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, 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

Sellers Art Prize, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne (Winner)

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

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

Steven Miller, Dogs in Australian Art, (South Australia: Wakefield Press, 2012) pp.38-39

Justin Burke, `Painting by Australian rules', The Australian, October 23, 2012, pp16

Simon Gregg, New Romantics . … darkness and light in Australian Art, Australian Scholarly Publishing

“50 of Australia's most collectable Artists 2010” Australian Art Collector, issue 51 Jan-Mar, 2010

Who's who of Australian Women, 2010, Crown Content, Melbourne 2010

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

Edward Colless, 'Unentitled: On Louise Hearman, untitled', Art & Australia, Vol. 46, No. 1 Spring, 2008, pp.26-131

Paul Flynn, Louise Hearman: My Imagined World', Artist Profile, Issue 3, 2008, pp.28-34

Steven Miller, Dogs in Australian Art

John McDonald and Ian Lloyd, Studio: Australian Painters on the Nature of Creativity, Singapore: Ian Lloyd Productions, 2007

Michael Reid, `Louise Hearman', The art oracle, The Good Weekender, The Sydney Morning Herald, June 24, 2006, p. 19

John McDonald, `Daydreamers who bite back', Spectrum, The Sydney Morning Herald, December 3-4, 2005, p. 32-33

Margaret Marsh, Michele Watts and Craig Malyon A.R.T. 2 practice, Oxford University Press, Melbourne 2005 p. 68-69

Nellie Castan, “New York - The Armory Show 2004,” ART EXPO, pg. 30

Liza Vasiliou, Instinct, exh. cat., Monash University Museum of Art, Monash University, Victoria

Claire Armstrong, “Collector Profile: Dick Quan,” Art & Australia, Vol. 41 No. 4, Winter 2004, p. 615 - 617

Ashley Crawford, “Louise Hearman,” See Here Now: Vizard Foundation Art Collection of the 1990s, editors Chris MacAuliffe and Sue Harvey, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd, Victoria, p. 60 - 63

Michael Hutak, 'Louise Hearman: 50 Most Collectable Artists,' Australian Art Collector, Issue 23, January - March, p. 59

Karen Hall, “Louise Hearman,” Depth of Field exh. cat., Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, Victoria, p. 18, 19

Robert Nelson, “Photography and painting in cahoots,” The Age, Saturday, 25 January 2003, p. 26 (Arts)

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Elena Taylor, “Louise Hearman,” Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia, ed. Anne Gray, Thames & Hudson, London, UK, p. 415

Charles Green, “Into the 1990s: the decay of postmodernism,” Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 - 2002, exh. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne (November 2002 to February 2003), p. 100 - 111

Glenis Israel, Artwise 2: Visual Arts 7 - 10, John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd., Milton, Queensland, pp. 97 - 99

Benjamin Genocchio, Weekend Australian, 4 -5 August
1901 - 2001: A Century of Collecting (exh. cat.), Ivan Doherty Gallery, Sydney

Coutney Kidd, `Louise Hearman,' Australian Painting Now (editor S. Cree), Craftsman House

Jennifer Spinks, `Secrets and Skies - the Paintings of Louise Hearman,' Australian Art Collector Magazine, issue 8, June, pp. 68 -72
Maria Prendergast, `Louise Hearman,' Contempora 5 (exh. cat.) Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne University, pp. 14 - 15
Elena Taylor, `Louise Hearman,' Uncommon World (exh. cat.), National Gallery of Australia, p. 21

Gareth Sansom, `Up the Road - Contemporary Artists out of the VCA (exh. cat.),' Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Bruce James, `Hearman aims for a place in the sun, and nails it,' Sydney Morning Herald, 15 July
John McDonald, `Painting Dead? The picture's not so bleak,' Sydney Morning Herald (Spectrum), July 18
Suzannah Biernoff, `Louise Hearman and the atmosphere of vision,' Mori Gallery

Judith White, `Australia's Most Wanted,' Australian Art Collector Magazine, issue 1, July, pp. 30 - 33
Jennifer Spinks, “Mirror, Mirror: Cruelty and Innocence,” Art & Australia, vol. 35, no, 2, pp. 234 - 241

John MacDonald, `Left in the Dark,' Sydney Morning Herald (Spectrum), June 8, p. 13

Bruce James, `Hearman out of darkness,' The Age, Melbourne, 31 May
John Forbes, `Go Ask Alice,' Through a Glass Darkly, Art Gallery of New South Walesexh. cat., pp. 19-27

Zara Stanhope, Faciality exh. cat., p.11
Nick Waterlow, Drawing on Inspiration exh. cat.
Donald Williams and Colin Simpson, 'Contemporary Art post 1970', Art Now, p. 189-90
Jonathan Holmes, `Tell Me A Story' exh. cat., pp. 22-26

Nick Waterlow, `Louise Hearman,' Australian Perspecta 1993, Art Gallery of New South Wales exh. cat.
Victoria Lynn, Australian Perspecta 1993, Art Gallery of New South Wales exh. cat.

Melbourne Theatre Company catalogue, p. 12
Nick Waterlow, `Seven,' Ivan Doherty Gallery exh. cat.

Chris Chapman, `The Corporeal Body,' Australian National Gallery exh. cat.

Anna Johnson, `Between Heaven and Hell,' Interior Design, no. 18, pp. 134 - 7

Anna Weiss, `Louise Hearman,' Moet & Chandon Tourning Exhibition exh. cat.

The Australian, May 10, p. 3

`Partisans,' Vogue Living, November, pp. 134 - 5
The Herald Sun, Melbourne, July 14, p. 3