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.
Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

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