Louise Weaver

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

Her multidisciplinary practice employs a broad spectrum of media in the creation of individual works and expansive sculptural installations influenced by the dynamics and fragility of the natural world. Through her orchestration of colour, texture and structure she investigates the interplay of order and coincidence, revealing a complex interconnected universe of beauty that is both real and imagined. Weaver's work addresses  contemporary social concerns, conventional expectations of femininity, environmentalism and broader philosophical constructs of artificiality and transformation.

Recently her work was included in Hair Pieces, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2024) and was the subject of the survey exhibition, Between Appearances: The Art of Louise Weaver, curated by Melissa Keys at Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne (2019). It toured as part of Obsessed: Compelled to Make, Australian Design Centre, Sydney 2018-2021.

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