morris, a 19th century artist who combined medievalism with a communist ethos. Though Morris' work seems archaic today, it represents an idealised conception of communism which still appeals in contrast to the brutality of the 20th century.
During my grandfather's life, this sort of radical politics declined and nearly disappeared in Australia. By the time of my own upbringing, it was only ever presented as quaint or ironic. In the making of this artwork, I aimed to recover this familial and social tradition, to rehabilitate my grandfather's understanding of communism – utopian, but moral, hopeful, and experimental.
Made for the 2021 Stringer Prize and exhibited at John Curtin Gallery at Curtin University, Perth.
Today is the final day to see Neoneogothic @pig.melon , open 11-5pm. Alongside gorgeous exhibs from @natsumidedianous and @shmamgram . If you can't make it photos and essay now online xx
Opening at Pig Melon this Friday 11 Feb! My second lil solo show ☺️
'Neoneogothic' is an exhibition combining gothic imagery with digital techniques. It is interested in parallels between the mediaeval and our own age, shared ways of thinking marked by superstition and obscurity. The show is inspired by the rise of esoteric politics online, and particularly by the right-wing politicisation of a family member. The artworks – a video game, digital prints, audio, and text – consider how this sort of thinking could be shaped by recent technological conditions.
'Neoneogothic 2-3', 2022, normal map texture from 3D scans, inkjet print on aluminium.
This show builds on earlier work made for collab exhib w @pascalegiorgi 🙏
Thanks to @pig.melon 🙏
Printing by @joes.printing 🙏
New exhib opening at @pig.melon on Friday 11 Feb!
The show is called Neoneogothic, and includes digital prints and a video game. Everything is purple. 🌌
Swan song for Private Island gallery is the magical 'A Sunken Garden' from Lyndon Blue and Tiyan Baker. Up until 31 October. 🌿🌿
Feat @lyndonxblue@___titanbaker___
See it at @girlsschoolperth
or the pics at 🌐privateisland.gallery
Private Island was run by its artists, with an egalitarian structure and a cooperative way of working. Someone had the bright idea to make all our exhibs duo – so every show became an opportunity to learn from another artist, but also to become friends 🥰
