Louisa Chircop Australian, b. 1974

Education

2000 Master of Fine Arts Research College of Fine Arts, University of NSW

1997 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours Class 1, College of Fine Arts, University of NSW

1993 Associate Diploma in Fine Arts, St George College of TAFE

Education Scholarships/Awards

1998 Australian Post Graduate Award Scholarship

1997 Chancellor's choice for outstanding achievement UNSW

1993 Basil and Muriel Hooper Scholarship AGNSW

State Commission Medal Highest pass in Fine Arts Diploma NSW TAFE

Highest Achievement Award, St George College of TAFE

Solo Exhibitions

2025 'Grotto Girl', MUŻA National Museum of Art, Valletta, Malta

2023 'Shadow Sanctuary',Marie Gallery5 Gallery and Art Advisory Sliema, Malta

2022 'Nebuchadnezzar Tree Dreaming - Works on paper and Ceramics', Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, Nowra

'In the wake of…', Hurstville Museum and Gallery, Sydney

2020 'Come Shower With Me', The SHAC Gallery, Robertson

2016 'Riversdale Dreaming', PLC Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney

2015 'Interior Monologue - A Carousel' Moran Gallery, Sydney

2015 'Penny for my Thoughts', A-­M Gallery, Sydney

2013 'A Scattering Of Pages', (Art Month artist) A-­M Gallery, Sydney

2012 'Breathing Life Into Pieces', Sheffer Gallery, Sydney

2009 'Dig', Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Sydney

2003 'With A Twist', A‐Space Gallery, Sydney

2000 'Metaphor as Autobiography', Kudos Gallery, Sydney

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 'Summer Salon' , Brenda Colahan Fine Art, Sydney.

'Size is not Important', miniature sculpture exhibition, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

'To Approach the Unknowable' - Four Australian contemporary artists' Surrealist responses to the Hassall Collection curated by Mary Faith Grace, Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney

'Eckersley's National Finalists 60th Anniversary exhibition', Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney

2024 'Revealed: Hidden treasures from the art collection', Curated exhibition - Hurstville Museum and Gallery, Sydney

'Passion for Painting', Marlene Antico's personal selection of National PAP finalists (Online)

'Life in Working Art IV', Broadhurst Gallery, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney

'Hazelhurst Painter Teacher', Broadhurst Gallery, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney

'Women at Altitude' - Celebrating Women artists in the Kedumba Collection, Blue Mountains Grammar School, Wentworth Falls, Sydney

'Kaloskagathos', presented by Palmer Art Projects, Post Space, Exeter

2023 'In the Arms of Unconsciousness - Women, Feminism and the Surreal', A landmark cross-generational exhibition bringing together 21 significant female Australian Artists that examines feminism and the Surreal curated by Carrie Kibbler, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney

'MARA' Second Edition Collective Showcase, Curated by Maria Galea, Bureau Iniala, Valletta, Malta

'Life in Working Art III - Hazelhurst Teachers and Preparators', Broadhurst Gallery, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney

2022  'Exposition Ateliers' - DRAWinternational Artist Residency Exhibition, Caylus, France

'ACB - Selects' , Amber Creswell Bell's Selection from the 'National Emerging Artist Prize', Michael Reid Northern Beaches Gallery (Online)

'In the Flesh'- Invitational Artoure Contemporary Group Exhibition, Comber St Gallery, Sydney
'Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize' - Adelaide Perry Gallery PLC, Sydney

2021 'Life in Working Art II - Hazelhurst Teachers and Preparators', Broadhurst Gallery, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney

'Reciprocity: A collaboration between painters and ceramicists', Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney

'Movers and Shapers II - Women | Land | Sculpture', Broadhurst Gallery Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney

'Splash McClelland Contemporary Watercolour Award', McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Victoria

2020 'Hazelhurst 2020' - Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney

'Exposition Noël_002', Galerie Heimat, St Remy Provence, France

'John Copes Portrait Prize' Bowral Art Gallery, Bowral

'Paddington Art Prize', Defiance Gallery, Sydney

2019 'Exposition Noël_001', Galerie Heimat, St Remy Provence, France

'Everyday Madonna' - curated by Jenny Cheeseman, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney

'Connexions Silencieuses' -curated by Nicky Ginsberg Eglise St Laurent, Eygelières, Provence France

2018 'Movers and Shapers - Women And The Land', Broadhurst Gallery Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney

'The Way We See Ourselves' , curated by Caitlan Casey, Westend Art Space, Melbourne

2017 'Land'-curated by Katherine Roberts, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney

'Artist Profile: Australasian Painters 2007-2017', curated by Kon Gouriotis and Lucy Stranger, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange

'Three Painters', McGlade Gallery ACU, Sydney

'Portia Geach Memorial Award', National Trust SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney

'Fisher's Ghost Art Prize', Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney

