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.
Louise Hearman's work has appeared in a number of significant survey exhibitions of contemporary Australian art including, Fieldwork: Australian Art 1968 – 2002, National Gallery of Victoria at Federation Square in 2002 and Uncommon World - Aspects of Contemporary Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia in 2000.
Hearman’s works are held by most major public collections in and numerous private and corporate collections both in and overseas.
It is the art prize that stops a nation or at least Sydney. The Melbourne Cup for artists, this year's field jockeying for the Archibald Prize is particularly unpredictable, according to the curator of the Archibald Prize exhibition, Natalie Wilson. 'It is like a horse race in a sense,' she said. 'There can always be a...
The 2014 Doug Moran Prize winners have been announced, with Melbourne artist Louise Hearman and Brisbane photographer Suzanne McCorkell the 2014 recipients. Hearman was awarded the 2014 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize of $150,000 for her paintings of renowned Australian photographer Bill Henson (Bill 1383/1384). Hearman said of her...
