Areas of Expertise

Louise Rouse is an artist who works with practice-based and interdisciplinary qualitative research methods and is co-founder of the Archival Glitch platform at Temple University Japan. She deals with topics that intersect with gender and distributed belonging through print, code, installation and qualitative research. She studied design and fine art in the UK and Japan, with formative training in water-based woodblock printmaking and media art programming. She was a visiting resarcher at the Creative Computing Institute in London in 2023. She is writing her doctoral thesis at Tokyo University of the Arts. Her works have been selected for exhibitions at TOKAS, Bosch Japan, Nakanojo Biennale, Hagiso, Frans Masereel Centrum, Bloc Projects, Southern Vermont Arts Center and more. She has been invited to speak at conferences focussed on practice-based research methods at Centre Européen d’Études Japonaises d’Alsace, The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, University of Europe for Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany, and Central Saint Martins, London.

Teaching Interests

At TUJ Louise has taught undergraduate courses in both traditional printmaking and digital fabrication-based techniques, as well as media art programming and interdisciplinary workshop classes in the art program, and supervised visiting master’s students from main campus. Louise has also taught at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London (information and interaction design); National College of Art and Design, Dublin (digital fabrication printmaking); and Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia (Japanese woodblock printmaking) for individual units, modules and courses. She has also provided short workshops in ukiyoe woodblock printing at around 30 institutions worldwide alongside master carver Motoharu Asaka. She has provided public lectures at Berkeley Art Museum, The Royal Academy and Ditchling Museum on the social histories of the technologies, ecologies and aesthetics of print in Japan.

Education

2024
PhD Fine Art | Tokyo University of the Arts

2011
MFA Design | Tama Art University

2007
BFA Illustration | School of Art and Design, UWE Bristol

Professional Associations

Louise is an accredited fellow of Advance HE, a member of the Experimental Pedagogies Research Group at UAL, and a member of the Print Scholars Association.