Louise Weaver

Louise Weaver was born in 1966 in Mansfield, Victoria. She lives and works in Melbourne.

Her multidisciplinary practice employs an assortment of media in the creation of both individual works and expansive sculptural installations that centre around content of the natural world. The animals and environments that Weaver creates interact with a broad range of themes. Weaver addresses subjects ranging from the fantastical and issues of contemporary social concerns, including conventional expectations of femininity and environmentalism, to broader philosophical constructs of artificiality and transformation.

Her work was recently the subject of the survey exhibition, Between Appearances: The Art of Louise Weaver, curated by Melissa Keys at Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne in 2019 and has been touring as part of Obsessed: Compelled to Make, Australian Design Centre, Sydney since 2018.

Weaver’s work is held in many significant public and private collections including the British Museum, United Kingdom; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Monash University Collection, Melbourne; Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand; Artbank, Australia.