Wednesday Talks // Louise Haselton

Join us for a casual Wednesday Talk with Louise Haselton.

Louise Haselton is a visual artist working predominantly with sculpture. Her practice explores the inherent qualities of everyday materials, seeking connections and relationships between seemingly disparate materials and objects gleaned from the world around us.

Haselton was awarded a Bachelor of Visual Art (sculpture) in 1990 from the University of South Australia and in 2002, a Masters of Fine Art (sculpture) from RMIT University, Melbourne. She has undertaken a number of artist residencies including at Sanskri/ Kendra, Delhi, India, Phasmid Studios Berlin, Germany, and Blackstone Art Centre, Papalankutja, Western Australia. She has held solo exhibitions at The Experimental Art Foundation, The Samstag Museum of Art, The Contemporary Art Centre of SA and GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, notably, the pleasurable, the illegible, the multiple, the mundane, ArtSpace, Sydney, curated by Talia Linz, Fabrik: conceptual, minimalist and performative approaches to textiles, The Ian PoZer Museum of Art, Melbourne, curated by Jane O’Neill and North Terrace: worlds in relief, at The Samstag Museum, curated by Jasmin Stephens.

In 2019 Haselton’s practice was the subject of the SALA Wakefield Monograph, titled Act Natural. This publication was accompanied by a major solo exhibition at The Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.

Haselton has had a concurrent career as a visual arts educator. She was employed as a tutor/lecturer in visual art and design at Swinburne University, Melbourne, from 2000-02 and at The University of South Australia 2003 - 20.