b. 1992
Lives and works in Melbourne/Naarm, Australia
Education
RMIT University, Melbourne
Bachelor of Fine Art Honours (1st Class)
2013—2016
Utrecht School of the Arts, the Netherlands
Semester abroad
2014
RMIT University, Melbourne
Certificate IV in Visual Arts and Contemporary Crafts
2012
Solo exhibitions
2022
— TBA, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne (forthcoming, online only)
2021
—Flowerings, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
2020
—Looking at trees, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne (online)
—Getting warmer, Boom Gallery, Geelong
—In the midst of disappearing, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane (online)
2018
—History is a variable narrative, SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne
2017
—Intimacies, Boom Gallery, Geelong
2016
—Like a lingering silence, the solitude, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne
—An irrational tenderness for inanimate objects, First Site Gallery, Melbourne
Residencies
2022
Kelton Plains, Cootralantra NSW (forthcoming)
Parramatta Artist Studios, Parramatta NSW (forthcoming)
2019
NARS Foundation, Brooklyn NY, U.S.A.
2017
Macfarlane Fund, Kyneton VIC
Group exhibitions
2021
— Natura Morta, Boom Gallery, Geelong (forthcoming)
—Splash Contemporary Watercolour Award, McClelland McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, Langwarrin VIC (forthcoming)
—Every Artist Ever, Stockroom, Kyneton VIC
2020
—Looking Forward While Looking Back: A Self in Construction curated by Elisa Gutiérres Eriksen, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn NY, USA (online)
—Spring Group Exhibition, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne (online)
2019
—Summer 2019 (online), Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
—The churchie national emerging art prize curated by Naomi Blacklock, the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
—Here: A Bit of Everywhere and Everyone They've Been curated by Vanessa Kowalski, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn NY, USA
—Seventh Gallery Fundraiser, SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne
2018
—Memory and Paint, Boom Gallery, Geelong
—Salon Gallery Warming, Gallery Salon, Melbourne
2017
—The Macfarlane Fund, Stockroom Space, Kyneton VIC
2016
—Boom Christmas Show, Boom Gallery, Geelong
—RMIT Honours Graduate Exhibition, RMIT University, Melbourne
—Hornsby Art Prize, Wallorobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby NSW
—Current, Boom Gallery, Geelong
—Emerging Artist Award, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
—Green, Boom Gallery, Geelong
—Summer Projects IV, Boom Gallery, Geelong
2015
—End of Year Prize Show, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne
—Graduate Exhibition, RMIT University, Melbourne
—Light and Shade, GreySpace: RMIT, Melbourne
2014
—Foreingers, Kuub 99, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Awards / Grants
2021
—Finalist, Splash Contemporary Watercolour Award, McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, Langwarrin VIC
—NAVA Artists' Benevolent Fund
2020
—Finalist, The Hopper Prize
2019
—Semi-finalist, The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Juniper Hall, Sydney
—Finalist, the churchie national emerging art prize, the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
—Semi-finalist, The Brett Whitely Travelling Art Scholarship, Brett Whitely Studio, Sydney
—Highly Commended, Contemporary Art Awards, online exhibition
2017
—Emerging Writers Program, SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne
—The Macfarlane Fund Graduate Residency Award, Kyneton VIC
2016
—Finalist, Hornsby Art Prize, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby NSW
—Finalist, Emerging Artist Award, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2015
—Winner: Student Section, End of Year Prize show, 69 Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne
2014
—John Storey Junior Memorial Scholarship, RMIT University, Melbourne
Texts / Publications
2021
—Sasha Gattermayr, Painting Gentle, Hopeful Utopias with Louise Tate, The Design Files, 5 August
—Gyun Hur, Danny Gurung & Louise Tate, week four, fLoromancy online journal, 27 June
— Gyun Hur, Danny Gurung & Louise Tate, week three, fLoromancy online journal, 20 June
— Gyun Hur, Danny Gurung & Louise Tate, week two, fLoromacy online journal, 13 June
—Gyun Hur & Louise Tate, week one, fLoromancy online journal, 5 June
—Sasha Gattermayr, 11 Affordable, Emerging Painters You Should Know!, The Design Files, 22 February
2020
—Mickey Egan, Review of 'Getting warmer', Boom Gallery, 5 July
—Dylan Foley, Q & A with Louise Tate, Boom Gallery, 20 June
—Lois Hazel, Getting creative at home with Louise Tate, Lois Hazel, 26 April
—Simone Agius, comfort in creativity, simétrie, 13 April
—Hopper Prize: Spotlight on the Artists, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine
—Hopper Prize Finalist Interview, The Hopper Prize, 26 March
2019
—Lois Hazel, Monday Muse: Louise Tate, Lois Hazel - Honest Women Series, 29 September
—Gyun Hur & Louise Tate, Louise Tate's garden, fLoromancy online journal, 22 September
—Naomi Blacklock, "the churchie national emerging art prize 2019," catalogue essay, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
—Di Erlichman, "Louise Tate: A Fiction of Others," Contemporary Art Awards
2018
—Sophie Morrow, "Girl from Chios Goes Soul Searching," Exhibition Essay for History is a variable narrative, SEVENTH Gallery
2017
—Louise Tate, "You're a complex Freudian hallucination having something to do with my mother, but you have very lovely legs and you’re a very nice tiny person," SEVENTH Emerging Writers Program
2016
—Voiceworks issue 103: Bang