During her time as artist in residence, Louise Hamill will produce painted and sculpted works as she attempts to catalog, connect and contain three overarching themes of reality : ancient civilsations, religion and profound environmental impacts.

Incorporating the lurid with the natural, plastic with mineral, ordinary and the unique, Louise seeks to pair such contradicting elements from present and previous time frames as a means to create connections between great distances in time and space.

Do the belief systems from 8,000 , 3,000 , 1,000 years ago inform ours in present day?

Did God smite us with a great flood to wash the earth of heathen sin, or was the flood in fact caused by a comet hitting the earth, vaporising glaciers and rapidly ending an Ice Age (also known as end of the Younger Dryas)?

Perhaps the answer to all these questions is yes.

Louise Hamill (b.1985) is a New Zealand artist based in Perth and Melbourne. Primarily a self taught artist, Louise is active across drawing, painting and sculpture mediums. Her works are a reflection of an on going intrigue between nature, the human condition and the paranormal aspects of our environment and greater realities.

Residencies and exhibitions include: Sugarwoood, The Whitely Room for City of Gosnells, Perth 2019, studio residencies at Midland Junction Art Centre 2018, 2017, Light Locker Project for City of Perth 2014, Insert Coin Here, MIFF, Melbourne 2010, Mikala Dwyer Monoclinic, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington 2008