Olivia Louvel

Olivia Louvel

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 https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3349-7049
20172025

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My thesis examines the interplay between voice and sculpture to understand their manifold interrelationships in the fields of fine art, sound art and new media, and to establish the concept of voice sculpture. 

Areas of research: Fine Art, Sound Art, Musique Concrète, Installation Art, Practice-Based Research.

Specialising in voice, sculpture, sound sculpture, hybridity. 

Scholarly biography

As a doctoral researcher at the University of Brighton, I explored the relationship between voice and sculpture across the Fine Art and Digital Music & Sound Arts departments. 

I was awarded a travel and research grant by the Henry Moore Foundation to investigate Lukas Kühne' s sound sculpture in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, hosted by the Skaftfell Art Center's artist residency programme.

Research outputs [author]: 'LOL, a Sonic Détournement of the CCTV Surveillance Network' (Leonardo, The MIT Press, 2025); 'Baschet’s Voice Leaf: The voice wrapped in the sculptural leaf' (Organised Sounds, Cambridge University Press, 2025); 'Lukas Kühne’s Tvísöngur: Sculpture for a Concrete, Uncompressed Voice' (Divergence Press, University of Huddersfield, 2024); ‘A generative sound mural: The Whole Inside. Sounding the body’ (Leonardo Music Journal, The MIT Press, 2020).

Research outputs [practitioner]: 'doggerLANDscape', video art shown at APT Gallery London (2025) and Towner Cinema, Towner Eastbourne (2024); 'doggerLANDscape', broadcast on Late Junction/BBC Radio 3 (2023); 'LOL' a site-specific sonic intervention delivered through the public address system of Middlesbrough’s CCTV surveillance network at Middlesbrough Art Weekender 2022; 'Doggerland Channels', a sound art installation at Phoenix Art Space (2022) for Sound Art Brighton, and re-installed at Middlesbrough Art Week (2023); ‘The Sculptor Speaks’, a broadcast on Resonance Extra and an audio-visual installation at The Hepworth Wakefield (2021) and at Towner Eastbourne (2023).

Awards: Ivor Novello Award Best Sound Art at the Ivors Classical Awards 2023 for 'LOL', a sonic intervention delivered through the public address system of Middlesbrough’s CCTV surveillance network; a selection for the Longlist at the Aesthetica Art Prize 2021 for 'The Whole Inside'; a nomination Best Sound Art at the Ivors Composer Awards 2020 for 'The Sculptor Speaks'; a Qwartz Album Award at the Qwartz Electronic Music Awards 2011.

I am a member of Sound Art Brighton and the Hepworth Research Network.

Approach to teaching

As an Associate Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Brighton, I delivered lectures for the BA programme, led seminars on ‘Theories and Practices of Fine Art: Contexts and Specialisms’, and supervised students' final-year dissertations. As a studio practice lecturer, I also facilitated the workshop ‘Drawing in the Expanded Field’. For the Digital Music & Sound Arts BA, I lectured on Sound Sculptures.

I am interested in the hybridisation of the arts, linking techniques and terminologies between fine art and sound.

 

 

 

 

Education/Academic qualification

Master, 'Resounding the Voice. On repurposing the archival material of voice, from analogue to digital', School of Art and Media

2019 → 2020

Award Date: 23 Sept 2020

Bachelor, 'The Sculpted Voice: an exploration of voice in sound art', School of Art and Media

2016 → 2019

Award Date: 27 Jun 2019

External positions

Hepworth Research Network. Symposium ‘Contemporary Artists and Barbara Hepworth’, University of Huddersfield

15 Oct 2021

Seminar 'Hepworth Resounds', Yorkshire Sound Women Network

1 Jun 2021

Keywords

  • M Music
  • sound art
  • NB Sculpture
  • Sculpture

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