Louise Hearman was born in Melbourne, Australia and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Victorian College of Arts Melbourne in 1984. She works in predominately in oil painting and pastel drawings.
Louise Hearman
Hearman has been exhibiting consistently since the late 1980s and has appeared in a number of group exhibitions including Solitaire, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria (2014); National Artist’s Self-Portrait Prize 2011, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane (2011); Wilderness, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2010); Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2009); Neo Goth: Back in Black, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane (2008); Hello Darkness: The Art of Louise Hearman, Glen Eira Gallery, Victoria (2008); Uncanny (The Unnaturally Strange), Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand (2005); and Uncommon World: Aspects of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2000).
Hearman’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.
Born 1963 in Melbourne, Australia. Lives and works in Melbourne.
Education
1991-92
- Tutor, Painting Department, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1992
- Teacher, Drawing, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne
1982-84
- Bachelor of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
- Louise Hearman, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
2018
- Louise Hearman, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
2017
- Louise Hearman, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
- Louise Hearman, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria
2016
- Louise Hearman, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2011
- Louise Hearman, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
- Louise Hearman, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2008
- Hello Darkness: The Art of Louise Hearman, Glen Eira City Council Gallery
2007
- Louise Hearman, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
2005
- Louise Hearman, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
2003
- Louise Hearman, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
2001
- Louise Hearman, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1998
- Louise Hearman, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1997
- Louise Hearman, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1996
- Louise Hearman, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1991
- Drawings, Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1989
- Recent Paintings, City Gallery, Melbourne
1987
- The Elephant Room, the dome project, The Mission Seamen Building, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
- The Abyss: Strategies in Contemporary Art, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane
2018
- 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Divided Worlds, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2016
- Archibald Prize, winner, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- Shut Up and Paint, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2015
- Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2014
- Moran Portrait Prize, winner, Juniper Hall, Sydney
- Best in Show, Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales Solitaire, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria
2012
- Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
- Volume One: MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
- National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize, finalist, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2010
- 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, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2009
- Clemeneger Contemporary Art Award, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Horror come Darkness, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
2008
- Look! New Perspectives on the Contemporary Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- Neo Goth: Back in Black, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2006
- Before Night – After Nature: Selected works from the Monash University Collection, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
- Instinct, Monash University Museum of Art, Monash University, Victoria
2003
- Depth of Field, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, VIC
- Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968-2002, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2001
- 1901-2001: A Century of Collecting, Ivan Doherty Gallery, Sydney
2000
- Uncommon Word — Aspects of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1999
- Contempora 5, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
1997
- Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1996
- Black Attack, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1995
- Through a Glass Darkly, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1994
- Tell Me A Story, Plimsol Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
1993
- Australian Perspecta 1993, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- Art Frankfurt Contemporary Art Fair, Frankfurt Germany
Selected Awards and Prizes
2016
- Winner of the Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2014
- Winner of the Moran Art Prize, State Library New South Wales, Sydney
1992
- The Ninth R M Ansett Award, Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria
1990
- Swan Hill Print and Drawing Show Purchase Award, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
1983
- Special Projects Grant, Visual Arts Board, Australia Council
Selected Collections
- Monash University Museum of Art, Monash University
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourn
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Box Hill, Victoria
- Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
- Artbank
- Vizard Foundation Art Collection, Melbourne
- Austcorp
- UBS Sydney