Curriculum Vitae
Louise Wells
Formal Art Education:
1984 – 1985 Traineeship at Fremantle Art Centre with Kate Weedon-Jones
1983 Associate Diploma, Textiles, WAIT (Western Australian Institute of Technology, Now Curtin University)
Juried Exhibitions
2022 Australia Wide 8, OZ Quilt Network (Touring exhibition Australia)
2021 York Botanic Art Awards, Finalist, York WA
2021 Art Quilt Australia 2021: Yarra Ranges Regional Museum, Victoria
2021 Art Quilt Australia 2021, Finalist, Nowra NSW
2021 City of Stirling Art Awards, Finalist
2021 Minnawara Art Awards 2021, Finalist
2020 Australian Textile Art Awards, Finalist, Malvern Victoria
2020 Collie Art Prize CAP, Finalist, Collie WA
2020 Art Quilt Australia 2019:Yarra Ranges Regional Museum, Victoria
2019 Sculptures on the Scarp, Darlington Arts Festival, Darlington.
2019 City of Stirling Art Awards
2019 Stitched and Bound, Zig Zag Gallery, Kalamunda & Lake Grace Regional Art Space
2019 Art Quilt Australia 2019: National Wool Museum, Geelong, Victoria
2019 Cultura Diffusa, Como Italy
2019 International Fiber Arts IX, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA USA
2019 Minnawarra Art Awards, Armadale WA
2018 Wearable Art Mandurah (WAM) Finalist
2018 Petite Miniature Textiles : Wangaratta Art Gallery, Victoria
2018 Art Quilt Australia 2017: Yarra Ranges Regional Museum, Victoria
2017 Art Quilt Australia 2017: Queen Victoria Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
2017 Wearable Art Mandurah (WAM) Alcoa Mandurah Art Gallery, Mandurah
2017 Stitched and Bound, Zig Zag Gallery Kalamunda WA
2017 Wearable Art Mandurah (WAM) Winner, Avant-Garde Category
2016 Australia Wide 5, OZ Quilt Network (Touring exhibition Australia & USA)
2016 twentyONE+ presented by WAFTA, Spectrum Project Space, Mt Lawley WA
2016 Common Threads Wearable Art Awards – Finalist
2015 Art Quilt Australia 2015: National Wool Museum, Geelong, Victoria
2015 Common Threads Wearable Art, CASM, Mandurah
2014 Stitched and Bound – Back to the Razors Edge, Heathcote Gallery, Applecross WA
2014 Common Threads Wearable Art Awards – Finalist
2012 Stitched and Bound, Heathcote Gallery, Applecross WA
Solo Exhibitions
2022 It’s a Matter of How You Look at Things, collaboration with Anne Williams, Mundaring Arts Centre, Mundaring WA
2021 Suburban Secrets – Art Trail & History Walk, Inglewood WA
2018 Of Our Time – Ordinary Lives, Midland Junction Arts Centre
2014 Belles, Collaborative exhibition with Josh Wells, Hyde Park, WA
1987 Albany, Western Australia
Selected Group Exhibitions (Australia)
2021 The Second Best Time is Now, Mundaring Arts Centre
2021 HOLD, Midland Junction Arts Centre, Midland WA
2021 Material Things, Guest Artist Tenfold Textile Collective, Black Cat Gallery, VIC
2020 The Patterning Habit, Lost Eden Gallery, Dwellingup, WA
2020 Tied Up With String, Mundaring Arts Centre, Mundaring WA
2020 Hanging by a Thread, Holmes a Court Gallery, West Perth
2018 Worn Out Worn Art, Midland Junction Arts Centre, WA
2018 Worn Art Revamped, Theatre Kimberley, Broome – Overall Runner Up
2017 City of Stirling Art Awards – Highly Commended
2017 Altered States, Perth Town Hall WA & touring regional WA
2016 Worn Art Revamped, Theatre Kimberley, Broome – Category winner
2016 Memory and Commemoration, WAFTA. Lake Grace & Busselton
2014 Hidden Revealed Transformed, Showcase Gallery, Perth WA
2014 WAFTA Biennale Exhibition, Geraldton, WA
2013 Mysterium, Gallery Central, Perth WA
2011 InTension, Moores Building, Fremantle WA
2009 Naturally, Moores Building, Fremantle WA
Awards
2018 Worn Art Revamped, Theatre Kimberley, Broome – Overall Runner Up
2017 City of Stirling Art Awards, Highly Commended
2017 Wearable Art Mandurah (WAM) Winner, Avant-Garde Category
2016 Worn Art Revamped, Theatre Kimberley, Broome – Category winner
Collections
City of Stirling
Melville City Council Textile Collection
Alannah MacTiernan MP
Various Private collections