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Recent writing from the studio, the archive, and the general mess of making things.

  • Total Collapse

    Coming to a society near you, soon! Total moral bankruptcy! Complete abandonment or truth and facts! Wholesale transferal of wealth to the ultra-rich! Unparalleled destruction of the environment! All for the bargain price of your soul! Don’t accept any other kind, only TOTAL collapse will do!

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  • Art Against Meltdowns

    Art is therapy. It is for everyone, but in a more general ambient sense. For me it’s an essential mechanism for managing my tempestuous mental health. It was literally prescribed. I’ve tried many “remedies” for managing my my mental health – physical, dietary, chemical, interpersonal, inadvisable, the lot. Nothing calms, regulates and centres me like…

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  • Drawing from multiple sources, or things I do while watching TV

    While I watch TV I like to make pictures with pencil. I never just watch TV. I’m not very good at that. If I try I get restless and fidgety, then irritable, and eventually end up doing something else. It’s not that I don’t like watching TV. It’s one of my favourite activities. I simply…

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  • Romancing the AI – Using Neural Networks as part of the creative process

    I’m not just an artistic genius you know. I have a day job (well, not at the moment, but let’s pretend) that involves me using clever coding algorithms to tease information out of voluminous and/or complex data sets. It’s both challenging and satisfying and I’m very good at it. It’s also not so different from…

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  • Kong-fu by Alex Loveless

    In 2021, and really at every point in the past 5 or so years, I found myself outraged by the actions of silly small men, supposedly “strong” men, in positions of responsibility and power, abusing their position for personal gain, gratification and ego aggrandisement. Many thousands of people have suffered and continue to suffer because…

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  • My studio today and what to do when you’re too close to the edge…

    Here’s what my studio looks like today: It’s always a bit of a mess, and since I’m ramping up for an exhibition, it’s particularly chaotic. You’ll note my “washing line” along the back wall. This is actually a washing line chord, but I don’t tend to use it for drying paintings, or clothes for that…

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  • Various Pencil Sketches #1

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  • Skull #1 by Alex Loveless

    Acrylic on Canvas

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  • Human (3) by Alex Loveless

    Alcrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas

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  • The Others by Alex Loveless (2022)

    Acrylic on Canvas

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