Louise Hearman

LOUISE HEARMAN

6 September, Born Melbourne, Australia

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

Tutor, Painting Department, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

Teacher, Drawing, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Louise Hearman, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Louise Hearman, QUT Art Museum, Queensland

Louise Hearman, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Louise Hearman, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria

Louise Hearman, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Louise Hearman, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Hello Darkness, The Art of Louise Hearman, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Victoria

Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Louise Hearman, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Louise Hearman, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Louise Hearman, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Louise Hearman, Mori Gallery, Sydney

Louise Hearman, Mori Gallery, Sydney

Louise Hearman, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne

Louise Hearman, Mori Gallery, Sydney

Drawings, Realities Gallery, Melbourne

Recent Paintings, City Gallery, Melbourne

The Elephant Room, the dome project, The Mission Seamen Building, Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Archie 100, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Vis-ability: Artworks from the QUT Art Collection, QUT Art Museum, Queensland, Australia

Art Cologne, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Cologne, Germany

Spring 1883, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Melbourne

Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Divided Worlds, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Weird Melancholy: The Australian Gothic, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne

Best in Show, Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales

Solitaire, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Healesville

2014 Doug Moran Portrait Prize, Juniper Hall, Sydney

Blue Chip XVI: The Collectors' Exhibition 2014, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

Bonhams presents The Laverty Collection, fortyfivedownstairs, Mlebourne
Far-famed City of Melbourne, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne

Sellers Art Prize, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne

National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize 2011: Life is risk / Art is risk, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Queensland

Adaptation, Dubbo Regional Gallery - The Armati Bequest, Western Plains Cultural Centre, New South Wales

Lake, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, New South Wales

Moran Portrait Prize, State Library New South Wales

Wilderness, The inaugural Balnaves exhibition of contemporary painting, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Horror come Darkness, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney

Look! New Perspectives on the Contemporary Collection, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne

Neo Goth: Back in Black, The Art Museum, University of Queensland, curated by Alison Kubler

Who Let the Dogs Out, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW

Redlands Westpac Art Prize, SCECGS Redlands, Sydney

Reverie, Switchback Gallery, Gippsland Centre for Art and Design, Monash University, Churchill, Victoria

Uncanny (the unnaturally strange), curator Rhana Devenport, ARTSPACE, Auckland

Before Night - After Nature: Selected works from the Monash University Collection, curator Geraldine Barlow, Monash University Museum of Art, Monash University, Victoria

2004 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, Victoria

Freaks Fiends and Folly, St Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne

Instinct, Monash University Museum of Art, Monash University, Victoria

Depth of Field, Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, Victoria

Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne (November 2002 to February 2003)

Dirty Dozen, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Nocturne, curated by John Buckley, Mornington Peninsula Gallery, Victoria

Darkness and Light, MacClelland Gallery, Victoria (travelling exhibition)
Painting: An Arcane Technology? Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
1901 - 2001: A Century of Collecting, Ivan Doherty Gallery, Sydney

Uncommon World - Aspects of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Contempora 5, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne

Telling Tales, Ivan Doherty Gallery, Sydney
Metamorphosis, Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery, Melbourne

Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Black Attack, curated by John McPhee, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Works on Paper, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
Hidden Treasures II, S, H, Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Visy Board Prize Exhibition, Adelaide

Through A Glass Darkly, the inaugural Guiness Contemporary Art Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Drawing on Inspiration, Ivan Doherty Gallery, Sydney
Tell Me A Story, Plimsol Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Love & Ruin, St Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne
Faciality, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne

Australian Perspecta 1993, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Frankfurt Contemporary Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
Margaret Stewart Endowment 1993, Selected Works, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Seven, Ivan Doherty Gallery, Sydney
Artists Play, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
Ten Square, Linden Art Gallery, Melbourne
Works on Paper, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Gallery, Melbourne

Faber Castell Tenth Anniversary Drawing Award, Sydney
The Corporeal Body, Australian National Gallery, Canberra

John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Melbourne Savage Club Drawing Prize, Melbourne
Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibtion, Australian Tour
A New Generation 1983 - 88, Australian National Gallery, Canberra

3 Artists, Mori Gallery, Sydney

COLLECTIONS

Monash University Museum of Art, Monash University

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Box Hill, Victoria

Artbank

Vizard Foundation Art Collection, Melbourne

Austcorp

UBS Sydney

AWARDS

Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)

Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (finalist)

2014 Doug Moran Portrait Prize

Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne

The Ninth R M Ansett Award, Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria

Swan Hill Print and Drawing Show Purchase Award, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery

Special Projects Grant, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council

BIBLIOGRAPHY

John Neylon, 'Adelaide Biennial - On the Edge of a Divided World', The Adelaide Review, March 27 2018

Andrew Gayor, 'Louise Hearman, The Worlds Within', Vault Magazine, Issue 17 February 2017, pp.44-47

Michaela Boland, Archibald Prize 2016 winner: Barry by Louise Hearman, The Australian, 15 July 2016

John Mcdonald, 'Floating in darkness', Spectrum Sydney Morning Herald, October 15-16, 2016 pp.16-17

Steph Harmon, Louise Hearman wins Archibald prize for Barry Humphries portrait , Art and design ,The Guardian, 15 July

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Louise Hearman, MCA Australia Publishing
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Andrew Taylor, “Louise Hearman wins Moran Prize for portrait of Bill Henson”, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 October 2014

Michaela Boland, “Louise Hearman wins Moran Prize for her portrait of Bill Henson”, The Australian, October 28 2014

Helen Brack, Blue Chip XVI: The Collectors' Exhibition, Exh. Catalogue, Niagara Galleries Melbourne, 2014
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Nicholas Forrest, Louise Hearman wins $150,000 Doug Moran Portrait Prize for 2014, Blouin Artinfo Australia, 28 October 2014
Nancy Groves, Louise Hearman wins 2014 Moran Prize, Australias richest award, The Guardian Australia, 28 October 2014
Adrian Raschella, Moran Art Prize: Melbourne artist Louise Hearman wins for portrait of Bill Henson, ABC Australia, 28 October 2014

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Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, 2009 National Gallery of Victoria (exh cat.)

Wilderness: Balnaves Contemporary: Painting (exh cat.)

Rhonda Davis, Horror come Darkness (exh. cat.), Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney

Hello Darkness, The Art of Louise Hearman, ex. cat., Glen Eira City Council, Victoria

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