Working primarily with paint, Louise Walder focuses her attention on rediscovering the ordinary in the everyday. Her analysis of abstraction and exploration of colour captures fleeting moments, such as the shadows created through architectural spaces, highlighting textural differences between natural and manufactured structures and surfaces.

Louise record patterns and lines using the medium of photography, providing her with inspiration to employ bold mark making techniques and gesture in her paintings, delineating space and creating composition. Through her investigation of the commonplace, Louise explores how the application of chromatic juxtaposition can create a genuine emotional connection.

Exhibitions

2024

2023

2022

Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Award, Salon Des Refusés, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington QLD Australia

Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy VIC Australia

Lethbridge Landscape Prize, Finalist, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington QLD Australia

Abstraction, Petrie Terrace Gallery, Brisbane QLD Australia

Lethbridge 20 000 Small Scale Art Award, Salon Des Refusés, Lethbridge Gallery, Paddington QLD Australia

Fairholme Open Art Competition, Toowoomba QLD Australia

Emergence: An Artistic Exploration of Quantum Science, M2 Art Space, Sydney NSW Australia

Second Rising, Grey Street Gallery, Brisbane QLD Australia