myblog | Lou Newman | Activity https://myblog.arts.ac.uk/members/20041298/activity/ Activity feed for Lou Newman. Fri, 15 May 2026 13:58:20 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-GB 30 hourly 2 c53147e1571f0df80d3216f76818e174 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=564 Fri, 25 Nov 2022 19:04:02 +0000 I have been asking myself this question a lot lately. Naturally, it’s the end of MAAI but does that mean it’s the end of The Money Shot Project? And either way what does that mean for the future? Ask have […]

]]> 0 09b8967645e43a4f28e3b1623d184c22 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=562 Fri, 25 Nov 2022 17:33:39 +0000 This new experiment in feedback is interesting. Yes it’s more immediate and unfiltered perhaps. Although I would argue the long messages I get back aren’t exactly filtered either, they’re much more stream of […]

]]> 0 b39eaa2e72b4cf93bb1eac3bc5d1843a Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=555 Sun, 20 Nov 2022 20:45:16 +0000 The Sexed Podcast interview with Liz Godlwyn (author of “Sex, Health and Consciousness”) Nov 2018

Nina Hartley: Other people drift in and out because they don’t know where else to go. Other people get mar […]

]]> 0 ea8e732e20e4f5ced8e233b0c54200a1 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=556 Sun, 20 Nov 2022 20:44:21 +0000 Laura Bates (BEM FRSL)as quoted in The Times in 2018

“I went to school recently where they had a rape case involving a 14 year old boy and a teacher had said to him, “Why didn’t you stop when she was crying?” […]

]]> 0 e43b063aebc6648edd9fdf915081f93a Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=554 Sun, 20 Nov 2022 20:43:10 +0000 I held an evening intervention in the gallery space with a few women (obvs it’s always women who come and also the space is small so it was just 6 of us). It went great. This was the first then I have facilitated […]

]]> 0 2c18dfa9be4b8e5ec932f9618783258f Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=553 Sun, 20 Nov 2022 20:42:09 +0000 Workshops with Gem just didn’t really take off, we tried two different approaches via both an open drop in and a ticketed event. I think this happened for a few reasons. Firstly neither of us really have enough […]

]]> 0 b2131e5de01404b8f19b2808cd8c116d Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=548 Sun, 13 Nov 2022 21:28:59 +0000 We had very little uptake on the collage workshop last Thursday so we’re changing up the format and are doing a drop-in at the gallery where there will be collage and conversation but not a formal discussion. I […]

]]> 0 1f79aa9a78221e34ef6371dcc9148505 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=545 Sun, 06 Nov 2022 22:17:08 +0000 I am looking at a lot of studies around the correlation of porn and body dysmorphia or “body dissatisfaction” which is surprisingly inconclusive actually. It would seem in this particular area whilst there is […]

]]> 0 9ebb5cc9958765d1b0b858d6a2b63ab8 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=525 Sun, 06 Nov 2022 21:55:15 +0000 The exhibition is now hung and I’m pretty pleased with it. Having half the space I originally expected was a bit of a bummer but it was fine in the end. It’s an interesting collection of work asking thoughtful […]

]]> 0 e37467c607dded8a45bab1b1ed860fe9 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=540 Sun, 30 Oct 2022 18:47:52 +0000 I was contacted by a few performance artists during the call out for artists and this took me by surprise because I hadn’t considered that before. I don’t really know why other than it’s not really my particular […]

]]> 0 7663db9814646400cfc402ca4918b339 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=523 Sat, 29 Oct 2022 22:59:59 +0000 I have an intervention planned with young artist Gem Allison who works as Unattainable Blonde. She works with collage and focuses on themes like the commodification of feminism and the performance of femininity. […]

]]> 0 c52c1c752f181d5844a644ab3fe0ce8e Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=511 Mon, 17 Oct 2022 11:17:49 +0000 I find myself both enthused and frustrated by my main stakeholder. When they’re good they’re so good, and when they’re not it’s like banging your head against a brick wall! I guess this can be true of anyone and […]

