These are not illustrations of mood so much as the mood made visible: the slight hum between a person and the world when no one else is watching.
–G
Exhibition Dates: 21 August – 12 September 2026
These paintings don’t just hang on a wall—they lean in and murmur. In them, solitude isn’t lonely so much as charged: a hooded figure and dog stand as if listening to the same private frequency under luminous trees; a pale head tips toward a branch that feels half-plant, half-revelation; a man in white turns his back on us and faces pure green emptiness like it’s the most interesting conversation in the room. Elsewhere a weathered face surfaces beneath turbulent red forms, a black void opens like a quiet dare in pale space, silver trunks tower over a tiny walker, and a bearded profile looks up into a canopy that seems to be thinking back.
What enchants is the way the paint itself seems restless—thick, decisive strokes that refuse to settle into mere representation. Light arrives like a sudden thought; darkness holds its breath. These are not illustrations of mood so much as the mood made visible: the slight hum between a person and the world when no one else is watching.
–G
Louise Hearman
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2026
Louise Hearman
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2025
Group Show, The First 40 Years
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2024
Louise Hearman
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2018
Divided Worlds
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, 2018
Louise Hearman
TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, VIC, 2017
Louise Hearman
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2016
Louise Hearman Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
Moran Arts Foundation, Sydney, 2014-15
Louise Hearman
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2011
Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2009-10
Louise Hearman Clemenger Prize
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2009-10
Group Show, Summer '07 '08
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2007
Louise Hearman
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2005