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
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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
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