Louise Tate
ARTIST STATEMENT
Louise’s work explores painting as a care practice; the degradation of the natural environment due to climate change; and how imagined utopian worlds can suggest gentler ways of coexisting with the world around us. As a woman, a painter, and as someone who cares deeply about nature, her aim is explore a relational and reciprocal connection between her art practice and a world fraught with environmental and climate precarity, and continued gender inequality.
She considers how the painted image can cultivate a form of thinking-with that is based on mutuality and care. In this way care is perceived as an alternative to the extractivist mindset of capitalism, which draws endless productive value from the natural environment and women’s care labour. Using oil paint on linen, Louise marks with paint the ways her own body and the plants that grow near her home overlap, coexist, and care for each other.
BIO
Louise is an artist who lives and paints on Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne, Australia). She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art with First Class Honours from RMIT University in 2016 and has been exhibiting across Australia and internationally ever since. Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions at Jan Murphy Gallery, Bayside Gallery, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Boom Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, and the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane/Meanjin among others.
In 2023 she won the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize. Louise has also been a finalist in many prestigious Australian art prizes, most recently including the Omnia Art Prize (2023), Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize (2021), the McClelland Splash Contemporary Watercolour Award (2021), and the churchie national emerging art prize (2019). She has participated in artist residencies at Hôtel Sainte Valière in France (2022), the NARS Foundation in New York (2019), and Kyneton in regional Victoria (2017), which was supported by the Macfarlane Fund.
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