Between appearances: the art of Louise Weaver

Featuring fantastical creatures, iridescent other worlds, uncanny objects and unsettling organic forms Between appearances: the art of Louise Weaver explored the multidisciplinary practice of one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists.

While Weaver is best known for her whimsical, thought-provoking sculptures of animals, Between appearances featured more than 100 works in an array of media including sculptural installations, paintings, drawings, printmaking, collage, textiles, movement and sound. The exhibition spanned three decades of the artist’s practice and reveals Weaver’s longstanding interests in fields as diverse as visual culture, art history, natural history, science and design.

Absorbed in particular by the dynamics and fragility of the natural world and environmental concerns, Weaver has a fascination with cycles of growth, metamorphosis and the intricacies of camouflage. Her work plays with these concepts and extends them into ideas surrounding artificiality and transformation, social themes and feminism, underpinned by the enduring power of mythology, make-believe and memory.

Curated by Melissa Keys, Between appearances unfolded across all four of the galleries at Buxton Contemporary. It traced her gradual shift from early figurative forms and compositions through to abstract paintings, objects and sound environments, comprising an overview of Weaver’s richly imaginative, critical and compelling work from the early nineties through to the present.

This exhibition was the second major monographic exhibition at Buxton Contemporary celebrating a highly regarded artist represented in the Michael Buxton Collection at the University of Melbourne.

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Between appearances: the art of Louise Weaver

Between appearances: the art of Louise Weaver is assembled as a series of encounters that trace the artist’s gradual shift from early figurative forms and compositions through to abstract paintings, objects and sound environments. It presents an overview of Weaver’s richly imaginative, critical and compelling output from the 1980s through to the present.

Author & Editor: Melissa Keys

Developed with the support of the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Between appearances: the art of Louise Weaver Buxton Contemporary University of Melbourne
15 November 2019 – 9 February 2020

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Louise Weaver’s new work has been developed with the generous support of the Australia Council. The artist is represented by Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney.