SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Creatures of Comfort North Fitzroy Library, February
2022 Louise Marson Exhibition, Collingwood Yards, hallway of studio 11 Perry street building - Exhibition Details
2021 Breath Studio Dax, September
Bands Collingwood Yards, February
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2023 RMIT Masters of Art (Art in Public Space) Part Time, ongoing
2022 Extraordinary Times Require Extraordinary Art Supporting artists to respond to the climate emergency, invited artist
Climate Change program, City of Yarra
2021 Observational Drawing Course Mr Geoff Dupree, School of Clay and Art
2019 Mosaic Workshops Marian Shaperio, ‘Reverse/Indirect Method’ and ‘Understanding Andamento’
'I am an artist' Arts Access Victoria, 8 week training program
Drawing Katie Roberts, Span Neighbourhood House
Woodcraft and Framing Burnley Backyard, Richmond
Painting, Ceramics and Drawing Manningham Art Studios
Nova Art Hawthorn Community House Open Art Studios
Mosaic Color Workshop Helen Bodycomb, Castlemaine
Mud, Matter and Meaning Mosaic Workshop Kelly Knickerbocker, Rivenworks Mosaics (USA) and Erin Pankratz, (Canada)
Pastel Workshop Lorraine Wigraft, Whitehorse Arts Association
Mosaic Workshop Marian Shaperio, ‘Understanding Values’
2018 Mosaic Workshops Anna Mirabella , Marion Shaperio, Mary Dwyer (USA), Mango Mosaics (UK)
Glass: Slump and Fusion Workshop Jackie Hacansson, Red Door Studio
Ceramics The Bridge, Northcote
Painting Manningham Art Studios
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 A Disability Lens on Climate Emergency CLIMARTE Gallery Melbourne (curated by Louise)
2022 Fragmentation No Vacancy Gallery Melbourne, showing Subterranean and Liquefication
Avoca Arts and Gardens Gallery 127, Avoca
2021 Deity Exhibition Papermill Gallery, Geelong
Animo exhibition - Companion Animals Schizy Inc, Melbourne City Library
The Synergy Project and Unswept Floor Exhibition Lot 19 Gallery, Castlemaine
St. Vincent’s Hospital, Clarendon and Hawthorn Clinics Permanent screening on inhouse TV network in waiting room areas of Clarendon and Hawthorn Clinic ‘Mother Theresa of Kolkata’ and ‘Sardu’
2019 Pax Animo Festival of Illusion Schizy Inc, Lentil as Anything
Axiom: A Reimagined Reality SpACE@Collins, Melbourne
Nature Manningham Art Gallery, Doncaster
Axiom: A Reimagined Reality SpACE@Collins , Melbourne Brotherhood of St Laurence, Arts Access Victoria & Footscray Community Arts Centre
Mental Health Week Camberwell Civic Centre, Camberwell
Let the Earth Speak Brunswick Uniting Church, Brunswick
National Exhibition (By Invitation) Mosaic Association of Australia & New Zealand (MAANZ) Symposium, ACT
30:30 Vision Transformations Botanical Gardens, MAANZ Symposium, ACT
Small Works Salon MAANZ Symposium, ACT
Fire Neighborhood Justice Centre, Collingwood
Home Centre of Theology and Ministry, Carlton
Contemporary by Nature and Virtuous Herring Island Gallery, South Yarra
Sacred Edge Uniting Church, Queenscliff
New Work Dench Cafe, Fitzroy North
International Overdose Awareness Day Exhibition Innerspace, Collingwood
Who’s Looking at You? Portrait Prize Cambridge Studio Gallery, Collingwood (Shortlisted)
2018 Mental Health Week Kew Recreation Centre, Kew
Mental Health Week Camberwell Civic Centre, Camberwell
Pictures in my Head Neon Parlor Gallery, Northcote
Swell Conference The Swell Centre, Hawthorn
Fire Neighborhood Justice Centre, Collingwood
Brunswick Studio Walk 2018 Olive Arts Collective, Brunswick
Lines Di Mase Architects, Fitzroy
2017 Holden Street Neighbourhood House AGM Holden Street Neighbourhood House, Fitzroy North
Doors Project Hawthorn Community House, Hawthorn
State Trustees Connected No Vacancy Gallery, Federation Square
Awake and Abundance of Life Swell Centre, Hawthorn
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2022 No Vacancy/MAANZ Fragmentation Exhibition Innovation Award
Creative Victoria Project Funds awarded for development and public art installation, ‘Corporeal Discards’
City of Yarra Community Grant in collaboration with Innerspace, cohealth. Journey of Feet is a community developed ceramic art work project with some of cohealth’s anonymous clients
2021 MAANZ International Exhibition Lungs - The Space Between the Passages was selected as a finalist in the Mosaic Association
of Australia and Zealand’s international exhibition
2020. Sustaining Creative Workers Creative Victoria grant, R&D of a new series of work titled Threaded Passages
Creative Victoria and City of Melbourne Arts Grant awarded for development and solo exhibition at The Dax Centre, September 2021
St. Vincent’s Hospital, Clarendon and Hawthorn Clinics St. Vincent’s Mental Health Unit Art and Writing Competition, 2nd prize for Mother Theresa of Kolkata and Sardu
2018 Sacred Edge Queenscliff Festival, Victoria People’s Choice Award - Mother Theresa
PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
2019 Mental Health Kit Uniting Church in Australia, Louise’s artwork features on the cover
WORKSHOP FACILITATION
2023 P ARC Mosaic Logo Commission and Community Program Louise completed the commission for the North Fitzroy Prevention and Recovery Care
2022 Craft Victoria, Craft Contemporary Program, Virtual open studio, online artist talk, studio tour and art demonstration
Masterclass- Understanding Smalti, Maestra Carolina Zanelli & Helen Bodycomb Lot 19 Castlemaine
Growing mosaic literacy workshops, MAANZ Meat Market Melbourne
P ARC Mosaic Logo Commission and Community Program Louise is currently working on an art work commission for the St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne for North Fitzroy Prevention and Recovery Care (PARC) titled Planting seeds for a brighter life. Louise is conducting hands-on mosaic workshops PARC clients to create this logo
2018 -19 Mosaic Workshops Cohealth, Collingwood
2019 Brunswick Uniting Church (BUC) Mosaic developed by young people at BUC titled: Let the Earth Speak
Seminars and Conferences
2019 Mosaic Association of Australia & New Zealand Symposium (MAANZ) ACT, September 2019, Online - 2021
Creative State Summit Melbourne Museum
Photograph - Samuel Thomas