Louise Giovanelli - Always Different, Always the Same

Louise Giovanelli 'Always Different, Always the Same' is an artist's book that documents an exhibition of site-specific paintings by one of the UK's most prominent young artists. The publication takes British DJ John Peel's famous description of Manchester-band The Fall, images of the eucharist and contemporary spiritual reverie as its starting point. Although spiritual energy, sensation, art-history, repetition and difference anchor this project, Giovanelli's recent works owe as much to her daily life in Manchester as they do her daily act of painting in the city. Currently hailing from Prestwich - the area of Greater Manchester that The Fall's late Mark E. Smith also called home - the artist cites red brick, gothic architecture, mythic sprites, and local pubs as influences on her work, an example of which comes with the visual vocabulary of Prestwich's The Church Inn, whose green tiles have led to the same tint in each iteration of Entheogen.