History is a variable narrative
Louise Tate
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March 2018
29
March
2018
13
April 2018
7UP
Imagining hybridised pictures of history, History is a variable narrative is the result of a six-week artist residency in Kyneton, VIC undertaken late last year. Juxtaposing imagery of historic colonial architecture, ancient Greek monuments and the rugged landscape of the Macedon region, the work examines the ways in which we physically define our past. The Georgian pillars of the Castlemaine Market Building become homage to the worn and aging columns of the Acropolis; Athenian vase paintings are a backdrop for century-old scenes of a “Modern Australia.” These paintings embrace the ontology of paint in order to tell an alternate tale of Australian history.
Imagining hybridised pictures of history, History is a variable narrative is the result of a six-week artist residency in Kyneton, VIC undertaken late last year. Juxtaposing imagery of historic colonial architecture, ancient Greek monuments and the rugged landscape of the Macedon region, the work examines the ways in which we physically define our past. The Georgian pillars of the Castlemaine Market Building become homage to the worn and aging columns of the Acropolis; Athenian vase paintings are a backdrop for century-old scenes of a “Modern Australia.” These paintings embrace the ontology of paint in order to tell an alternate tale of Australian history.
Louise Tate
Louise Tate is an artist who lives and paints on Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne). Her work explores painting as a care practice; the degradation of the natural environment due to climate change; and how imagined utopian worlds can suggest gentler ways of coexisting with the world around us.Louise has recently held solo exhibitions at Jan Murphy Gallery, Sophie Gannon Gallery, and Boom Gallery. Recent group exhibitions include Bayside Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, and the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane/Meanjin. Louise won the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize in 2023, and has previously been a finalist in a number of prizes including the Omnia Art Prize (2023), Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize (2021), the McClelland Splash Contemporary Watercolour Award (2021), the Hopper Prize (2020), the churchie national emerging art prize (2019), among many others. She has participated in artist residencies at Hôtel Sainte Valière in the south of France (2022), the NARS Foundation in New York (2019), and Kyneton in regional Victoria (2017), which was supported by the Macfarlane Fund. Louise is currently undertaking a Master of Fine Art (Research) at Monash University, for which she has been awarded a Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend.