APRIL 2022 
FRONT GALLERY

Louise Meuwissen (VIC)
A moment Eternal

Louise Meuwissen’s ongoing series A moment eternal presents intricate, beaded paintings of feelings and phenomena hovering at the edge of the perceptible, on the edge of language. Prayers, offerings, mandalas. These glimmers, manifestations of the elusive, draw upon the power of enduring, intuitive symbology – coalescing, swarming, radiating energy.

“Like a sink hole, a black hole, a vortex, an aura; each work creates a sense of transportation to the unknown, a place or space determined by the viewer’s meditations. Each manifestation (each artwork) suggesting the exploration of deep time, deep thinking. Often with works that require such labour the hand and the subconscious are entwined, the pieces representing a physical realisation, a phenomenon of thought processes. Trapped between space and time, romantic sublime.”
                                                                                                                                                                                               – Debbie Pryor, 2021

Louise Meuwissen is an Australian artist who works with textiles and found materials to make detailed embroidered paintings, sculptures and wearable art. Meuwissen is interested in adornment and decoration, the connections between labour and luxury, and the ways we express ourselves and connect with each other through the objects we choose to collect and discard. Her practice is underpinned by environmental concerns and reverence for nature and her research investigating devotion, the Sublime, hoarding, storytelling and mythology.

Meuwissen has recently exhibited at Sydney Contemporary, Spring 1883, Heide MOMA, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, RMIT Gallery and MARS Gallery. Her works have been shortlisted for the Blake Prize2020, Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award 2019, and The Victorian Craft Awards 2022.