MPavilion Opening November 2020

Louise Hearman

Image courtesy of Louise Hearman

Louise Hearman creates visually haunting, modestly-scaled pastel drawings and paintings in oil. Her work has been exhibited consistently since the late 1980s and has appeared in a number of solo and group exhibitions, including solo exhibitions at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (2018, 2011, 2005, 2003), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2016), and TarraWarra Musuem of Art (2016). In 2016, Louise won the Archibald Prize for her portrait of Barry Humphries, and in 2014 won the Moran Prize for her portrait of Bill Henson.

For Louise’s solo exhibition at TarraWarra in 2016, the museum’s catalogue read: “With great technical skill and rapid brushwork, she focuses intently on capturing particular qualities of light in her subjects. Her disquieting images are reminiscent of fleeting sensory impressions, like something that is glimpsed but not quite seen, caught at the moment just before conscious apprehension.”

Louise’s work is held in numerous collections including Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville; and various private corporate collections.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.