2016 'Fisher's Ghost Art Prize', Cambelltown Arts Centre, Sydney

'Art Fair Philippines' - Gajah Gallery, Manila

'Art Stage Singapore' - Gajah Gallery, Singapore

'Vantage Points', Art Month, Art Est, Sydney

2014 'The Democracy of Drawing', (Art Month) AirSpace Projects, Sydney

'Home' Gallery Represented Artists, A‐M Gallery, Sydney

'Fisher's Ghost Art Award', Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney

2013 'Kedumba Drawing Award', Wild Valley Art Park, Wentworth Falls, Sydney'The Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings', Orange Arts and Health, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange

Selected Awards and Prizes

2024 Winner -'Highly Commended - National 'Paddington Art Prize', Art Leven Gallery, Sydney

Finalist - National Acquisitive 'Paddington Art Prize', Cooee Art Leven Gallery, Sydney

Finalist -'Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing', Adelaide Perry Gallery PLC, Sydney

2023 Finalist - National Acquisitive 'Paddington 20th Anniversary Art Prize', Cooee Art Leven Gallery, Sydney

Finalist -'Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award', Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney

2022 Finalist- 'M16 Artspace Drawing Prize', M16 Artspace ,Griffith ACT

Finalist 'Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing', Adelaide Perry Gallery PLC Sydney, Sydney

2021 Winner- 'Highly Commended - Paddington Art Prize',Defiance Gallery, Sydney

Finalist - 'Splash McClelland Contemporary Watercolour Award' (acquisitive), McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Victoria

Finalist - 'Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award', Hazelhurst Arts Centre and Gallery, Sydney

Finalist - 'Milburn Art Prize', Brisbane Institute of Art, Brisbane

Finalist - 'Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing', Adelaide Perry Gallery PLC, Sydney

2020 Winner 'John Copes Portrait Prize', Bowral Art Gallery, Bowral

Finalist - 'Paddington Art Prize', Defiance Gallery, Sydney

Semi Finalist - 'BAM Art Prize'

2019 Recipient -'DRAWinternational Artist-in-Residence Program 2022', Caylus, France

Semi-finalist - 'Doug Moran National Portrait Prize', Sydney

Finalist -'Hazelhurst Art On Paper Award', Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney

2018 Winner - 'NG Art Creative Residency Prize', Eygalières Provence, France

Winner - 'The Vincent Art Prize' (Inaugural) Duckrabbit Gallery, Redfern

Finalist - Open section - 'Fisher's Ghost Art Award', Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney

Finalist - 'BAM Art Prize', Thom Gallery, Byron Bay

2017 Winner- 'Fisher's Ghost James Gleeson Surrealism Award', Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney

Finalist - Portia Geach Memorial Award' National Trust SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney

Finalist - Open Award & Contemporary Awards 'Fisher's Ghost Art Award', Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney

2015 Winner - 'Hazelhurst Works on Paper Friends of Hazelhurst' Prize', Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney

Finalist -Open & Contemporary Awards 'Fisher's Ghost Art Award', Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney

2014 Finalist - Open and Contemporary Awards 'Fisher's Ghost Art Award', Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney

2013 Winner - 'Fisher's Ghost James Gleeson Surrealism Award' (inaugural), Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney

Winner - 'Kedumba Drawing Award Finalist', Wild Valley Art Park, Wentworth Falls, Sydney

Finalist - 'Works on Paper' and 'Contemporary Award', Campbelltown Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney

Finalist - 'Cliftons Emerging Art Prize', Sydney

2012 Finalist -'Dobell Drawing Prize', Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

Finalist - 'Fisher's Ghost Art Award' Open Award & Contemporary Award, Campbelltown Regional Gallery, Sydney

Short-­listed -'Mount Eyre Art Prize', David Rex Livingston Gallery, Sydney

1996 Winner -'Contemporary John Knapp Encouragement Award ' Fisher's Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney (Judged by SMH Art Critic John McDonald)

Artist Residencies

2025 Recipient (awarded) Artist-in-Residence MUŻA Malta National Museum of Art (Malta's National Community Art Museum) Valletta, Malta

2022 Recipient(awarded)DRAWinternational Artist-in-Residence Program, Caylus, France

2020 Recipient (awarded)Georges River Council Artist-in-Residence Program, Sydney

2018 NG Art Creative Residency Prize (winner), Eygèlieres Provence, France

2018 Recipient (awarded) Artist-in-Residence Bundanon Trust

2016 PLC Croydon (invitational) Artist-­in-­Residence, Sydney

Collections

MUŻA National Museum of the Art Malta

The Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawing, Orange Regional Gallery

Grace Cossington Smith Gallery Abbotsleigh Sydney

Cambelltown Arts Centre

Hurstville Museum and Gallery

PLC Sydney, Adelaide Perry Gallery

Michael and Marilyn Reardon-­Small Collection

International Drawing Institute Archive, COFA UNSW

Josef Lebovic Gallery Collection

Domain Milan France

Southern Sydney Institute of TAFE

And private collections in Sydney, France, Singapore, Malta, Indonesia and Hong Kong