Born 1966 in Mansfield, Victoria, Australia, Louise Weaver currently lives and works in Melbourne. In Weaver’s work the lines between the synthetic and the organic are not blurred but are instead completely redrawn. Weaver re-interprets nature through human processes, employing highly labour intensive methods: objects undergo rebirth and emerge autonomous. Weaver’s characteristic use of highly saturated colours and a refined aesthetic produces works which feel nonetheless timeless, as if from a fairytale. In this group of works a degree of surrealism and abstraction runs parallel to nature, through form as well as materials.
Read MoreLouise Weaver has held regular solo exhibitions since the early 1990s, including Secrets are for keeping, Darren Knight Gallery at the Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne (2008) and Taking a chance on love - Selected works 1990-2006, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Victoria (2006). She is regularly included in group exhibitions, most recently 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Before and After Science, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Magnetic Islands, RMIT Project Space / Spare Room, Melbourne; Almanac, the Gift of Ann Lewis AO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; and Fully Booked, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne (all 2010).
Her work is held in many significant public and private collections including the British Museum, United Kingdom; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Monash University Collection, Melbourne; Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand; Artbank, Australia.
