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Louise Hearman Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery 21 August–12 September 2026 Sydney
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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.

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Exhibition view: Louise Hearman, Louise Hearman, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (21 August–12 September 2026). Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Exhibition view: Louise Hearman, Louise Hearman, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (21 August–12 September 2026). Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
About the Artist

Louise Hearman was born in Melbourne, Australia and graduated in 1984 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Victorian College of Arts Melbourne. Hearman started tutoring at the old alma mater's Painting Department in the early 1990s, and taught Drawing at RMIT in 1992.

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Established in Sydney by influential Australian art dealer and gallerist Roslyn Oxley and her husband Tony Oxley in 1982, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is one of Australia’s leading commercial galleries.

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Sydney 8 Soudan Lane, Paddington, NSW
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery contemporary art gallery in Sydney Australia
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
8 Soudan Lane, Paddington, NSW, Sydney, Australia
+61 2 9331 1919
http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au

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