]]> 0 13e7acec2f5bad27b182dfde1cce475d Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=513 Mon, 17 Oct 2022 11:17:07 +0000 I have been avoiding this as usual MAAI is good at not letting me. I should have thought about this more before hading in my pro-forma evaluation a couple of weeks ago but sick kids and life got in the way so […]

]]> 0 94bc45b525d23cfedf664abd27036df3 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=512 Mon, 17 Oct 2022 11:16:26 +0000 If everyone would just read this book my project wouldn’t need to exist. I’ve tried to reach Gail for an interview but much like Cindy Gallop she’s a busy lady living in the US and travelling a lot so I’m not […]

]]> 0 65b83840a32890c41c50f5bb2d925e84 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=514 Mon, 17 Oct 2022 11:15:43 +0000 The lovely Gem, one of the artists involved with the show, recommended these and they look great. I don’t know how much reading I’ll get done now before the end of term but these look good for me in general […]

]]> 0 8c27fb2826d7ba50c5fd534008e8a180 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=502 Wed, 12 Oct 2022 22:07:57 +0000 I have avoided thinking about this for a while but now is the time to tackle it, especially after the limiting ways in which I can gather feedback from the audio format of a podcast. With the upcoming exhibition […]

]]> 0 bc0a0080d9c857c5af655e38ec3d111b Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=499 Wed, 12 Oct 2022 21:59:59 +0000 It’s time again to have a pause and reflect on everything, especially my latest intervention as well as where everything is going. On the one hand I am very happy with all that is progressing but also feeling a […]

]]> 0 e864f94eb7030cc0ce02db43cde7c0c1 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=500 Wed, 12 Oct 2022 21:58:13 +0000 This project almost has a life of its own now, the more I talk to people about it, whether casually or with specific stakeholders, there are always new roads and avenues that come to light. Today I have spent […]

]]> 0 3780dce65dcea3b7f119b9650cf76cff Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=501 Wed, 12 Oct 2022 21:57:17 +0000 I am in a love hate relationship with this intervention! Firstly, it’s taken ages to come to fruition due to many factors. The process of initially reaching out to people and then actually recording an interview […]

]]> 0 df87dc995e9dedb7af6f1a2436edbb87 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=497 Tue, 04 Oct 2022 11:49:44 +0000 For some reason I am only writing about this now as I clean forgot I hadn’t already because my summer was such a stressful blur it totally escaped me. At the beginning of the summer I participated in a Women of […]

]]> 0 2ae5416ec8b71efd3364019d576d0f26 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=489 Sun, 02 Oct 2022 21:09:44 +0000 Betty Tompkins is a trailblazer of both feminist and erotic art. Starting the Fuck Paintings series after graduating in 1970, Tompkins began cropping and focusing in on body parts and penetrative sex acts, fading […]

]]> 0 260989f61dbd4e78d531895def6d39a7 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=491 Sun, 02 Oct 2022 21:07:58 +0000 I have only just discovered Leah Schrager’s work but I am absolutely loving it. Although I have seen work attempting to achieve this before I don’t think I have seen anything so interestingly executed. Using […]

]]> 0 3e03a499cbc7e45c167ce8d59323b94f Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=484 Sun, 02 Oct 2022 21:06:49 +0000 Minter’s gorgeous photographs and paintings are sumptuous and beautifully executed. A contemporary of Betty Tompkins, Minter’s contribution to the “A Woman’s Right To Pleasure” book and podcast introduced me to […]

]]> 0 8a610e3887d432f153e81ee69502fd30 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=482 Sun, 02 Oct 2022 21:03:14 +0000 I really love Maisie’s work and have used her images in various workshops in the past. The lush colours, the shiny visceral liquid textures and thoughtful juxtaposition of objects and imagery are really alluring […]

]]> 0 33b5275aacb41e4f38be443b5ea7ee67 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=480 Sun, 02 Oct 2022 16:22:56 +0000 Had a great discussion with Avril, who works for the feminist porn producer Erika Lust heading up their new Sex Ed platform “The Porn Conversation” as well as working on set as an intimacy co-ordinator. Using […]

]]> 0 b29c8922d3a9c23c94311fd6e25621ce Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=478 Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:30:16 +0000 Watching the movie along with Art Facilitator and educator Olga Murphy and discussing it.

