| | LOUISE SAXTON |
| | BIOGRAPHY |
| 1958 | Born Walcha, NSW |
| 2003 | Master of Visual Arts, University of Ballarat Arts Academy, Ballarat |
| 1994 | Post- graduate Diploma in Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne |
| 1992 | Bachelor of Fine Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne |
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| | SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
| 2015 | Louise Saxton WILD, Gould Galleries,Melbourne |
| 2013 | Louise Saxton Sanctuary too, Gould Galleries, Melbourne |
| 2012 | Louise Saxton Sanctuary, Heide Museum of Modern Art; Andrew Myer & Kerry Gardner Project Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2009 | Salvage: reclaimed textiles, Elsie Gallery, Malmsbury |
| 2007-8 | dot-net-dot-au (with Tim Craker), Red Gallery Contemporary Art Space, Fitzroy North; The Annexe Gallery, Kuala Lumpur; The Sub Station Gallery, Singapore |
| 2004-5 | Gardenesque – Louise Saxton & Carole Wilson, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat; Benalla Regional Gallery, Benalla |
| 2004 | Emboss – ArtPlay, City of Melbourne |
| 2003 | Domesticating Surface, Domesticating Space, The University of Ballarat, Arts Academy Gallery, Ballarat |
| 2001 | Envelop, Linden, St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda |
| 2000 | Offcuts & Castoffs (with Susan Knight), Linden, St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda |
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| | GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
| 2016 | Intoxicating Textiles, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Boston, USA |
| | Superlatives, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Boston, USA |
| | Collected II - Works from the Collection, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta |
| | Seed Stitch - Contemporary Textiles, Warringah Council Creative Space, Sydney |
| 2015 | The Director’s Choice 2015, Gould Galleries, Melbourne |
| | Tactile, Wangaratta Art Gallery in association with Wodonga Art Space, Wodonga |
| 2014 | 38th Alice Prize – Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs |
| | The F Word, Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Ararat |
| | Silhouette, Red Gallery, North Fitzroy |
| | Give Me a Spoon, Atta Gallery, Bangkok, THAILAND |
| | New Textiles, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Boston, USA |
| 2013 | Yering Sculpture Exhibition & Awards, Yering Station Winery & Art Gallery, Yarra Valley |
| | OpShop - Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, NSW |
| | A Piece of Cloth – in conjunction with the L’Oreal Fashion Festival, Gleaner’s Inc. Brunswick |
| 2012 | aRtECYCLE 2012, Walter Burley Griffin Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds |
| | I say doilies; you say doyleys, Gleaner’s Inc. Brunswick |
| | Feather your nest, Craft Victoria, Gleaner’s Inc. Brunswick |
| 2011 | My World: The 3rd International Artist Festival, Zagreb, Croatia |
| 2010 | Fragile, Artpiece Gallery, Mullumbimby (Artscape Biennial), Byron Bay |
| | PETITE miniature Textiles, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta |
| 2008 -10 | Paysage/Voyage, Pfaff 3rd Biennial Art Embroidery Award – Alexandra Palace, London; Hotel De Archevêque De Sens, Library Paris, France; Chatelaudren, Brittany; Museum de Kantfabriek |
| | Momentum, 18th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial 2008, Tamworth Regional Gallery; Tweed River Gallery; Port Macquarie Regional Gallery; Canberra School of Art Gallery; Wagga Wagga Art Gallery; |
| | Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery; Geraldton Regional Gallery; Dubbo Regional Gallery; Hawkesbury Regional Gallery; Riddoch Art Gallery, Mt Gambier |
| 2009 | 10:30, Graduate Research Program 1999-2008 – 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, |
| | The University of Ballarat, Arts Academy Gallery, Ballarat |
| | The Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award, Exhibitions Gallery, Wangaratta |
| | aRtECYCLE, Walter Burley Griffin Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds |
| | Art for Nature, Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia |
| | International Fibre Collaborative Tree Project, Children’s Museum, Alabama |
| 2008 | Fragility in Nature with Suzana Zaper and the University of Melbourne Early Learning Centre, |
| | InSEA World Congress, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan |
| 2006 | Impressions 2006, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne |
| 2005 | Communities, The Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn |
| | Distant Noises, (in collaboration with Rhiannon Kellie and The Print Council of Australia) Manly Art Gallery |
| 2004 | The Robert Jacks Drawing Prize 2004, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo |
