Louis Mason graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in November 2011 with a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts, majoring in Painting. Mason’s practice, which incorporates traditional painting, sculpture, installation and performance, seeks primarily to bring to light the ways in which people identify with themselves, and more broadly with the societies that they belong to. Using varied materials and powerful imagery from a variety of sources, Mason strives to bring to light the similarities and differences between our contemporary Western culture and other, older ways of looking at the world. He sees the mundane actions undertaken by everyone as a form of ritual, and sees these rituals as an omnipresent and necessary part of any culture. He is fascinated by the modern disavowal of that notion, and the rise of the belief that we, as a culture, have outgrown our need for the non-corporeal.
More recently, Mason’s evocative performances have explored the relationships between people and the technologies that shape their lives. He sees systems of belief, both ancient and modern, as necessarily linked with evolving technologies, and strives to illuminate these links wherever possible.
