Louise Forthun - CV

Born Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia

Education

2000 Master of Arts in Fine Art, RMIT, Melbourne
1987 Graduate Diploma in Painting, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
1982 Bachelor of Art, Degree in Painting, RMIT, Melbourne

Solo Exhibitions

2007 Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2005 Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2004 Gow Langsford Gallery, Melbourne
Horti Hall Gallery, Melbourne
Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
2000 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1998 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1996 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1994 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1992 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1990 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1987 George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne
1985 Pinacotheca, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions

2004 John Nixon, Imants Tillers & Louise Forthun works on paper, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
2003 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Regional Art Gallery
Viridian Press: Forthun, Tillers & Tomescu, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
2002 Good Vibrations: The Legacy of Op Art in Australia, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
The Hutchins $8,000 Art Prize 2002, The Long Gallery, Hobart
New Drawings, Mass Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Spitting and Biting, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
2000 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery
Celebrating the Exquisite Corpse, Bendigo Art Gallery & Regional Art Gallery tour
2000 Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
1999 Gendai, Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne
Tolarno Galleries at the Moores Building, Perth Festival, Fremantle
1998 Yoin-Reverbrations between Australia and Japan, Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo
& RMIT Storey Hall Gallery, Melbourne
Graphic, Monash University
1997 Fragments-Relation, Gallery Lunami, Tokyo
Screen, Monash University Gallery
Deacons, Graham & James/Arts 21 Aware, University of Melbourne
1996 Metroscape II, Storey Hall, RMIT
Deacons, Graham & James/Arts 21 Award, Ian Potter, University of Melbourne
Geelong Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery
Doug Moran Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Victoria & national tour
1996/5 Vibration, Beijing, Hanoi, Seoul & Melbourne arranged by the Asialink Centre and The Art Gallery of W.A.
1995 Alice Prize, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
1994 The McCaughey Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Baillieu Myer Collection, Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
1993 The Moet & Chandon Traveling Fellowship Exhibition, Australian state tour
The Changing Face of Melbourne, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
1992 The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Adelaide Art Gallery
The Moet & Chandon Traveling Exhibition, Australian state tour
1991 BP Australia Acquisitive Art Prize, Caulfield Art Gallery, Melbourne
No 78, Architectural subjects & No 8, Exultate Jubilate, Store, 5, Melbourne
1990 The Moet & Chandon Traveling Fellowship Exhibition, Australian state tour
Witness, a traveling exhibition curated by Kevin Murray, Melbourne, Hobart, Sydney & Canberra
No. 67 10 animals, arranged by Kathy Temin, Store 5, Melbourne
Scotchman's Hill Vineyard Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery

Awards

2003 City of Melbourne Arts Grant
2001 Creation of New Work Grant, Arts Victoria
2000 Commissioned by the Sydney 2000 Olympics to create a limited edition artist print
1997 Cultural Exchange Program Award, Arts 21 (international) Arts Victoria (group application)
1995 International Travel Grant, Visual Arts & Craft Board, Australia Council (group application)
1991 Tokyo Studio, A 4 month residency in Tokyo-Visual Arts & Craft Board, Australia Council
BP Australia Acquisitive Art Prize, 1st Prize
1989 Project Grant, Visual Arts & Craft Board, Australia Council
1986 National Gallery Women's Association Prize, National Gallery of Victoria

Collections

The National Gallery of Australia
The National Gallery of Victoria
The Queensland Art Gallery
The Art Gallery of NSW
Bendigo Regional Art Gallery
Benalla Regional Art Gallery
Artbank
The State Library of Victoria
BHP
City of Melbourne
BP
The Baillieu Myer Collection
CRA
La Trobe University Collection
The Sam & Minnie Smorgan Collection
Heidi Museum of Modern Art
Monash University Collection
Deakin University Collection
Private collections