Louise Feneley

Louise Feneley is an artist based in Adelaide, South Australia.

This is a completely new series of paintings (visually a significant departure from the ‘drapery’ paintings for which I am best known) which began in 2011 when I accompanied the Scientific Expedition Group surveying fourteen different sites around Arkaroola in the Northern-Flinders Ranges, South Australia. This trip proved to be profoundly important to the direction of my work in that the experience of this particular landscape – ancient, powerful, mysterious, strange, beautiful, silent, vast – embodies the same sense of the numinous that I have been searching for in my painting for many years.
This place/location/landscape, which I consider the anti-thesis to our western culture in its stillness, its majesty, its mysterious presence, was a reminder that connection to these qualities within oneself are being eroded by the everyday frantic activity present in our culture.  Hence it was the catalyst for the new direction my work has taken.
I feel the land (and nature) needs its story restated, so I have been following this prompt, firstly painting studies followed by major pieces where I felt rock formations as living, ancient, ‘flesh of the earth’ (‘Lost Mother’), and sky as a complementary, numinous world, unpredictable and otherworldly.

Education

2012
Painting Masterclass, Steven Assael, New York
Advanced Drawing Masterclass, Steven Assael, New Yourk

2005
Drawing Masterclass - Godwin Bradbeer

2002
Bachelor of Visual Art with Honours
Adelaide Central School of Art, Norwood, SA

2001
Advanced Diploma of Visual Art
Adelaide Central School of Art, Norwood, SA

1970
Bachelor of Fine Art - Painting
SA School of Art, North Adelaide SA

Solo Exhibitions

2014
'Viewpoint', Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide

2010
'The Painted Veil, which those who live call Life', Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide

2009
Harrison Galleries, Sydney2007
Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne

2006
Harrison Galleries, Sydney

2005
Hill-Smith Fine Art, Adelaide, SA
Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney

2004
Hill-Smith Fine Art

1973
Sydenham Gallery, Norwood, SA

1971
Skillion, North Adelaide, SA

Group Exhibitions

2016
“Length & Breadth”, New Acquisitions from the Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
“Still” Adelaide Central Gallery
Finalist, Eutick Memorial Still Life Award
Finalist, Heysen Prize for Landscape
 

2015

Semi-finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
Finalist, Kennedy Prize
'Still Life' SALA exhibition, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
'Lay of the Land', Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
Finalist, Eutick Memorial Still Life Award
Finalist, Manning Art Prize, 'Naked & Nude'
Finalist, RSASA Portrait Prize
'Provenance' Adelaide Central GAllery

2014
Melbourne Art Fair - Hill Smith Gallery Stand A111
Finalist, Kennedy Prize
Finalist, Eutick Memorial Still Life Award
'Gematria', Adelaide Central Gallery

2013
Finalist, Fleurieu Water & Environment Prize
Finalist, Portia Geach Portrait Award
Finalist, Eutick Memorial Still Life Award
'Roll Call' Hill Smith Gallery

2012
Finalist, Whyalla Art Prize
Loreto Exhibition, Adelaide

2011
Finalist, City of Albany Art Prize
Finalist, Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize
Finalist, Nora Heysen Centenary Prize

2010
Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide

2009
Finalist, Sulman Prize

2008
Melbourne Art air (Hill Smith Gallery)
"Face to Face" National Trust SALA exhibition

2007
Finalist Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
Shades of the Real, Adelaide Central Gallery, Norwood, SA
Blake Prize for Religious Art Touring Exhibition

2006
Finalist, Conrad Jupiter's Art Prize, Gold Coast Art Gallery, Qld
Finalist, Blake Prize for Religious Art Exhibition
Art Sydney 06

2005
Mossgreen Gallery Inaugural exhibition/artist stable launch, South Yarra, Melbourne
ABN Amro Emerging Artist Award Exhibition
Art Sydney 05, represented by Hill-Smith Fine Art, Adelaide & Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney
Blake Prize for Religious Art Touring Exhibition

2004
Blake Prize for Religious Art Exhibition
33rd Alice Prize Exhibition
Drawing Today: Surveying Recent Work by SA Artists, Adelaide Central Gallery, Norwood, SA
Expressing Spirituality through the Visual Arts, St. Peters Cathedral, North Adelaide, SA
Sydney Affordable Art Fair, represented by Hill-Smith Fine Art, SA
Loreto Art Exhibition, Adelaide, SA

2003
Entwined, 3 Artists, Adelaide Central Gallery, SA
Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition, Adelaide
Sydney Affordable Art Fair, Fox Studios, Sydney, NSW

2002
8"x8", ACSA Student Gallery
Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition, Adelaide

2001
Prescriptions for Pleasure, Promenade Gallery, Flinders Medical Centre
A3, Collaborative Drawing Project, Light Gallery, Adelaide
Fragmentation, ACSA Student Gallery
Notations, SALA week exhibition, Adelaide Central

1999
Barossa Fine Art Exhibition, Barossa Vintage Festival

1993
Himeji Sister City Exhibition, Himeji, Japan

1988
Silk, Gunyulgup Galleries, Yallingup, WA

1986
Prominent Women Artists of Western Australia
Bunbury City Regional Art Gallery, WA

1976
Rose Skinner Gallery, Perth, WA

1972
Young Collectables, Melbourne, Victoria

1971
Art Gallery of SA, "Outlook 71"
3 Young Contemporaries, Contemporary Art Society, SA

Grants and Awards

2015
Arts SA Grant for Research & Development

2014
People's Choice Award, EMSLA at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery

2011
Arts SA Grant for Research & Development
People's Choice Award, Nora Heysen Centenary Prize

2006
Conrad Jupiter's Art Prize - People's Choice Award

2004
Tammy Kingsley Award, 33rd Alice Prize Exhibition

2003
Helpmann Academy Mentorship Grant

1986
Bussleton Art Gallery Acquisitive Prize

1970
Liddums Art Gallery Prize
Royal South Australian Society of Arts Prize for Composition

1967-70
Commonwealth Scholarship, SA School of Art

1968
Osborne Art Gallery Prize for Drawing

Collections
The Imago Mundi Collection, Italy
Parliament House, Canberra
The Shurniak Gallery, Canada
Bussleton Regional Art Gallery, WA
Bridgetown Hospital, WA
Colin D. Rowe, Accountants, SA
Private collections - Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Canada and USA