| | Impressions 2004, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne |
| | Wall \ Paper, Australian Galleries Works on Paper, Melbourne
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AWARDS / PRIZES / PROFESSIONAL |
| 2014 | 360 Xochi Quetzal Residency – artist residency Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico |
| 2013-14 | Artist residency - St Vincent's Hospital, Caritas Christi Hospice, Kew |
| 2013 | Yering Station Sculpture Award 2013 – Yering Station, Yarra Glen |
| | People’s Choice Award - 2013 Yering Station Sculpture Award, Yarra Glen |
| 2012 | Arts Development Grant, Arts Victoria, Melbourne |
| | aRtECYCLE 2012, People’s Choice Award, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds |
| 2010 | rue de la Roquett, artist research residency, Paris |
| | City of Melbourne Arts Grant, Art Play, Melbourne |
| 2008-14 | Curator, Boorai: The Children’s Art Gallery University of Melbourne Early Learning Centre |
| 2008 | Exhibition Development Grant, Australian High Commission |
| | Singapore Sponsorship Grant, Substation Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2006 | Cultural Trust Travel Grant, The Ian Potter Foundation, Melbourne |
| | Rimbun Dahan Artist Residency, Angela and Hijjas Kasturi, Kuang, Malaysia |
| 2004 | Exhibition Publications Grant, University of Ballarat, Ballarat |
| | ArtPlay Residency Funding, City of Melbourne |
| 2001-02 | Postgraduate Research Scholarship, University of Ballarat, Ballarat |
| 1992 | Acquisitive Art Award, City of Yarra |
| | Pat Corrigan Artist Grant, National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) |
| | Sir Ian Potter Foundation Art Award, Victorian College of the Arts |
| 1990 | Union Arts Grant, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne |
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| | COLLECTIONS |
| | St Vincent’s Hospital Cardiac Centre, Melbourne |
| | The Wesfarmers Collection, Perth |
| | National Gallery of Australia: prints & drawings, Canberra |
| | Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta |
| | Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne |
| | The University of Ballarat, Ballarat |
| | City of Yarra, Richmond |
| | Jessie Street National Women’s Library, Sydney |
| | Matchbox Pictures, Melbourne |
| | Fidelity International Art Collection, Mumbai & Sydney |
| | Rimbun Dahan Art Collection, Malaysia |
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| | BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| | Audas, Jane. Louise Saxton Archivist of Memories, Uppercase Magazine, Canada, Issue 26, 2015 |
| | De Boer, Janet. Louise Saxton: National Assemblage, Embroidery Magazine, UK Issue 66, 2015 |
| | Louise Saxton and Historical Textiles, Marjorlein, Textiel PLUS Magazine, Nederlands, 2014 |
| | Burchill, Louise, Fraser, Virginia, Barnes, Caroline. The F Word – curated by Caroline Philips, exhibition catalogue published by C Philips with Assistance from Arts Victoria, catalogue essay, 2014 |
| | Fehily, Lisa. Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition & Awards - exhibition catalogue, foreward, 2013 |
| | Curran, Tess. A Bird in the Hand, Peppermint Magazine, pgs 96-99, November 2013 |
| | Davies, Fiona + Riley, Margot. OpShop, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, catalogue essay, 2013 |
| | Megalomania – 30 years of the Megalo Print Workshop, Megalo, Canberra ACT |
| | Saxton, Louise. Louise Saxton: Sanctuary, Heide Museum of Modern Art Project |
| | Gallery catalogue; foreword by Jason Smith, Director & CEO Heide, 2012 |
| | Wettenhall, Gib. Sanctuary: the Landscapes within, Craft Arts International #85, pp. 96-98, 2012 |
| | Byron, Jacquie. Louise Saxton: Sanctuary, Get Creative, Spotlight Publications, Melbourne, 2012 |
| | Walton, Inga. Louise Saxton: All that is old is new again, Textile: Fibre Forum, Issue 1, No.97, TAFTA, Queensland 2010 |
| | Broderie et art contemporain: Paysage/Voyage, Envue le Magazine des |
| | Walton, Inga. Louise Saxton: Fantasias of Form, FibreARTS Contemporary Textile |
| | Art and Craft magazine, pp. 24, 25 & 78, Nov/Dec, 2009 |
| | Paysage/Voyage (Landscape–Let us Travel), Pfaff 3rd Biennial Art Embroidery |
| | Award and exhibition catalogue, Govin & Govin, France, 2009 |
| | Saxton, Louise. Salvage, exhibition catalogue essay, Wangaratta Inaugural |
| | Contemporary Textile Award, exhibition catalogue, 2009 |
| | Jones-O’Neill, Dr Jennifer. 10:30- The University of Ballarat Arts Academy |
| | Graduate Research Program 1999-2008; 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition Catalogue, 2009 |
| | Allen, Traudi. Homesickness: Nationalism in Australian Visual Culture, Macmillan Art Publishing, pp.160-163, 166, 2008 |
| | Jordan, Dr Caroline. dot-net-dot-au, exhibition catalogue essay, The Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne |
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