Jan Murphy Gallery is pleased to present ‘A change of scenery’ by Louise Tate.
The exhibition ‘A change of scenery’ by Louise Tate translates her experiences in the south of France, where she did a residency in 2022 before travelling through Italy. On returning to the studio, Louise sought to distill what she’d seen and felt on her travels, into her paintings. Self-portraits were staged, still life arranged, and a peony named after a French stage actress became a regular prop in her studio.
Time spent elsewhere can provide the fertile ground in which creative thinking grows. It is an experience outside of every life that lingers somewhere between history and imagined reality. A change of scenery makes space for musing, and it brushes away the cobwebs that begin to take up space in life.”
– Louise Tate, 2023
Louise Tate holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (with first class honours) from Melbourne’s RMIT and is currently undertaking a Master of Fine Art (Research) at Monash University. In 2023 she won the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, and has previously been a finalist in a number of prizes including the Omnia Art Prize (2023), Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize (2021), McClelland Splash Contemporary Watercolour Award (2021), Hopper Prize (2020) and the Churchie National Emerging Art Prize (2019).
Image credit: Louise Tate, A twilit landscape, 2023, oil on linen, 123.0 x 184.0 cm