This was interesting, I had heard a bit about the movie and was interested in watching and then discussing it so Olga […]

]]> 0 3771ec62be126003d30cf33aed17b227 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=476 Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:21:49 +0000 Nan Goldin, 1989.

This is photograph I have used in workshops before also as it’s a piece people seem to connect with instantly. It’s rare to see an image like this very often where female pleasure is the […]

]]> 0 addbf41a70e4d031180567b962a849e0 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=474 Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:59:12 +0000 Carrie Mae Weems, 1987.

In this image Weems stares back at us in a relaxed but confrontational pose, she is saying “so what?” to the naysayers or those who judge. Her physicality and gaze subverts the […]

]]> 0 4f9ec9d6db495298414fbea519b75949 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=472 Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:50:41 +0000 “Girl at Mirror” by Norman Rockwell, for the Saturday Evening Post cover in 1954.

This painting offers us an opportunity to discuss the between-ness of transitional stages in life, in particular here the […]

]]> 0 8006ebc7bffe7461e69a51398ecb819b Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=470 Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:46:15 +0000 I had a great discussion with Occupational Therapist and Sex Educator Sarah Sproule today. Using examples of artworks as prompts we discussed a range of interesting topics including talking to your kids about […]

]]> 0 c0d742d25eb28c197f6fae4e906493e0 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=467 Tue, 13 Sep 2022 20:34:14 +0000 So it’s been a long and very hard summer where I’ve had to step back from this work for a while for personal reasons. Not that it hasn’t been whirring around in the back of my head all that time also. Most of […]

]]> 0 de5fd50cd28e7f7622bae56ba6d94c6f Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=465 Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:05:01 +0000 I haven’t updated this blog in a while so here I am but in the interest of keeping the post count down I’m just gonna squeeze most things in to one or two rambles instead of lots of little ones !

I have […]

]]> 0 bb50b0fd4723267d22d1a280e2310369 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=463 Tue, 31 May 2022 12:14:41 +0000 As I have to reach out more to stakeholders the process of summing up what I am doing with the project is getting better, something I was really struggling with initially. Having the framework of the exhibition […]

]]> 0 6ed46e575e35f6f4d1801f0d3cadd6f9 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=458 Tue, 24 May 2022 16:04:41 +0000 After my meetings with Rafaella and some familiarising myself with artist call outs I have put together a call for artists and summation of the show as well as an additional document that can be sent to artists […]

]]> 0 a50448f2d57610d249b015be264fe03e Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=456 Tue, 24 May 2022 15:56:38 +0000 I have put together a list essentially of things for artists to know or consider if they should want any further direction than the original “Call To Artists” for the exhibition. I mentioned before that I’m […]

]]> 0 0c3bb3527092e8e90697693c83453ddb Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=454 Tue, 24 May 2022 15:51:11 +0000 The public online instagram platform for the project is a double edged sword. On the one hand it is affording me lots of opportunities for connection with stakeholders and potential artists and helping get […]

]]> 0 8c10ad25e149dddcdcb98e6f37ca1d53 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=450 Tue, 24 May 2022 15:36:45 +0000 I met H a few weeks ago at the book launch of mutual friend academic writer and trans activist Grace Lavery. H is doing a phd at Brighton about the sexual experiences of the trans community and we talked a lot […]

]]> 0 37dc2ab261997db8375aa5fb8c1ab73c Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=447 Tue, 24 May 2022 12:28:50 +0000 I’ve had some great meetings with the lovely Rafaella of Metropolis Gallery to finalise our ideas and details for the exhibition which will be at the gallery for the month of November. I wanted to make a call for […]

