Louise Gresswell

6th international biennale of non objective art

Que des femmes/Only women
Melbourne virtual satellite
Hosted by Art Thoughts AU at Yarra Bend Gallery
September 22 - 19 November

Investigating her own subjectivity and its relationship to vulnerability and protection, Gresswell explores the materiality of paint. Textural paintings form sensory narratives as the painted boards are broken and reformed.

The debris of the studio is utilised as holes are patched and cracks are filled with whatever is at hand, string, canvas, hessian and cardboard. There is an act of defiance in the cutting and an implied comfort within the suturing.

Gresswell is a Melbourne Based artist. After studying a BA (hons) in Textile Design at Chelsea College of Art, London, Gresswell went on to complete her Master of Fine Art studies, with Distinction, from RMIT, Melbourne (2017).

Untitled (dark grey), 2020, oil on board, 35 x 27cm.

Spring1883 2021

Aug 4 – 29


‘The seventh edition of Spring1883 takes place at satellite spaces across Melbourne from 4-29 August 2021.

Spring1883 is a young and exciting gallerist-led art fair that presents the best of contemporary art practice from Australia and New Zealand.

Spring1883 was established in 2014 by Geoff Newton (Director, Neon Parc), Vikki McInnes and Kate Barber (Directors, Sarah Scout Presents) and Vasili Kaliman (art advisor), and launched at The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne in August 2014.’ Artsy


Selected work



Nicholas Thompson Gallery

Antonia Sellbach, Framework relief # 1, 2021.
Acrylic on Victorian Ash, 200 x 240 x 60 cm.

Gallery9

Louise Gresswell, Untitled (green), 2021.
Oil on board, 35 x 27 cm.

LON Gallery

Tia Ansell, Miles, 2021.
 Acrylic on cotton and wool weaving, 83 x 63 x 6 cm.

Artereal Gallery

Luke Ryan O’Connor, Polychrome Barrel Vessel, Green and Yellow, 2021.
Stoneware, Glaze, Gold Lustre, 28 x 18 x 18 cm.

Blackartprojects

Madeleine Preston, Self Portrait, 2020.
Glazed and sandblasted raku, 34 x 12 x 14 cm.

Mars Gallery

Eliza Gosse, On the Patio Munching on Smiths’ Chips Carpet, 2020.
Wool and canvas, 28.5 x 23.5 x 2 cm.

Neon Parc

Teelah George, Petal, 2021.
Thread, linen, bronze, 123 x 100 cm.

Louise Gresswell

Untitled, 2016, acrylic, stitch and found zip, 45 x 40 cm.

Melbourne based artist Louise Gresswell originally trained at the Chelsea College of Arts, London. She is currently completing an MFA at RMIT University. In this series she was experimenting with soaked canvas.