LouJns

As for myself, I am a multidisciplinary artist originally from Meanjin in so called Australia, currently living close to blood in Lisboa, Portugal. After completing a Bachelor of Music Technology at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University, in 2021, I have continued to evolve my creative practice through an eclectic array of musical projects, spoken word performance, and an increasing devotion to spirituality. Since relocating to Portugal, I have found a new love for creative movement through salsa and the Latin dance communities.

At 11, I was imitating Skrillex on pirated software; in the years since, I have maintained a ceaseless practice of expression through sound – flowing between energetic electronics, avant garde tape compositions, alternative folk, singing, and speaking. An independent interest in writing emerged more recently, as it was only with the likes of Virginia Woolf that I began to bring my words from solely lyrics to standalone works of art.

Today, my practice seeks to find union between all forms of art and expression, digital and organic, intellectual and folkloric.

CM&C

September, 2019, I look across the river towards the old wool stores who’ve haunted me for years of my adolescence & misread the white letters on the brickwork as “Colesbrough Mort & Co.”. Penning the name in my red notebook, my fate was sealed. However it wouldn’t be until the following year, after divine intervention & in the belly of lockdown, this title would surface as the spearhead of my future artistic endeavors, taking the form of a crudely designed blog and providing full expression and control of my being apon the vast noisewash of the internet.

Colesbrough Mort & Company is the umbrella operated under both as Lou Jns (given name), and K. Olivier (alias), as I indulge creative whims leading me closer to god.