]]> 0 a751cdbf9f943752612f08838854e73e Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=441 Mon, 25 Apr 2022 10:41:50 +0000 I have had this thought rattling around in my brain for a while about custom porn. When I first heard the tales of custom porn producers on the Jon Ronson podcast “The Butterfly Effect” I was struck immediately […]

]]> 0 f1f7b526fd46de8a49b29e497d2a75c3 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=439 Mon, 25 Apr 2022 09:16:22 +0000 As always although I don’t want to do these written pieces the process is useful. I’ve written out notes, thought about the interventions and assessed where I am and where the project is heading. It feels good to […]

]]> 0 d551687d3e8b5fe9200c921ce652748b Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=433 Tue, 12 Apr 2022 11:59:52 +0000 The dads didn’t give me much to go on, although all feedback was extremely positive I didn’t get many responses. Jim and Dan the organisers of Dad La Soul are keen to have me back at some point and then asked me […]

]]> 0 b756178714242c7457bcb755bb6a678c Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=431 Tue, 12 Apr 2022 11:10:23 +0000 You can watch my session with the dads of Dad La Soul on YouTube. Watching it back was quite helpful actually as I could see where any gaps in my knowledge lie and also how I adapt to a particular audience. It’s […]

]]> 0 a3131c2d6a3ab14b531b977cf8dabe5d Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=424 Sun, 03 Apr 2022 18:07:45 +0000 The wonderful Ms. Naughty, founder of ethical porn platform Bright Desires has given me some temporary log ins for her site to share with the dads from the Dad La Soul intervention. This is great as feel fairly […]

]]> 0 cfdb4aeeb81381166224ccd1d24f5139 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=420 Fri, 01 Apr 2022 16:31:05 +0000 I had a meeting with the lovely Rafaella of Metropolis Gallery here in Brighton to talk about the possibility of putting on an exhibition of commissioned work in response to the project. She was really into the […]

]]> 0 aa6d0b87086520d10e25c10d93ad6e73 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=417 Fri, 01 Apr 2022 09:45:53 +0000 So last night I did an intervention live session online with about 30 or so dads. We talked about porn (ethical and non-ethical), talking to your kids, making choices etc. It went really well. It was a format I […]

]]> 0 110e536bbd7a5038003d35ac9fe6345f Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=415 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 21:22:35 +0000 I have launched the online platform for the project on instagram. It’s a slow process and so far am still covering the past workshops, processes and art that has been involved up until now but am slowly but s […]

]]> 0 8b7680e0a09f96c7f105faa31a121d26 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=411 Wed, 02 Mar 2022 14:07:20 +0000 “I Don’t Know” 2022 

Silicone vibrator with silk, wool, cotton and acrylic weaving, glass, plastic & semi-precious beads, aluminium, glass crystals and Swarovski crystals.

“I Don’t Care” 2022

Sili […]

]]> 0 2a5e778aa7234ef2cc29364be079e354 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=409 Wed, 02 Mar 2022 14:05:14 +0000 I’ve made some art objects using sex toys with the intention of initiating an exploration into our wider cultural relationship to porn as well as it’s place in the domestic sphere.

I’ll be writing a statement […]

]]> 0 f15691ef4c00699fb1b5d11b2912e8ab Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=407 Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:39:40 +0000 Last week I went with Nathaniel and his colleagues from Beyond Equality to assist with the delivery of a sex and relationships session with around 20 boys (around 13 years old) from Brighton College. The workshop […]

]]> 0 8c25542ecf5882a76c6f6f7f10ccdc61 Lou Newman wrote a new post on the site Change Soup https://lounewman.myblog.arts.ac.uk/?p=397 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 15:08:42 +0000 I’ve starting experimenting with making some art objects that were based around sex toys for a while, especially after my long chat with Owen Planchart. Owen ran the 23 Paul Street Stripclub and House of Tease […]

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