Louise Curtin

2023
Written By jacky VA

Lifescapes

1 - 12 Nov 2023

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Opening Night

Friday 3 Nov | 6 - 8pm

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When Louise Curtin paints, she is intensely involved in getting the paint on the canvas. An eagerness flows into the piece. Her methodologies are colour, expressive line and brushstroke. Interestingly the final works aim to give peace and a journey for the viewer. The irony is that out of a chaotic beginning develops a painting speaking of purposeful calmness.

Lifescapes is about experiences in the environment and with friends, over the last 6 years. There is an increased stillness in them compared to her earlier works. COVID provided time to settle with the pieces and the courage to change elements that weren’t working. A keener eye has developed and hence a deeper journey with each of the works.

All her paintings aim to engross the viewer in beauty, regardless of subject. Balance, in colour and composition, is vital in order to portray immediacy. Works are painted in situ and in a studio environment. She hopes that a visceral power emanates from the paintings and enters the viewer.

Artist Bio

  • 1991-96, Student with David Moore at Montsalvat, Eltham

  • 1996, Group Show at Roar Gallery, Fitzroy

  • 1997, Group Show at Roar Gallery, Fitzroy

  • 1999, Solo Show at Glen Eira Town Hall Gallery

  • 2002, Group Show Yering Station Gallery, Yarra Valley

  • 2002-2017, Coordinator of Tactile Books and Braille Literature for very young blind children at Vision Australia, Kooyong

  • 2006, Solo Show Tacit Gallery, Preston

  • 2011, Group Show Brightspace Gallery, St. Kilda

  • 2015-2021, Entries in the Moran Portrait Prize and Portia Geach Prize

Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au

Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map

How to get here
Tram: route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens

Melway ref: 30B12
Parking in nearby streets

Bus: 504 (Reid Street)

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