LOUISE WEAVER

ECSTATIC HORIZON

May 16 - June 21, 2025.

Exhibition Opening Event, Friday May 16, 6-8pm.

Ecstatic horizon features woven paintings that combine hand-painted Japanese paper and linen thread, creating a dialogue between poetic landscape and vivid abstraction. Weaver's practice is influenced by the dynamics and fragility of the natural world, as well as environmental, social and feminist themes.
Through her orchestration of colour, texture and structure she investigates the interplay of order and coincidence, revealing a complex interconnected universe of fragile beauty that is both real and imagined.

Louise Weaver was born in 1966 in Mansfield, Victoria and currently lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne. She has exhibited regularly since 1993. Recent museum exhibitions include: The John Norman Mann Bequest, Geelong Gallery, Victoria (2025), Hair Pieces, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2024), nightshifts, Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne (2023), Bewilderness: Recent Acquisitions, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (2023), and Phenomena, Geelong Gallery, Victoria (2023).

Weaver’s work was the subject of an extensive survey exhibition, Between Appearances: The Art of Louise Weaver curated by Melissa Keys at Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne in 2019-2020. Her work is held in public and private collections including the British Museum, London, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Queensland Art Gallery/GAGOMA, Brisbane, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Monash University Collection, Melbourne, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand and Artbank, Australia.

Louise Weaver would like to dedicate Ecstatic horizon to her father, Barry Weaver (1934 - 2025).

'Melancholia II' 2013 bronze, oil paint, beeswax candle - candlestick dimensions 33.5 x 16.5 x 15 cm, polyhedron candle (cast on the evening of the Winter Solstice) Edition of 3. Photo by Mark Ashkanasy

Crystal Satellite: Satellite Crystal 2009 Polyamide, lamb's wool, linen thread, Spanish willow 80 x 85 x 85 cm.

Trailing clouds 2025 synthetic polymer emulsion, iridescent pigment, Japanese kozo natural paper, linen and cotton thread on linen 92h x 61w cm. Photo by Mark Ashkanasy

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